Government Secrecy May Lead to New Trial In Va. Terrorism Case

"U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria said her skepticism in the case of Ali al-Timimi stems from government misinformation in another major terrorism prosecution: that of convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. Federal prosecutors recently revealed that the CIA had told Brinkema that the interrogations of enemy combatant witnesses in Moussaoui's trial had not been audiotaped or videotaped, when they had. The judge called the factual error "a mess" yesterday but indicated it probably would not affect Moussaoui's guilty plea or life prison term."

Okay, so the government lied about evidence and God knows what else in the Moussaoui case - so much so that it may be cause for a mis-trial in another terror case. But, in the case of Moussaoui, the case in which the government was directly implicated, it won't make a difference ~ I don't get it. Do you?