Even Saddam Hussein gets his own lawyer. |
He looks forward to defending himself. |
He will continue to work hard to fully cooperate with the Department of Justice and law enforcement agencies and to make restitution to all victims. This is the course he set out many months ago and the course he intends to follow and complete no matter how long it takes. |
I think that's just government stonewalling. It's more of the same decision not to allow any details of NSA domestic surveillance to get out. |
If he pleads guilty, then there's a feather in the cap of the prosecution quickly, |
is whether those standards need changing. |
It certainly is in everybody's interest to keep these issues confidential. |
It was a very pro forma hearing, just the formal entry of his not guilty plea, |
It was a very pro forma hearing, just the formal entry of his not guilty plea. |
It's not our intention to bring any details of cooperation. All we're asking for is a sentence at the bottom of the guidelines. |
Suffice it to say, we vigorously disagree with the allegations and will be ready when they get to court. |
The government will dismiss the remaining counts of the Miami indictment at the time of sentencing and will also recommend that the sentence imposed in the Miami case run concurrently to any sentence imposed as a result of charges filed today in the District of Columbia. |
We are not trying to limit the President's ability to go after terrorists. |
We do not say surveillance should be stopped, only that it comply with the law. |
We should stand shoulder to shoulder with the president in our desire to fight terrorism in this country and around the world, but we cannot allow the Constitution and our rights to become victim to our fight against terrorism. |