BREAKING NEWS Court Papers Detail Evidence of Loughner Plan to Assassinate Giffords

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U.S. Cites Evidence of Assassination Plot
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/us/politics/10giffords.html?_r=1&hp

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Court documents filed in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix indicated that evidence seized from Mr. Loughner's home showed that he had planned to kill Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Found in Mr. Loughner's home, F.B.I. special agent Tony M. Tayler Jr. said in an affidavit supporting the charges, was an envelope with the handwritten words, "I planned ahead," "My assassination," and "Giffords."

The details of the envelope were not disclosed.Besides being accused of deliberating trying to take Ms. Giffords' life, Mr. Loughner was charged with the killing and attempted killing of four United States government officials, among them U.S. District Judge John M. Roll, who was killed; congressional aide Gabriel Zimmerman, also killed; and congressional aides Pamela Simon and Ron Barber, who were wounded.

[Avalux]

1. So much for an insanity defense. n/t

[cutlassmama]

2. Not really. He can still have planned it, but because of him mental instability

he acted upon it.

[LisaL]

5. No. The fact that he might be mentally unstable doesn't make him

legally insane.

[eleny]

3. That will put an end to the proposition that the judge was his intended victim

That was being suggested already yesterday by the right wingers being interviewed on tv.

[timtom]

4. As an interesting aside,

If we opted to use the same pronunciation of the "ough" part of the assassin's name as in the word "though" what would that yield?

Is that not iconic even if accidental?