27 Sep
2001
27 Sep
'01
3:37 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:34:19AM -0700, enochian wrote:
According to an article by Declan in this morning's Wired News, Brian K. West has decided to take a plea agreement in the government's case against him for accessing an inadvertantly left wide open web site at a newspaper.
Feel free to read the plea agreement (politechbot.com) yourself and draw your own conclusions. Yes, federal prosecutors may go on fishing expeditions and file thoughtcrime charges. We've discussed many such cases here. But it does not logically follow that all charges filed by federal prosecutors are abuses of power. -Declan