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U.S. To Drop Charges Against Sklyarov

Posted by timothy on from the in-exchange-for-testimony dept.

Schmerd writes: "The New York Times has a story saying that charges will be dropped against Dmitry Sklyarov in exchange for his testimony against his employer ElcomSoft." Si adds: "It looks like Dmitri might be home for Christmas. This is not the end of the trial, but it appears Dmitri has been freed, pending certain stipulations." jij adds this breaking news article on the Associated Press wire as well. (The AP story is also at Wired). Update: 12/13 22:23 GMT by T : sam@caveman.org links to a slightly more in-depth AP report at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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  1. Happy Holidays... by Ravagin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It looks like Dmitri might be home for Christmas

    Does he celebrate Christmas?

    I'm not trying to be a smartass, honestly....

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  2. Bloody US Government by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hope he has something to sue those f-ckers on. If they did that to me, and I found out that there was nothing I could do back, I would be so pissed off that I would go hi-jack an airliner and crash it into the court.. or congress.. or maybe the whitehouse. The bloody american government does this sort of thing to foreigners and then has the cheek to wonder why people bomb them.

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  3. Re:A Positive Step? by pdqlamb · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    And wait, it gets better. If Ashcroft and his DoJ pursue the case and win, courtesy of judges carefully bought and paid for, nobody gets hurt (except the civil liberties of Americans). Elcomsoft goes to a Russian court, which throws out any penalty because what they did wasn't against Russian law. Elcomsoft chooses its banks carefully and wisely, and the government can't collect. Asscroft looks like a fool.

  4. Re:This is good by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well lets see.. Both cases were almost entirely the American governments fault: wrongful arrest on an unconstitutional law for skylarov and, for the wtc:

    Pissing the world off, polluting the earth, installing military bases everywhere doing various other things. then there was the fact that they stacked tall buildings full of people to make as much money as possible, and doing the same for planes. They left the door open (ie the cockpit door, and also the metaphorical door of entry) and if you leave the front door open and get burgled what do you expect?

    were you talking about bin ladens heinous crimes or the US governments? - flame that :)

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