Terrorism Case Shows U.S. Flaws in Strategy: "When federal agents went through the apartment door just before sunrise on Sept. 17, 2001, Glock automatics at the ready, what they found caused government officials all the way to the top of the Justice Department to snap to attention."
Less than a week after Islamic extremists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, here were three North African Muslim men caught in a barren apartment with airport security passes, forged passports, videotapes of American landmarks and a crude sketch labeled in Arabic an "American base in Turkey."[--snip--]
Today, the terrorism convictions have been dismissed because the government withheld evidence that could have helped the defense. The Justice Department is investigating its chief prosecutor in the case, Richard G. Convertino. He, meanwhile, is suing the department. [--snip--]
"In its best light," Morford told Rosen, "the record would show that the prosecution committed a pattern of mistakes and oversights that deprived the defendants of discoverable evidence."
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