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Prosecutors in the Boston Bombing case claim that government witnesses are scared to testify. Yet it’s the defense witnesses who should be afraid, given the long official intimidation campaign against them.
Witness intimidation, a tactic normally associated with the mafia or drug cartels, continues to be an underreported aspect of the Boston Bombing trial. Recent court documents reveal a troubling pattern of harassment and surveillance against potential defense witnesses by the FBI.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is accused of harassing friends of Ibragim Todashev, the Chechen immigrant who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando, Florida, under unexplained circumstances during a late-night interrogation five months ago. Todashev was a friend of one of the Boston bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Two more friends are now behind bars in what advocates say is part of a campaign of intimidation. Just why this is happening remains unclear.
More evidence has been revealed that the Trump administration’s indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is, at best, shady.
Karl Rove was wrong: Creating your own reality is not just dangerous; it’s ultimately futile.
Ukraine knocked out one of the legs of Russia’s nuclear triad. This is astonishing. It is also a revolution in military affairs and profoundly destabilizing.
The US, from protector to threat: How Trump’s annexation talk and tariff threats upended Canada’s election and forced the nation to reimagine its future.
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What better way to gut the rule of law than to castrate the professionals who practice it?
Just after midnight, Donald Trump took to social media to amplify a new conspiracy theory and declare void the pardons of members of the January 6 committee.
Try coming up with a better explanation for what is going on.
Despite France’s best efforts, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the country’s extreme-right National Front, was impossible to ignore