You won't see them blow up on the stand, nor will the government bait them. It's going to be much more deliberate and meticulous.

This is a great rejoinder, ... I'm a member of the Air Force family.

Certainly the government has a good team of prosecutors and (federal) agents working on this around the clock.

If you're already ahead in the grand scheme of things, you're taking a chance of creating an appellate issue.

not only make economic sense but also, and primarily, military and operational sense.

It was nerves. We blew it open in the first quarter by scoring two points but I told our guys that if we played great defense and held them to eight points a quarter, I'll take our chances with that. We settled down and started playing basketball.

For days he's been arguing two-plus-two is not really four, that everything was not as it appeared on its face and that only a very few smart people could understand.

For him to be acquitted, the jury's got to buy his story and discount everybody else's.

That, perhaps, is an explanation, but it's not an excuse?and it's not a license to lie.

The Sept. 6 call, his failure to remember that, really damaged his credibility. That sequence is going to affect the jury's consideration of whether or not he had the intent to commit the other offenses he's charged with.