Lies, yes; perjury, no for ink expert
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The former head of the US Secret Service&#39;s forensic lab was acquitted yesterday on two counts of lying repeatedly on the stand as the government&#39;s ink expert at the Martha Stewart trial.
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Miguel de Icaza, in this weblog entry says, "Facts barely matter when they get in the way of a good smear. The comments over at Groklaw are interesting, in that they explore new levels of ignorance." This comment rings especially true of his weblog entry. For example, Miguel states... We have been working on OpenOffice.Org for longer than anyone else has. We were some of the earliest contributors to OpenOffice, and we are the largest external contributor to actual code to OpenOffice than anyone else. Say what?  Who created OpenOffice? Who bought it?  Who opened it?  Anyone ever hear of Star Division gmbh or Sun?  Since when did Novell become the earliest contributor to OpenOffice.org?  The earliest and largest external contributor, maybe.  I'd like to see some hard facts to back up an assertion like that (not that facts matter, as Miguel admitted), but his hyperbolic boasting of Novell's contribution is obviously overblown.
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NEW YORK -- A Secret Service ink expert was acquitted yesterday of lying on the stand at Martha Stewart&#39;s trial, a case the homemaking expert seized on in her bid to have her conviction thrown out.
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A year on, and the company's $1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?
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I must admit to being of two conflicting minds when it comes to the anti-Kerry activities of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. On the one hand, there is nothing that makes my blood boil more than a fraudulent Vietnam veteran.
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A court rules a web-based bankruptcy "expert" is not a clerical tool but is effectively practicing law without a license. Plus: Internet doomed, close browser now. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Barry Bonds asked a federal judge to dismiss perjury charges against him Wednesday, arguing the indictment is "scattershot" and noted for its "striking inartfulness." Bonds was charged in November with lying to a grand jury about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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A federal prosecutor said Thursday that a Secret Service ink expert lied repeatedly during the Martha Stewart trial, perhaps because he thought the lies "would make him look better."
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Debunking the falsehoods springing from this November's contest
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A mix-up over ink used to mark voters' thumbs triggered an uproar Saturday in Afghanistan's first direct presidential elections, leading several candidates to allege fraud despite assurances from election workers that the problem was limited.
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The pro-Western challenger in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election alleged that there had been blatant falsification in yesterday&#39;s run-off election.
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A government ink expert was found not guilty of lying on the witness stand during Stewart&#39;s trial. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Larry Stewart, a government witness who testified against Martha Stewart, was found not guilty Tuesday on all counts of perjury.
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A cardinal rule of investigative reporting is to never trust a photocopy of a document you&#39;re using as a basis for a story. It could be fake.
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Tycho:   It has become the Saturday tradition to do the next strip upon the expo's stark and terrifying stage, but since Armadeaddon needed its proper epilogue it got moved out to Wednesday.  Gabe was highly indulgent of audience suggestions in the final version, far more than he is to me, adding many, many things based on them being called out from the microphone - he has a version with more additions still that he'll be putting up later today.  But there are things in there like the blue ball in the last panel - to say nothing of the official "Hot-Dog Fairy" merchandise! - that began as anecdotes and have now graduated to true PAX lore.
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Blog: Writer is duped for the first time ever by a phishing attack; feels violated and ashamed.
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Tycho:  We put Monday's strip up early, so you might have seen it already - but you might not be familiar with the EGM interview it is based on, an excerpt of which appears here.  I sometimes worry about appearing partisan in these communiques, but it is not my job to be fair.  I'm not a journalist, I'm a consumer.  I don't buy one product from each company in the interests of some karmic ideal, and I don't need to purge my posts of wrongthink because I haven't produced something suitable for use as a press release.  Sony is grinding down their goodwill with every smug, psychotic interview, and someone needs to tell them so in clear terms.
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IF you want to drive an artist crazy - and who doesn't, really? - there is one little query that is remarkably effective in unhinging even the coolest painters in Chelsea.