Who would have thought that if we put on an international terror trial in Chicago with a cast of bad guys, including a self-confessed two-timing spy, secret documents, a shady Chicago businessman and testimony of alleged involvement by Pakistani ex-military officers in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 170 people including six U.S. citizens, who would have figured that no one would show up for the trial?
No one, that is, except scores of journalists from India, Australia, Britain and Denmark. Our American news people were instead down the corridor at the Rod Blagojevich federal trial. The 40th governor of Illinois, thrown out of office but as not as yet thrown into prison, and the darling of late night comedians, got the trial star treatment.