{"id":1375,"date":"2004-09-08T03:14:58","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T08:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/there-was-a-detroit-terror-cell\/"},"modified":"2004-09-08T03:14:58","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T08:14:58","slug":"there-was-a-detroit-terror-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/there-was-a-detroit-terror-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"there was a detroit terror cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>several days ago,  i wrote a bit about <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/the_sleeper_cell_that_wasnt.html\">the sleeper cell that wasn&#8217;t<\/a>,  and i closed with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>either there was a real detroit sleeper cell planning terrorist attacks,  and my justice department screwed up the prosecution so badly that they&#8217;ll be out on the streets in a few years, or there wasn&#8217;t a real detroit sleeper cell, in which case my justice department spun its wheels trying to make terrorist charges stick where no terrorists exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>today, i found a <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20040907_1734.html\" class=\"broken_link\">story<\/a> from the associated press that describes an <a href=\"http:\/\/wid.ap.org\/documents\/fbi\/040907terror.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">email<\/a> [pdf] from special agent in charge daniel roberts on the subject.  he asserts that the fbi &#8220;acted aggressively and worked very hard on this case in an effort to prevent a terrorist attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>taking daniel roberts at his word &#8211; and i have no reason to doubt the integrity or intent of the fbi or mr. roberts &#8211; i guess this means i have the answer: the justice department (and by this i mean attorney general ashcroft&#8217;s justice department) botched the prosecution of terrorists.  i guess it&#8217;s a good thing these terrorists can be charged with something other than terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>so there was a detroit terror cell?  or shouldn&#8217;t i just accept the fbi view?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>several days ago, i wrote a bit about the sleeper cell that wasn&#8217;t, and i closed with this: either there was a real detroit sleeper cell planning terrorist attacks, and my justice department screwed up the prosecution so badly that they&#8217;ll be out on the streets in a few years, or there wasn&#8217;t a real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}