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Whistleblower Case Raises New Issues for Terror Trial

The American Lawyer

October 11, 2004

One day after the DOJ acknowledged errors in its prosecution of three Detroit-area immigrants and asked a judge to dismiss its first big trial victory in the war on terror, government attorneys submitted their brief, word for word, in a case in Washington, D.C. That second submission -- a response to a whistleblower complaint by the terror case's prosecutor -- might just turn the DOJ apology from an act of principle to one of scapegoating. The document savages the prosecutor's work.

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