I agree with your statement on mutual understanding. I don't believe the first question is relevant. Rather, thousands, if not millions of Americans will kill,

I agree with your statement on mutual understanding. I don't believe the first question is relevant. Rather, thousands, if not millions of Americans will kill, or send others to kill, in the name of their god. We hear this in the popular press often, when people say that we need troops active in the Middle East to fight on God's side. Or when Bush, quoted by Chirac when Bush was trying to convince France to be in the Iraq war, said "This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins". That doesn't mean we prosecute people for being willing to do something. We do prosecute them (sometimes) for doing so, or for planning/conspiring to do so. Yes, I believe the federal government prosecution acted in bad faith in the following: > These transcripts were never supposed to be revealed in their entirety. The government argued that their release could harm the U.S. government by revealing “law enforcement investigative strategy and methods.” U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony E. Porcelli not only sealed the transcripts, but also placed them under a protective order. Based on what was given, this information did not need to be classified and contained potentially mitigating information.