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So much for the experts John Geiger National Post Editorial Page Tuesday, February 21, 2006 A week ago the Toronto Star declared that Prime Minister Stephen Harper had "paid a steep political price" for his decision to appoint former Liberal David Emerson to the Conservative Cabinet. The Star said "people feel genuinely let down" over the appointment, and argued Harper had consequently "devalued his chief personal asset-- credibility." Now the numbers are in. An Ipsos Reid poll for CanWest News Service and Global News released yesterday, but conducted at the same time the Star was opining about how Canadians...

Free from federal custody for the first time in more than 10 years, Michael Fortier looks forward to spending time with his family and building a new life, his attorney said. Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trials, was freed on Friday from an undisclosed federal prison after serving about 85 percent of a 12-year sentence he received for not telling authorities in advance about the bomb plot that killed 168 people. Fortier's attorney, Michael McGuire of Tulsa, said his client looked forward to reuniting with his wife, Lori, and their two children. "This has built...

Michael Fortier will be released Friday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has told victims of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Michael Fortier will be released Friday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has told victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. Fortier, 37, is completing a 12-year prison sentence for crimes tied to the 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Victims said they got a form letter Tuesday about his release. “I’m not pleased,” said widow Donna Hawthorne, whose husband, tire worker Thomas Hawthorne, 52, died visiting the Social Security Administration office in the federal building. “I hope he learned in jail to have better choices,” said Hawthorne, 63, of Choctaw. “He could have saved a lot of lives...

By SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 20 minutes ago OKLAHOMA CITY - Michael Fortier, the prosecution's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trials, will be freed this week, more than a year before his sentence was scheduled to end. ADVERTISEMENT Survivors of the 1995 attack and relatives of the 168 victims received a letter from the Bureau of Prisons this week indicating Fortier's release date of Friday. "He's the luckiest man in the world," said Paul Heath, who was on the fifth floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building when the bomb exploded outside. "Fortier, by...

The McCurtain Daily Gazette today reports several former powerful and high ranking Justice department officials confirm there was a coverup of the investigation to the Oklahoma City bombing. Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing, a published report says several former high ranking Department of Justice officials who want to remain anonymous claim there was a coverup of the attack which killed 168 persons. The story is carried by the McCurtain Daily Gazette in Idabel whose reporter J-D Cash has spent a decade investigating the bombing and its ties to Elohim City, a religious and white separatist compound in eastern...

Magazine casts sex scandal spellWed December 01, 2004 04:36 AM ET By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - A 175-year-old, right-wing political journal may not sound all that sexy. But an irresistible romantic mojo is bubbling away at one august publication, causing havoc in the Houses of Parliament. In a country where adultery and politics sometimes seem to go together like fish and chips, everyone is wondering, what on earth is so sexy about The Spectator? For those who have lost track of the bedroom antics of the political elite, The Spectator is the magazine at the centre of no...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Terry Nichols admitted during plea negotiations in his state trial last year that he played a major role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, a newspaper reported Sunday. Nichols admitted to prosecutors in a signed statement that he helped Timothy McVeigh make the bomb that killed 168 people in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, The Oklahoman reported. McVeigh was put to death for masterminding the attack. "McVeigh told me what to do," Nichols said in the statement, which was prepared with the aid of his attorneys. Nichols, 49, is serving life sentences without...

The Supremes, after all, waded into the 2000 election only with great reluctance, and only in the face of gross judicial overreach: ..."the problem in 2000 was not that the U.S. Supreme Court acted politically but that the Florida Supreme Court did so — not once but twice." Today, five of the seven Florida Supreme Court judges from 2000 remain on the bench. In Ohio.... Then there's the fiasco-waiting-to-happen in Colorado — a ballot initiative that would turn the state from a winner-take-all to a proportional split of electoral college votes. If that had been in effect in 2000, Al...

A Tulsa attorney was paid $51,057 to appeal Michael Fortier's punishment for crimes tied to the Oklahoma City bombing. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday disclosed the total paid to Michael McGuire for two appeals. Taxpayers picked up the cost for the court- appointed attorney. Fortier, 33, was a close friend of bomber Timothy McVeigh. He admitted he knew about McVeigh's plans but never warned anyone. He also admitted that he helped McVeigh move and sell stolen guns and that he lied to FBI agents after the April 19, 1995, attack. Fortier pleaded guilty but was not...