In case you were wondering, there are several TV crews parked around the Federal Courthouse in Alexandria in our neighborhood. They are parked there because three (3) of the alleged Russian spys are appearing in court today. ABC7 News reports: Three Russian spy suspects arrested in Northern Virginia are scheduled to return to court Thursday. [...]
In case you missed it: The Federal Courthouse in Carlyle that houses the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has been a busy place lately. From the AP: A patent lawyer from Virginia remains in custody after authorities say he sent an e-mail to the White House threatening to kill President [...]
In case you missed it, the great Michael Lee Pope from the Alexandria Gazette has a story this week on how Mayor Bill Euille and Governor Bob McDonnell are on the same page when it comes to possible Guantanamo Bay detainee trials in Alexandria. Michael writes: Democratic Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille and Republican Gov. Bob [...]
We reported to you last week on the possible decision to bring ‘Hambali’ Isamuddin, the Al-Qaeda terrorist responsible for the 2002 bombing of a Bali night club to trial in Washington, DC. Turns out, the media and our sources may have been a little off. We are now hearing through sources at the U.S. Attorney’s [...]
If you’re like me, and not like our Representative James Moran, who relishes the idea that the detainees could and should be moved to Alexandria (specifically Carlyle), you are very concerned for security reasons whether or not they will be tried at the Courthouse in Carlyle. Well, recently, we’ve gotten some very interesting news concerning [...]
Sometimes people say (or write) the darnedest things. Take for example the Op-Ed piece from this past weekends Washington Post. Specifically on Saturday, a day that a lot of people do not read the newspaper, Congressman James Moran (D – 8th District) who represents Alexandria wrote about how ‘Alexandrians are civic-minded people and are ready to [...]
According to a report over at ABCNews.com, President-elect Obama is considering his options after he promised during the recent campaign to close Guantanamo Bay prison. He is considering releasing many prisoners and trying the rest in the Federal court system. One of the major courts that can handle trials like that is the Federal court [...]
A federal lawsuit filed in Seattle against a Renton, Washington man accused of torture while he was an interrogator at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has been transferred to the U.S. District Court in Eastern Virginia (the courthouse in our Carlyle neighborhood). As big as the torture story at ABu Ghraib was a couple [...]
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Tuesday, Sep 7
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Wednesday, Sep 8
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