{"id":2861,"date":"2006-07-18T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T06:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/so-thats-where-they-got-the-lie-that-padilla-was-a-dirty-bomber\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T00:09:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T07:09:02","slug":"so-thats-where-they-got-the-lie-that-padilla-was-a-dirty-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/so-thats-where-they-got-the-lie-that-padilla-was-a-dirty-bomber\/","title":{"rendered":"So that’s<\/em> where they got the lie that Padilla was a “dirty bomber.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

FBI wanted Padilla’s help, not arrest<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“‘I didn’t want to arrest him,’ said Special Agent Russell Fincher said. ‘I needed his cooperation.’ …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“He said the agency had hoped Padilla could provide information about an al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive device, or so-called ‘dirty bomb’ on U.S. soil, and needed an insider…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then when he refused<\/a>, they accused him<\/a> of plotting that very thing and turned him over to the military so he could not confront his accusers.<\/p>\n

When the Administration found out that the Supreme Court was getting ready to hear the case<\/a> and rule that the Bill of Rights<\/a> applied to him, the DoJ finally had some idiot grand jury indict him.<\/p>\n

There is nothing about a “dirty bomb” or a plot to blow up apartments<\/a> or anything remotely resembling such activity in the indictment<\/a> [.pdf] anywhere.<\/p>\n

Remember when former Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, admitted that Padilla was innocent<\/a>?<\/p>\n

He was just a schmuck who refused to cooperate with their plans to entrap<\/a> someone else.<\/p>\n

Now that there’s no Soviet Union, who<\/a> can we point to in order to convince ourselves that the American system is superior to anyone’s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FBI wanted Padilla’s help, not arrest “‘I didn’t want to arrest him,’ said Special Agent Russell Fincher said. ‘I needed his cooperation.’ … “He said the agency had hoped Padilla could provide information about an al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive device, or so-called ‘dirty bomb’ on U.S. soil, and needed an insider…” And then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}