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Feds: Obama plot “more aspirational, perhaps, than operational”
coloradoindependent.com - 9/4/2008
Feds: Obama plot “more aspirational, perhaps, than operational”
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The three men arrested Sunday suspected of a plot to kill Barack Obama will face weapons and drug charges but won’t face assassination-related charges, Colorado’s U.S. attorney said at a news conference Tuesday .“The law recognizes a difference between a true threat — one that can be carried out ...

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FBI Wanted Obama Plotters Charged, But A Rove Appointee Said No
Firedoglake — ... Note the language used by Eid in dismissing the gravity of the case: the case isn't serious because they were "more aspirational, perhaps, than operational"? Well, when it was ...

FBI Wanted Obama Plotters Charged, But A Rove Appointee Said No
Orcinus — ... Note the language used by Eid in dismissing the gravity of the case: the case isn't serious because they were "more aspirational, perhaps, than operational"? Well, when it was ...

Republican U.S. Attorney Goes Easy on Would-be Assassins
Daily Kos — ... Note the language used by Eid in dismissing the gravity of the case: the case isn't serious because they were "more aspirational, perhaps, than operational"? Well, when it was the Liberty Seven -- black Muslim men who were described by the FBI as "aspirational rather than operational" -- there was no hesitation by the Justice Department in bringing charges. ...

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