Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: CNN Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 90 22:00:46 GMT References: <1990Nov16.235831.25433@agate.berkeley.edu> <4948@rsiatl.UUCP> <5378@prussian9.UUCP> <1990Nov20.035510.23148@hoss.unl.edu> <1990Nov20.075707.41354@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 19 In article <1990Nov20.075707.41354@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> cirby@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby)) writes: >..would you like to bet (for you conspiracy buffs) that someone way up >in the government came up with this? You know... "Noriega is gonna spill >too much when he hits the stand... we have to get him loose. Someone >come up with a way of getting him off. Leak some information- get him >off on some technicality..." I have read this speculation elsewhere and I don't think it washes. Remember, Noriega was used as the justification for the United States launching a military attack upon, and taking control of, a soverign nation. If Noriega isn't convicted, it implies that the takeover wasn't justified. On the other hand, I believe CNN reported that the Panamanian government was preparing to prosecute Manny for at least a dozen murders he allegedly committed while in power in Panama, so if he were to get off in Florida, it is easy to envision a scenario where the US government would let Panama extradite him. -- -- uunet!sugar!ficc!karl (wk), "Any excuse will serve a tyrant." -- Aesop uunet!sugar!karl (hm)