If, as Tenet says in his memoir, it was the Aug. 6, 2001, PDB that prompted his visit on Aug. 17, what might have brought him back on Aug. 24?I believe the answer is to be found in court documents released at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the fledgling pilot in Minnesota interested in learning to steer a plane but indifferent as to how to land it.Those documents show that on Aug. 23, 2001,
Man roused in baby formula theft PORTSMOUTH — Touching litigation sworn testimony from Bobbie Jean ( Powers ) Standley in the District Inspector on Tuesday, prosecutor Corey MacDonald ordered a warrant for her grab on a felony count of perjury.
Standley testified Thursday during probable originate legal process of her control, Jeffrey [...]
John Torkelsen, a damages expert who made millions of dollars as an expert witness in numerous business lawsuits, plead guilty to perjury on Thursday. He admitted that he lied about how he was paid in a securities class-action case. Torkelsen...
The so-called culture of corruption that the Democrats labeled Republicans with before the 2006 election has been catching up with Democrats lately. Just two weeks ago we had the Eliot Spitzer debacle followed by the ongoing disgrace of his replacement, and now we have a Democrat Mayor charged with perjury. Of course if there is [...]
Lawhawk and I saw this at about the same time. In an Associated Press report on a perjury indictment for Kwame Kilpatrick, reporter Corey Williams leaves a little something out of the story. Guess which political party Kilpatrick represents?
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit’s youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury [...]
Filipina actress Clauding Baretto was charged of Libel and Perjury by her former personal assistant. Before that the pinay actress Claudine filed a complaint to her personal assistant for qualified theft last January because of Claudine's personal belongings were stolen worth 300,000 pesos and important documents. But this was not true according to her personal assistant and there were no things stolen.Medias waiting to hear the side of pinay actress.
John Torkelsen, a damages expert who made millions of dollars as an expert witness in numerous business lawsuits, recently agreed to plead guilty to perjury. He admitted that he lied about how he was paid in a securities class-action...
"Stay with me please", is what Barry Bonds is saying after being accused of using illegal supplements to obtain his title.MLB's leading slugger was indicted yesterday in the bay area charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Did he lie to a grand jury about using steroids saying that he never took "performance-enhancing drugs"? Maybe he should have stuck to good old Antioxidants. ;-)According to the indictment,"During the criminal investigation, evidence was obtained including positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances for Bonds and other athletes".And it even seems that he lied to his personal trainer as well...Do you think fans will bury Barry this time? --- I think he will continue waving, the questions is where from?Add to Red
Barry Bonds, the former San Francisco Giant who broke Hank Aaron’s 755 home run record last year and hitting a career total 762 home runs, was indicted on Thursday on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice.
Bonds is accused of lying under oath before a federal grand jury in 2003 when he denied using banned drugs. The indictment states that Bonds lied when he stated under
The Sandiganbayan Special Division on Wednesday found former president Joseph Estrada guilty beyond reasonable doubt for the crime of plunder but acquitted him for the lesser crime of perjury.Winding up a six-year trial that the 70-year-old had repeatedly insisted was politically motivated, the anti-graft court ruled that Estrada was guilty of plundering billions of pesos in tobacco excise tax kickbacks and bribes and sentenced him to reclusion perpetua."Accordingly accused former president Joseph Estrada is hereby sentenced to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua and accessory penalties of civil interdiction during the period of sentence and perpetual absolute disqualification," the decision read.It added: "The period within accused former president Joseph Ejercito Estrada has been under detention shall be credited to him in full as long as he agrees voluntarily in writing to abide by the same disciplinary rules imposed upon convicted prisoners."The anti-graft court, however, acqu
Justice prevails, Cheney weeps.
Bush doesn’t understand irony.
Did Obama already close the gap?
Stem cells will change modern medicine… in countries that believe in science.
Federal Appeals Court: fleeting obscenities = fair play.
Bloomberg: 1 - NYC: 0
Happy birthday to Bill Moyers, IMHO, one of the best journalists around. If you haven’t yet, watch his latest documentary, Buying the War.
Show me what you’re workin’ with.
Today in Canadian History
June 5,1935…
…more than 1,000 unemployed men began a mass march, commandeering railway freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia. What ensued is called the On to Ottawa protest trek, picking up passengers in Calgary, Medicine Hat, Swift Current and Moose Jaw. The men were eventually stopped at the Regina, Saskatchewan station, at which time they numbered over 20,000. The strike was called off after fruitless talks with Ottawa. In July of the same year the men rioted over the arrest of their leade
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation.Libby was convicted in March of lying and obstructing an investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.The highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since the Iran-Contra affair, Libby has steadfastly maintained his innocence."It is respectfully my hope that the court will consider, along with the jury verdict, my whole life," Libby said in brief remarks to the judge.Walton fined Libby $250,000 and placed him on probation for two years following his release from prison. Walton did not immediately address whether Libby could remain free pending appeal.With letters of support from several former military commanders and White House and State Department officials, Libby asked for no jail time. His supporters cited a government career in which Libby helped win the Cold War and the first
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby outside a U.S. Federal Courtroom on March 6, 2007. I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was found guilty of lying, obstruction of justice, and perjury today by a federal jury. He was convicted on counts that he lied about his role in the leak of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame. The Libby trial lasted a total of 4 weeks and jury deliberations lasted 10 days. Libby was chief of staff to Vice President Dick Chaney who resigned once he was indicted in this case. He was found guilty on 4 of the 5 counts against him. He was found guilty on two counts of perjury, one count of making false statements, and one count of obstruction of justice. He was found innocent on one count of lying to the FBI. Libby’s defense was that it was a lapse of memory in what he told the FBI and investigators and that he did not mean to lie. They said that he had a bad memory and that he did not remember what he had said about Plame because of his because sc
{mosgoogle right}Former top Defense Ministry bureaucrat Takemasa Moriya has decided to plead guilty to bribe-taking and perjury during his first court hearing on Monday, sources close to him have revealed.Moriya, 63, former administrative vice defense minister, is to appear at the Tokyo District Court on Monday along with three former executives of defense contractor Yamada Corp., including former senior managing director Motonobu Miyazaki, 69, who is under indictment for bribing h [...]
{mosgoogle right}Former top Defense Ministry bureaucrat Takemasa Moriya pleaded guilty to charges of accepting bribes and giving false testimony in the Diet as his trial opened in the Tokyo District Court on Monday."The allegations are as stated," the 63-year-old former administrative vice defense minister said in the hearing. However, Moriya said there were still "some doubts" about the amount he was accused of receiving in the form of one-day golf outings.Meanwhile, Mo [...]
