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- Breaking News: Federal Judge Threatens To Hold Irs Commissioner, Doj Lawyers In Contempt Of Court Over Lerner
IRS Commissioner, John Koksukaman From Judicial Watch: (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys...
- Just In Case You Still Wondered Whose Side Cair Is On
The Council on American-Islamic Relations states that its Mission is to: CAIR's mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual...
- Islamic Group Won't Get A Chair At Temple University
Good news from Philadelphia. Temple has rejected donations from an Islamic front group that Sami al-Arian may have been connected with: Last spring, an Islamic group came to Temple University with an extremely generous offer: $1.5 million for an endowed...
- Speaking Truth To Evil: "your Only Connection To Widows And Orphans Is That You Create Them"
The judge in the Sami al-Arian trial gave little Sami quite a lecture today: TAMPA - U.S. District Judge James Moody imposed the maximum sentence on Sami Al-Arian Monday, calling the former university professor a "master manipulator'' who led...
- Now It's Official: Al-arian Confesses His Ties To Jihad
But it seems to be simply because of a plea bargain he's getting, that'll enable him to just be deported. From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Jihad Watch): Details of Sami Al-Arian's plea agreement emerged Monday after a federal judge...
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Is The Judge In The Al-Arian Terror-Financing Case Trying To Avoid Handing Down an Opinion?
That's Going to be Some Order.
(IPT).U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema made a pledge a year ago today.She would decide whether the criminal contempt case against Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) operative Sami Al-Arian would be dismissed or go to trial. Prosecutors charged Al-Arian in 2008 after he repeatedly refused to speak to a federal grand jury investigating terror financing in Northern Virginia despite a subpoena and judges' orders.Read the full story here.
Al-Arian says he was absolved of complying with any subpoena in his 2006 plea agreement for conspiracy to provide services to the PIJ.There is nothing in Al-Arian's plea agreement alluding to anything close to his claim, prosecutors argue.
And nothing was mentioned when he entered his plea before a federal magistrate in Tampa. The argument has been denied by appellate courts for the 4th and 11th circuits.Brinkema canceled a hearing on the matter at the 11th hour last year.
"The Court finds that a hearing on these issues is not necessary," she wrote. "The parties have fully briefed their positions and the Court is working on an opinion which addresses all relevant issues."That's funny, because Brinkema said something very similar in cancelling a hearing 18 months earlier:
"Because the parties have fully briefed the facts and legal contentions raised in the defendant's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment and have previously argued similar issues before the Court, additional oral argument will not aid the decisional process …
The Court will issue a written opinion on the motion in the near future."That was 919 days ago. The court has been silent.
Al-Arian is confined to house arrest at the home of one of his children in Northern Virginia, either the victim of a misguided prosecution or as a man who got away with breaking the law.Brinkema clearly doesn't like the case, but can't dismiss it based on the merits. She has written twice that an order is coming.
Given the time that has passed, it's fair to ask whether she ever intended to act. Is that the proper behavior for a federal judge?
- Breaking News: Federal Judge Threatens To Hold Irs Commissioner, Doj Lawyers In Contempt Of Court Over Lerner
IRS Commissioner, John Koksukaman From Judicial Watch: (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys...
- Just In Case You Still Wondered Whose Side Cair Is On
The Council on American-Islamic Relations states that its Mission is to: CAIR's mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual...
- Islamic Group Won't Get A Chair At Temple University
Good news from Philadelphia. Temple has rejected donations from an Islamic front group that Sami al-Arian may have been connected with: Last spring, an Islamic group came to Temple University with an extremely generous offer: $1.5 million for an endowed...
- Speaking Truth To Evil: "your Only Connection To Widows And Orphans Is That You Create Them"
The judge in the Sami al-Arian trial gave little Sami quite a lecture today: TAMPA - U.S. District Judge James Moody imposed the maximum sentence on Sami Al-Arian Monday, calling the former university professor a "master manipulator'' who led...
- Now It's Official: Al-arian Confesses His Ties To Jihad
But it seems to be simply because of a plea bargain he's getting, that'll enable him to just be deported. From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Jihad Watch): Details of Sami Al-Arian's plea agreement emerged Monday after a federal judge...