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...think twice. Under current law, this fellow very likely would have been executed by now.

Judge tosses ex-CIA agent's Houston conviction (Houston Chronicle):
A federal judge in Houston has thrown out the 20-year-old arms smuggling conviction of a former CIA agent, outlining in scathing terms how federal officials knowingly used a false affidavit at his trial and concealed the act through years of appeals.

Edwin Wilson was convicted in Houston in 1983 of smuggling arms to Libya at a time when the threat of Libyan terrorism was major news. Congress was mounting investigations into controversial CIA activities around the globe, and CIA administrators were actively trying to deflect criticism.
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But U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes spelled out in his order vacating Wilson's conviction, that the CIA forwarded a memo to the U.S. attorney's office a few days after he was convicted -- but before he was sentenced -- alerting them that they had since discovered at least five projects Wilson had worked on for the CIA after 1971 -- including a planned trip to Iran with the CIA's deputy director.

The CIA forwarded the memo to the U.S. attorney's office, Hughes said, but after debating the issue for months, decided not to inform Wilson's attorneys. Wilson appealed, but the government failed to acknowledge that the affidavit was false.

Think this sort of thing isn't still going on? Ask Joe Wilson.