DOJ Offers No More Detail on Scary Iran Plot in Indictment
I had this naive hope that DOJ would use the opportunity of an indictment to fill in some of the holes in their case.
Like I said, naive hope.
The indictment appears to be the amended complaint, without the affidavit, with an arrest warrant for Gholam Shakuri.
BARTENDER! I’ll have whatever this lady is drinking!
Boxturtle (I am unaware of anyone who actually believes the story DoJ is trying to sell)
When you’ve got nothin’ and you’re out of ideas, this is what you get.
Marcy, this may be of interest.
The Turks do not believe the plot even AFTER the U.S. sent representatives to show the evidence.
The only thing I find interesting at all about the indictment is the forfeiture section. Could it be that under the guise of conviction under this indictment that the US will take the assets in some supposed non-Iranian account or accounts?
An account or accounts that have either significant assets and/or are used for other than the directly charged activities of the named and unnamed defendants?
Other than the asset forfeiture, you nailed it EW. A big “yawn”.
@MadDog: They want his used cars?!?
The government deserves compliments for managing to keep this out of court. The cross exam of their witnesses would have been brutal.
Boxturtle (Wonder if the defense could get those wire transfer records tossed)
@b: Thanks.
Though their comments about transparency suggest we’re not showing them evidence either.
And I had thought Turkey’s invasion of Iraq yesterday might be part of the big plot here. I guess not.
Though their comments about transparency suggest we’re not showing them evidence either.
From the piece I linked:
The Turks have seen the presented evidence but it was unconvincing.
@emptywheel: “And I had thought Turkey’s invasion of Iraq yesterday might be part of the big plot here.”
I imagine this must have been hot pursuit after some Kurds. The Kurds may be the largest ethnic minority in the world who don’t have their own State: They are split between Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. They speak an Indo-european language, not Arabic, and one of the greatest military figures in all of Middle Eastern history was Saladin, an arabized Kurd who beat the Christian Crusaders, and ruled an enlarged Syria and all the way to Egypt. Kurdistan was divided up this way after WW I because the war powers were afraid of what a unified Kurdistan might do.
Bob in AZ
Sometimes Pat Buchanan says something so perfect you just have to chuckle. Speaking about Scary Iran Plot on McLaughlin Group, he says it smells like a fish, and:
“The neocons are gassin’ up the Enola Gay….”