In his closing, defense attorney Edward B. MacMahon Jr. called his client a liar and a manipulator. He told jurors they should not believe Moussaoui's contention that had he not been sitting in a jail cell he would have been flying a hijacked plane into the White House on Sept. 11, 2001.

MacMahon told jurors that they were now a target of Moussaoui's propaganda: that he had an important role to play on Sept. 11. In reality, MacMahon argued, Moussaoui was "nothing but an al-Qaeda hanger-on" who is "trying to write a role for himself in history."

The jury deliberated an hour before retiring for the evening.

Cryptome.Org has footed the bill for the trial transcripts up until March 13. It's out of funds. They cost $1.00 a page and are not available on Lexis or from the Court, only from Exemplaris, a private company that provides them to the news services. If anyone wants to foot the $1,700.00 bill for the remaining transcripts, that would be great. I'd love to read and analyze them, particularly the day Moussaoui testified. It looks like that day, March 27, is only $261.00. Also, most of the Judge's rulings, such as on what the Government could and could not argue seem to have been made orally during the hearings and not by written order. Without the transcripts, it's impossible to do a complete analysis.

1,706 pages unpublished since March 13, 2006, through March 27, 2006:

March 14 -- 225 pages
March 17 -- 12
March 20 -- 323
March 21 AM -- 49
March 21 PM -- 293
March 22 -- 302
March 23 -- 241
March 27 -- 261

If any reporters who have transcript copies of March 14 and later want to e-mail them to me, that would be great and you can remain anonymous.