[ANDMAGAZINE.SUBSTACK] A judge in Washington D.C. yesterday ordered the release of Haider Sher Ali and Arian Taherzadeh — saying prosecutors failed to prove a foreign connection. Defense attorneys argued that the government was "Making a mountain out of a molehill, and it is time for it to end."
The two men may still face charges but in the interim, they will be free to go about their business. Whether they will remain in the country or simply vanish, of course, remains to be seen.
It has now been learned that the government was forced to rush the arrest of the two before it had completed gathering evidence because the two were apparently tipped off to the investigation into their activities via an email from a member of the Secret Service. The government characterizes this as "inadvertent." There has been no explanation of why a Secret Service agent would be emailing either of the two individuals or how such an email could possibly reveal "inadvertently" that the two were under investigation. |