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Arrested last February by federal agent..-- , while allegedly delivering a package for pickup in a northern .Virginia park, Hanssen was indicted on 21 counts of espionage, including conspiracy to .commit espionage, and one forfeiture count, the Justice Department said. Hanssen is only the third FBI agent ever accused of espionage. ! At the time of his arrest, the FBI said that Hanssen, 57, passed along to Soviet and later Russian agents 6,000 pages of documents on secret programs that described how the United States gathers intelligence, technologies used for listening, people who work as double agents and other highly sensitive matters. The bureau said this activity occurred over a period starting in 1985. The conspiracy count and the espionage charges carry a maximum penalty of death or life imprisonment. Each charge also carries a potential fine of not more than $250,000 or double what Hanssen gained from the alleged 15-ye- spying. Discussing the indictment on the steps of the U.S. Courthouse in suburban Alexandria, Va., U.S. Attorney Ken Melson refused to comment on the impact the indictment would have on plea negotiations bit ween Hanssen and the government. "I can't comment on any plea negotiations or the existence of them or the status of them," told reporters, a day after Hanssen's lawyers confirmed that such talks had stalled. Melson also said the indictment was filed Wednesday five days before a scheduled because hearing for Hanssen "the grand jury sits this week and does not sit on Monday." The indictment came after plea discussions between Hanssen's lawyers and federal prosecutors broke down over the issue of the death penalty. Hanssen's lawyers said the government wanted Mel-so- n nt Hanssen to provide information about what secrets he revealed but would not agree to waive the death penalty in exchange for the information. Hanssen's lawyers have said Hansen will plead innocent. An arraignment was scheduled for June 1. The indictment alleges that Hanssen "betrayed his country for ' over 15 years and knowingly caused grave injury to the security of the United States," Melson said. indictment The charges Hanssen with conspiring with officers of the KGB and its successor intelligence agency, the SVR, to deliver to Moscow "information relating to the national defense of the United States" with the intent of harming the United States and benefiting Moscow, the Justice Department said. .V in tin1 slaving' i: m'i isclosed. (1 ,; declined a. Ki'tU'V buffings attacked A al'i - Israeli M -- i a- if rockets ! lest iall police West Ilaiik city 'a a; labaliva refuser :,t v. At least 10 ' ui:i By CURT ANDERSON as Israel .iiiii-- raised the a .a :,. talks based a:r!'.i,i! ions lv an inter-- . 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Boy convicted of to keep ban to . pre-a,- a A of " ban ill I a. a ina asi'--: h passed to $,S.2 ail reaii- a. in l. ai'bat-,111 a a' 'P two i H jury convicted a 1 I boy year-old murder Wednesday for shooting his English teacher, rejecting a more serious charge that could have put him in arahp.s that aa "i Fla. WKS'r l'AL.M .,,rv'.S. '. i' By AMANDA RIDDI I. "iH l.lU'il I'lL'SV W old. - The 'Ai'' a: second-degre- e prison for life. Nathaniel Brazili, who insisted he accidentally shot the popular .'iateacher on the last day ot school a year ago. also was convicted of aggravated assault for pointing the silver semiautomatic pistol at a math teacher as he fled. The teen, an honor roll student without a previous criminal record, faces 25 years to life in prison fbr the shooting death of - ear-ol- d .25-calib- infers plea '!' 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The jury began deliberations Monday and spent 14 hours before reluming the verdicts. Sentencing was set for dime 2!t. liraill. wearing a shirt and tie and seated between his lawyers, b ow ied as each verdict Was read. lie bad been charged as an adult with murder, which would have carried an auto first-degre- e murder 2nd-degr- ee matic sentence of life without parole, but jurors were given the option of considering lesser counts. By finding Brazill guilty of sec murder, the jury determined that the shooting was not premeditated. Defense attorney Robert Udell told jurors in summations that Brazill was guilty instead of an unintentionmanslaughter al, negligent killing punishable by up to 30 years in prison. Lawyers said Brazill had hoped for the manslaughter conviction, but said "Not too bad" after learnmurder vering the dict. But then he cried after he was escorted from the courtroom by deputies, the lawyers said. Brazill, then 13, shot Grunow once between the eyes in the doorway of the teacher's Lake Worth Middle School classroom last May 26, about two hours after being sent home early for throwing a water balloon. The shooting happened moments before the start of summer vacation. The school's principal, Bob Hatcher, expressed relief in the verdict, saying, "The justice system worked. The jury found a ver ond-degre- e second-degre- e dict. I think it was a fair and equitable trial." Brazill's family members pushed past a throng of television cameras and offered no comments as they left the courthouse. Brazill testified last week in a calm, monotone voice that the gun went off unintentionally. He showed emotion once, crying after the prosecutor asked him on what happened to Grunow after the shooting. Jurors heard emotional testimony from about a dozen middle school students who saw their classmate shoot Grunow or aim at math teacher John James. On a school surveillance video of the shooting shown to jurors, Brazill extended his arms and pointed the gun at Grunow for four seconds before firing. after Shortly assembling Wednesday morning, a court reporter read back testimony from students Dinora Rosales and Vonae Ware, whom Brazill said he wanted to see before summer break. The girls were behind Grunow, when Brazill shot him once. Resales testified, she saw Brazill pull the trigger. cross-examinati- sions. "Clearly, what passed the Finance Committee is not likely to be the final product," said Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-- . Miss. A major sticking point is how low to drop the top 39.6 percent income tax rate. The compromise Senate bill reduces it to 36 percent by 2007, while Bush and House Republicans want the top rate cut to 33 percent and all the income tax cuts' to occur over a shorter time frame. Other than immediate, retroactive creation of a new , bottom 10 percent rate, the Senate '. bill phases in the rate cuts from 2002 to 2007. "The president believes that' the top rate should be what the House passed 33 percent," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. "He does not believe that anyone should pay more than one third of their income to the federal government." Under current law, the top 39.6 percent in 2001 applies to income above $297,350. Republican insistence on slashing that rate so deeply, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said, demonstrates that the tax cut is "largely tilted toward those at the very top at the ' expense of everybody else." The Senate tax bill also includes numerous items sought by individual senators, such as a deduction for college tuition, a retirement savings package and a provision allowing millions of people to claim a portion of the $500 child credit, which would gradually double to $1,000. low-inco- may pull out I'Bi director admits to mistakes in McVeigh a hll('d has on I;a i! IU II SM I. a. a niiin ii '': ad said aa e talks a raising a A -- Aim aiii ij ' 'l,i- (oticilia-- . t wo ib. iin 'i. Aii I rack, 1194 to a l.illl ' a " a iilictea:' aige for two fk e '. ije built by a ,a), J.ut fuhobn;; prohlerus, a ensions, ba e ait ion of the project -- ! i r.- - HOLLAND a. iii.i - ,'. I ; . WASHINGTON - FBI withheld from McVeigh's lawyers at the time of his trial, Freeh said in prepared remarks that: "I am not here to minimize our mistakes--or to make Lii ills Freeh Jll.u:cl.j.r acknowledged Wednesday excuses." a "serious error" in the Even as he was explainbureau failure to provide' the problem, Freeh ing Timet by McVeigh's admitted that in addition with in evidence lawyers to the 3,135 pages that the- Oklahoma City bombhave now been turned FBI lie said ing case, over, the' FIJI- has located be,id(oari eis bad repeatedly a ,ked. but failed, to "a number of additional documents" as a result of a get Held offices to furnish fie material. search ordered Friday. The documents are Speak int.' publicly for t irrie the being reviewed to see if inci' disclosure hat more ban 3,000 they should he turned of documents were over, he said. - r- t lis -t Freeh made the statement before a House subcomAppropriations mittee, six days after the revelation and a day after testifying behind closed doors on the problem before the Senate Intelligence Committee. In terms of corrective measures, Freeh said he has ordered the formation of a search committee to s records hire "a expert, a senior official who will be dedicated to this issue and this issue alone." He also said he has ordered that a separate office of records manage , world-clas- ment and policy be established, calling it a "core function that deserves the full and constant attention of the entire FBI." of how "Regardless extraneous these documents are, if they were covered by the, discovery agreement, they should have been located and released during discovery," Freeh said. "As director, I have taken responsibility. The buck does stop with me." Nevertheless, he said, "the underlying case and his guilt remain f case Freeh, who recently announced he was retiring two years before completion of his term, testified on the same day that McVeigh was to have been executed for the bombing. Freeh cited many requests that field offices send their material to its Oklahoma City field office the operation that had headquarters assigned the job of compiling the records. In 1995 and 1996, he said, field offices were told 11 times to send the documents. 10-ye- ar ' A |