Posts Tagged ‘cleared’
Boston bombing suspect interviewed by Obama’s FBI and Cleared in 2011
On April 19, the FBI revealed that its investigators interviewed deceased terrorist and Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 for possible ties to extremist groups, yet released him after they failed to uncover any direct evidence to bring official charges, according to CBS News. The formal in-person interview of Tamerlan Tsarnaev was initially denied by FBI, according to CBS News, which further complicates the controversy for President Barack Obama’s Justice Department as revelations from the terrorist’s mother contradicted the earlier official denial. The FBI interview was conducted after being requested by an unspecified foreign government, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. A report on the Russia Today website contained portions of an interview with the dead [...]
Saudi National Cleared in Boston Bombing
Saudi National Cleared in Boston Bombing Fox news and CNN are reporting that Federal law enforcement official confirms that the Saudi national has been “ruled out” as a suspect in bombing. Media Credit: New York Times The person questioned in the hospital was a Saudi national, who was reportedly tackled and held by a bystander after he was seen running from near the scene of the explosion, said a law enforcement source who spoke with someone involved in the FBI’s investigation. The Saudi man, believed to be a university student in Boston, is cooperating with the FBI and told agents that he was not involved in the explosions, and that he ran only because he was frightened. Investigators did not characterize the man as a suspect. No one had been arrested or charged [...]
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley cleared in state House ethics case… Again
(Reuters) - South Carolina lawmakers on Friday cleared Republican Governor Nikki Haley of ethics charges that accused her of illegally lobbying on behalf of her employers while a member of the legislature. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley Media Credit Politisite.com The Republican-led House of Representatives' Ethics Committee voted to dismiss the charges during a private meeting. The decision came after the panel conducted a public hearing on Thursday in response to allegations stemming from Haley's prior work as a business development consultant for an engineering firm and a fundraiser for a hospital foundation. In a statement on Friday, Haley praised the panel and referred to the charges as "attempts at political distraction." "The Ethics Committee did its job [...]
DOJ Failure? Former GITMO Detainee Acquitted of Most Terror Charges in Civilian Trial | Iron Mill Interactive Media
(AP) The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial has been acquitted in New York City of all but one charge accusing him of a deadly 1998 plot to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa. Read the Full Story at Gitmo Detainee Acquitted of Most Terror Charges – CBS News. New York Times Terror Suspect Cleared of All Charges Except for One Count of Conspiracy The first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court was acquitted on Wednesday of all but one of more than 280 charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1998 terrorist bombings of the United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The case has been seen as a test of President Obama’s goal of trying detainees in federal court whenever feasible, and the result may again fuel [...]
