Court Throws Out Ex-CIA Man's Conviction

[Nambe]

HOUSTON (AP)

A federal judge has thrown out former CIA officer Edwin P. Wilson's 1983 conviction for selling arms to Libya, saying the federal government used false evidence and suppressed other evidence that would have helped him.

Wilson, who is in his mid-70s, was accused of shipping 20 tons of C-4 plastic explosives from Houston to Libya and is serving a 52- year prison sentence. ---

In a scathing opinion released Tuesday, U.S. Judge Lynn N. Hughes said the federal government made no corrections to an affidavit about Wilson's activities that the government admitted internally was false.

"Confronted with its own internal memoranda, the government now says that, well, it might have misstated the truth, but that it was Wilson's fault, it did not really matter, and it did not know what it was doing," the judge wrote in a 24-page ruling. ---

Banish bush From Texas Too

[schrodinger_I]

1. What about Jonathan Pollard?

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[pinerow]

3. What about Jonathan Pollard?

What makes him so special...?

[DUreader]

2. Thanks for the link, Nambe.

Glad to see you posting again.

[0007]

4. Nice to hear from you Namba,

missed ya!

[zbdent]

5. Hmmm, Reagan era. Nope. Can't be true. You can TRUST saint

Ronnie. He'd never allow something like that to happen!

Especially when the former head of the CIA was his Veep.

[schrodinger_I]

6. Similar Case

Suppressed evidence.....etc. It is funny how people can do things and then just "get off".