Just freaking unbelievable. I
diaried on this subject a few weeks ago. The Ashcroft DoJ has been in a pissing match with the U.S. Attorney's office in Detroit based on their (Ashcroft's) withholding of evidence and whistle blowing charge by Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Convertino over his concerns that DoJ was impeding the prosecution.
Some snips
From today's story:
"The Justice Department has asked a judge to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, reversing course in a case the Bush administration once hailed as a major victory in the war on terrorism, legal sources said Tuesday.
The department told U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen that it supports the Detroit defendants' request for a new trial and would no longer pursue charges of material support of terrorism. That means the defendants at most would only face fraud charges at a new trial, the legal sources said.
The department's decision came after a months-long independent investigation uncovered several pieces of evidence that prosecutors failed to turn over to defense lawyers before the trial last year and exposed deep disputes within the government over the course of the case and the quality of the prosecution's evidence."
Yet more evidence that the current administration is incapable of fighting (much less winning) the so called war on terror.