Bush Success-War on Terror-U.S. Seeks to Dismiss Terror Convictions

[papau]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&ncid=716&e=4&u=/ap/20040901/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_trial

U.S. Seeks to Dismiss Terror Convictions(Justice conduct problem)
dropping of the terrorism charges leaves the government with "a garden-variety document case"

By JOHN SOLOMON and CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON - In a dramatic reversal, the Justice Department (news - web sites) acknowledges its original prosecution of a suspected terror cell in Detroit was filled with a "pattern of mistakes and oversights" that warrant the dismissal of the convictions.

In a 60-page memo that harshly criticizes its own prosecutors' work, the department told U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen on Tuesday night it supports the Detroit defendants' request for a new trial and would no longer pursue terrorism charges against them. The defendants at most would only face fraud charges at a new trial.

The Justice Department is "concurring in the defendants' motions for a new trial" and asks the court to dismiss the first count of the original indictment charging the defendants with material support of terrorism, the government's filing said.

The reversal comes during the buildup to President Bush (news - web sites)'s nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, where he and his allies have been touting their success in the war on terror. <snip>

[Cocoa]

1. maybe this was what Bush meant

we can't win the war on terror because of fuckups like John Ashcroft.

[papau]

2. Sure makes for a good pundit article - if they all were not on their knees

:-)