On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Information Security wrote:
# Bin Laden has suffered other setbacks recently. On Wednesday night, the # FBI arrested Wadih el Hage, an Arlington, Texas man who law enforcement # officials charge worked with bin Laden and Al-Din in Sudan, and with # Fazil in Kenya from 1994 to 1997. He has been charged with lying to the # FBI about his relationship with other bin Laden operatives, including a # senior bin Laden lieutenant who drowned in a 1996 ferryboat accident in # Tanzania.
Is "lying to the FBI" a law on the books, or is the actual charge something else? ---guy
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 dont want to take the time to look up the 18 USC reference, but providing deliberately false information to _any_ federal agent is a felony-- that includes the IRS. if nothing else, such as telling a federal agent to fuck-off, they will charge you with obstruction of justice. for all who think the Bill of Rights really means something, consider: silence obstruction of justice false information lying to a federal agent in course of ... ... too many to list; also, each of the regulatory agencies have their own courts and regulations which usurp the Congressional mandate for legislation of the Constitution. The regulatory courts have broad powers and their decisions, both criminal and civil, can be entered in Federal District Court; you, of course, have right of review in Federal District Court, for what that is worth --by the time you get that far in the procedings, you're out of money for the mandatory lawyers the original 13th amendment was created to prevent --the government has confiscated your property without due process, and before "conviction" under the seizure laws which permit them to grab assets at the time of the arrest --even if you are acquitted, there is little if any guarantee your property will be restored --if in the meantime it is sold at 10 cents on the dollar at auction, you may be entitled to that dime. welcome to democracy in action. attila out.... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Comment: No safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be. Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNgZfzz7vNMDa3ztrEQIwlwCdGMfStrZLM9b3QFss95M/oxiuUHQAn1s9 ETc8Fr1fsDRoBjwZlFvKlBK5 =QsY1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- __________________________________________________________________________ go not unto usenet for advice, for the inhabitants thereof will say: yes, and no, and maybe, and I don't know, and fuck-off. _________________________________________________________________ attila__ To be a ruler of men, you need at least 12 inches.... There is no safety this side of the grave. Never was; never will be.