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Things just keep going from bad to worse for American mujahid John Walker.

From the beginning I’ve had the suspicion that at the end of the day Walker would basically get off scot-free. The administration clearly just wanted the issue to go away (it’s off message in a big way); after a while most people wouldn’t have the stomach for seeing tough punishment meted out to the pitiful goof; and, for various technical reasons, finding a specific crime to indict him with in a civilian court would be difficult. In fact, at a party a couple nights ago I even bet a friend ten bucks that Walker would never serve jail time — even though I figured this was a bet I’d more than likely lose.

In any case, now it comes out that Walker was actually a member of Al Qaeda, trained at some of the terrorist training camps, and even hung out with bin Laden himself.

One also gets the sense that Walker isn’t confessing the error of his ways on that American ship in the Arabian Sea.

Let’s remember that, as Talking Points noted in a TOO-LITTLE-NOTED SCOOP about a week and a half ago, the law firm Walker’s parents retained to defend him, Morrison & Foerster, was already nervous about just what Walker’s post-capture attitude was going to turn out to be. If Walker remained an unrepentant bin-Ladenite, lead attorney James J. Brosnahan told a private meeting a Morrison & Foerster partners and associates on December 5th, he’d likely end up being an ex-Morrison & Foerster client really quick.

So maybe my better bet would have been how many days are left before John Walker’s big San Francisco law firm drops him like a stone.

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