Congressional Quarterly

I have often on this blog had occasion to bemoan the apparent blindness of the mainstream media and commentators in the United States to the shakiness of the conviction of Abdelbaset Megrahi, to the weakness of the evidence on which it was based and to the fact that it has now been referred back to the High Court by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission because there may have been a miscarriage of justice. It is with great pleasure, therefore, that I draw attention to an article on the Congressional Quarterly website, CQ Politics by their National Security Editor, Jeff Stein. In this article, he outlines the problems with the official US/UK version of events and explores the most compelling of the alternative scenarios, with quotes from US security and intelligence operatives who doubt the official version. A welcome transatlantic breath of fresh air. See
http://cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=hsnews-000002648396

This story has been picked up by many other news media. One of these is The Malta Independent which is, of course, particularly interested in the admission by the US State Department that the Maltese shopkeeper, Tony Gauci, received a large reward for his evidence. See
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=62456