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Couple pleads guilty in Cuban spying case

A retired State Department worker and his wife, accused of a decadeslong plot to spy for Cuba, pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him in jail for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom after six years. Walter Kendall ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, eTaiwan News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  US State Department,  Fidel Castro

Court filing: Cuba spy suspect to plead guilty

WASHINGTON - The government says an accused spy for Cuba has agreed to plead guilty. Retired State Department official Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and wife Gwendolyn were caught in an undercover FBI sting operation, arrested in June and held without bail. ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: US State Department,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  U.S. Department of Justice

Court filings: Accused spy couple to plead guilty

WASHINGTON A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of three decades of spying for Cuba are preparing to plead guilty in the case, according to a Friday court filing. Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and wife, Gwendolyn, 71, were caught in an ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, San Diego Union-Tribune,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  US State Department,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Fidel Castro

US charges firms defrauded deaf phone fund

WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people with scheming to steal millions from a telephone program for the deaf. Authorities say a number of companies schemed to create phony calls to a video service that allows the deaf to ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission

Obama predicts conviction in Sept. 11 case

From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be exposed ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, Taiwan News,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  U.S. Republican Party,  Eric Holder,  U.S. Democratic Party

Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case

WASHINGTON From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, San Diego Union-Tribune,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  Eric Holder,  U.S. Republican Party,  Senate Judiciary Committee

Obama: Professed 9/11 mastermind will be convicted

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted, as Attorney General Eric Holder defended putting him through the U.S. ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Eric Holder,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Shaun Donovan,  Securities and Exchange Commission

Holder: Don't fear trial of 'coward' 9/11 plotter

Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial in New York - and urging critics of the plan not to cower in the face of terrorists. Holder is set to testify Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, TheNewsTribune.com,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Eric Holder,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama

A risky setting for NYC trial of 9/11 suspects

WASHINGTON—In a move both politically and legally risky, the Obama administration plans to put on trial the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and four alleged accomplices in a lower Manhattan courthouse. The venue for the biggest ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, Boston Globe,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Eric Holder,  The Pentagon,  Al-Qaeda

A look at the 10 Gitmo detainees headed to US

WASHINGTON—Ten high-profile Guantanamo Bay detainees are being transferred to face justice in the United States. The five detainees heading to civilian court in New York to face charges they orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are: --Khalid Sheikh ...

From DEVLIN BARRETT, Boston Globe,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Osama bin Laden,  Zacarias Moussaoui,  Omar Khadr

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