“Our interest is justice, and our interest is the commitment that we made

to the families [of the victims]. He was brought to trial. He had a fair trial.

He was convicted. He’s serving his time. And we think he should stay in

jail.” — The State Department’s P.J. Crowley, saying Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had phoned Scotland’s justice minister to oppose the “human itarian” release of Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the bomber of Pan Am 103 in 1988