Anonymous forwarded three local news stories about Jim's sentencing: http://jya.com/jimbell6.htm An excerpt: In a hearing in U.S. District Court in Tacoma this morning, Bell 's public defender and an assistant U.S. Attorney recommended a 6-to-12-month jail sentence for Bell as part of a plea-bargain agreement. But federal probation officers recommended a sentence of 27 months. In doing so, they said they were looking at the "totality" of Bell's behavior, including the threatening nature of his Internet essay, "Assassination Politics." As a result, U.S. District Court Judge Franklin D. Burgess said he was uncomfortable with the situation. "Somehow I am getting a feeling that somebody knows more about something than I do," Burgess said. Also reported: Jim had encrypted some of his files. And though "Bell plead guilty to relatively innocuous charges" IRS investigators compared him to The Unabomber and Tim McVeigh, and claimed he was "part of a far darker scheme to assassinate IRS agents and topple the U.S. government."