FBI Director, Robert Mueller wrote a scathing letter, yesterday, to Kenny MacAskill, Scotland's Cabinet Secretary of Justice regarding his decision to release Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, who is terminally ill. Mueller was the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the investigation and indictment of Megrahi in 1991.
The bombing killed 270 people (mostly Americans) in retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Muammar Qaddafi's personal home. He mentions the grief of the families of the victims and personal effects of the victims such as a single sneaker of a teenager and the toys in a businessman's briefcase going home to spend Christmas with his family.
I've never seen a letter like this with all of its outrage from someone so high up in the federal government. I'm curious if he had to get Obama's personal okay or just his boss, the Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis C. Blair. Maybe Obama asked him to write something as both he and Hillary Clinton have expressed strong disapproval for releasing al-Megrahi.
Here's the letter. You can feel Mueller's anger, disgust and pain.
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel09/mueller082209.htm
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