Moussaoui should die because he allowed the plot to proceed

* "(Moussaoui 's) Defense attorneys will try to exploit that by probing the sensitive underside of the government's failure to stop the attacks. They will argue that U.S. officials knew far more about al-Qaeda's plans than Moussaoui did, according to court documents. Even if Moussaoui had told all he knew, the defense says, the government's own failures show that agents would not have acted properly on the information... Prosecutors will argue, court documents say, that Moussaoui should die because he allowed the plot to proceed by lying to the FBI and that his deception was a direct cause of the deaths." (link)
hmm - now wouldn't that be an interesting precedent! paging sibel...

* josh covers the AJC story that Ralph Reed lobbied, and lied about it, for eLottery. some of my readers have a special dislike for Ralph - let's hope 1) he doesn't get elected 2) he goes to jail 3) his god forsakes him

* the nyt covers the AIPAC case, but mostly from the perspective of the dangers it might portend for journalists.

* glenn steps in to emphasize the dangers (of the AIPAC case) to investigative journalists: "So, to recap: We have to become a country where we imprison journalists who expose actions by our political officials which the politicians want to keep secret. If we don't, we may lose our freedoms. And we can't have that."

* emptywheel notes glenn's piece, but wants to separate out AIPAC from the attack on journalists: "Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman are accused of passing the classified information they got from Larry Franklin to journalists. But they also accused of passing information to Naor Gilon, then head of politics at the Israeli Embassy. The leak seems to have been designed to give Israel an inside perspective onto US deliberations on Iran (an area where our interests certainly don't coincide exactly with Israel's), so Israel could better push us into a confrontational stance against Iran. This is spying."