Well, I know no one cares today given all the hype about the primaries today, but the feds have once again overreached to nail a "terrorist". This time their effort to nail a "terrorist" blew up in their face. Here's boing boing's succinct summary:
A judge dismissed charges against Steve Kurtz, professor and member of the Critical Art Ensemble, who has been in a four year legal battle after police discovered biological lab equipment and harmless bacteria in his home. The cops were at his house because he called 911 to report that his wife had died of heart failure. He had the biological gear and specimens for an art project. Kurtz was initially investigated for bioterrorism but later indicted for mail and wire fraud.
So they decided to charge him with something else and that blew up as well.
U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara ruled that the 2004 mail and wire fraud indictment against Steven Kurtz, a University at Buffalo professor, was "insufficient on its face..."
Feel safer?