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Attorney General John Ashcroft is not rushing to the mikes and cameras to defend his assistant D.A. in Washington state who vowed to give a would-be terrorist who targeted American servicemen a light sentence to get "home by Christmas.” Just as the Department of Justice has stonewalled NewsMax.com for the past several weeks, four new phone inquiries in the past two days elicited no comment from the attorney general or his spokesman on a plea bargain last month with "anarchist" college student Paul Douglas Revak, charged with plotting to bomb Coast Guard and Army National Guard stations in Bellingham, Wash....

Paul Douglas Revak, a Western Washington University student who plotted bomb attacks against Coast Guard and Army National Guard stations has pled guilty to reduced charges and will probably be out of prison before Christmas. His lawyer claims that he was merely, “expressing his frustration with the Administration.” The whole case calls to mind what Ann Coulter said about John Walker Lindh- that he should have been executed to send a message to liberals that yes, there are consequences to treason. During the Revolutionary War, suspected Tories were tarred and feathered and British collaborators were executed. During the Civil War,...

Despite NewsMax.com's dogged efforts to get the federal government to explain why a self-described "anarchist" who allegedly planned terrorist bombings of U.S. military bases is getting off with a slap on the wrist, the feds don't want to discuss the case. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Western Washington told us that Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Hamilton, who accepted a plea agreement that could have the "peacenik" would-be terrorist out of jail and home by Christmas, is out of the office and will not be back until Monday. NewsMax.com will contact him then and seek to learn why he believed that...