The LA Times says the Moussaoui trial is “unraveling”, and the Justice Department is trying to “salvage” it. Now, from where I stand, the worst thing that can happen in this trial is that Moussaoui goes to prison for the rest of his life. So, it’s hard to argue that the trial needs to be salvaged, but if it makes the LA Times feel better to bash the prosecutors, and pretend things are going badly, so be it.
All week long, government lawyer Carla J. Martin badgered them. She sent them 100-plus-page court transcripts. She harried them with e-mails criticizing prosecutors and fretting about the government’s image. She called them at home.
By Friday, Lynne A. Osmus had had enough. As a top security official at the Federal Aviation Administration  and soon to be a key prosecution witness in the death penalty trial of admitted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui  she did not like being used to further the lawyer’s interest in making the FAA look good at the expense of telling the truth in a capital murder case.
