1.0 link 62395 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-goodman/the-american-judicial-sys_b_62395.html On Sunday, The New York Times wrote about a truly bizarre criminal prosecution here in New York. It's bizarre on many levels. It involves two men, Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref, who were convicted of supporting terrorism after an elaborate FBI sting operation allegedly found them supporting a fake assassination plot. Illegal NSA surveillance may have spurred the sting operation. The case involves secret arguments by the government, and more astonishingly, secret opinions by the judge that only government...

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