Ashcroft weighs Spann request
Slain CIA agent's family wants to testify for Lindh sentencing

It seems only reasonable, but the government maybe doesn't want to be embarrassed by a hero's family standing up in court and saying that the government let them down by letting his possible murderer plead to get a 20-year sentence. I mean, consider what Spann's father is saying:

"I heard President Bush say that we were not going to negotiate with terrorists and in fact I say we've done that," Spann said. "This is a slap in the face to not only Mike and his family but to every other American who died in Afghanistan and the people who died on Sept. 11."

Gee.