Christopher Lee Cornell; resisting common sense
Back in January, we talked about this Christopher Lee Cornell fellow who was arrested by federal authorities for plotting a terrorist attack against the US Capitol. The judge did Mr Cornell a favor by forbidding anyone outside of his lawyers to talk to him, anticipating that the defendant is a motormouth. According to the local Fox8 News, Cornell’s lawyer smuggled a cell phone to him and the first thing he did with it was to call the local news.
This week, Cornell made a collect call to CNN affiliate WXIX, said news director Kevin Roach. That phone call initiated what ended up being an hourlong interview, Roach said.
Cornell’s attorney, Richard Smith-Monahan, argued that WXIX was in contempt of court for violating a January order “directing the detention facility holding the Defendant not to permit outside contact by anyone with the Defendant without [defense counsel’s] express approval.”
Yeah, well, Monahan has an idiot for a client. So the lawyer tried to get a restraining order issued against the news station to prevent them from broadcasting his client’s admission to terrorist intents. That didn’t work.
In the interview, Cornell tells the reporter he was planning what would have been a “major attack” to take place in Washington on September 20. Cornell repeatedly refers to himself as a member of ISIS, and tells Macke he is very serious about jihad. The interview was taped in three 20-minute segments and was recorded by the jail and WXIX.
Good job there, Cornell. But it’s not like his lawyer didn’t hold the nails while Cornell drove them into his own coffin;
During the hearing, which lasted five hours, a lieutenant at the Boone County facility testified that one of Cornell’s attorneys had given [Cornell] a phone. In that testimony the lieutenant stated that he reminded the attorney that giving Cornell a phone meant he would be able to call anyone he wanted to, which seemed at odds with the spirit of the January court order.
Well, Cornell’s lawyer lost at the hearing and the news station broadcast part of their interview Friday.
Cincinnati News, FOX19-WXIX TV
Needless to say, Cornell gave away the store in the interview and admitted that he had planned to blow up the Capitol Building and that he aspired to kill the President. I’m guessing the lawyer will try to change the venue for the trial now to outside of the TV station’s broadcast area.
Christopher Cornell said if he had not been arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents outside the Point Blank Range and Gun shop on Harrison Avenue in Colerain Township after buying firearms and 600 rounds of ammunition on Jan. 14, he would have followed through with an alleged terror plot to plant pipe bombs on the U.S. Capitol and Israeli embassy that Cornell said was organized by the Islamic State.
During the exclusive phone interview with FOX19 NOW’s Tricia Macke from the Boone County, Ky. jail on Thursday, Cornell, 20, referred to himself as Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah.
“I’m with the Islamic State,” Cornell said. “I’m very dedicated to establish the Sharia in America, to wage war on the kafr (an Islamic term for ‘unbeliever’) and raise the word of Allah above all.”
“I’m so dedicated that I risked my whole life,” Cornell said.
By the way, Cornell warns that his buddies, ISIS, are in every state plotting against our peace and security. Like he’d know. His dad continues to defend his son saying poor little Lee was framed. Yep, sounds like it.
Category: Terror War
This guy needs to change his name to Wun Dum Kluk.
You spelled Phuk wrong.
Nah – similar name but different guy.
Wonder if he has a law degree and this guy is his client?
I’m guessing that Richard Smith-Monahan and Daniel Bernath were room mates in law school. I’d say that the attorney who handed the bearded moron a phone was the one in contempt to the court order and not the TV station.
At least the deliberation will be easy now.
I have two lawn chairs with higher IQs than that.
Was that supposed to be September this year? With all the stuff going on in the Middle East, I lose track of time.
‘ISIS are in every state’ – well, of course, he knows all about it. It was on the news last week, I think. Or maybe it was th week before. Besides, he gets those secret messages brought to him in the rice on his meal tray.
This is a case, perhaps, in which Cat Stevens here should have watched more TV as a kid. Had he done so, maybe he would have shut his mouth and kept it shut. His taped interview made the prosecutor do the happy dance. I bet he had the subpoenas out for the tapes before the first installment was at a commercial break.
Is not smuggling in a cell phone to a jail illegal? Why isn’t the lawyer also facing some charges?
That wasn’t at all clear. I’m guessing that the lawyer provided a phone, which was then placed among Cat Stevens’ property. In other words, Cat didn’t have it in his cell. Then, Cat asked to make a call and was allowed to do so but from the facility’s pay phone (thus, the collect call.) Afterwards, the atty asserted that the ct order was violated and that’s when the jail LT testified that the atty himself gave Cat a phone and, therefore, the LT thought it okay to allow Cat to use the facility’s pay phone for a call. And the judge agreed.
Game
Set
Match
Good riddance asshat. Enjoy your time in prison.
Maybe Ach-med-um-Shit would be a good name for him!
I liked him better in Soundgarden. Black Hole Sun fuckin’ rocked!
Since he would like to see Sharia, I suggest we try him for capital crimes and execute him ISIS style in a burning cage.
I’d prefer a nice stoning.
I guess that’s legal in DC now.
(and Colorado and Alaska too)
Stoning? Can I have the first pitch? I’ll pick out a great BFR.
Force him to jump from a six-story building, like ISIS does with queers…
Fly him to the Caliphate, and let him out of the C-17 at 15K feet.
Without a ‘chute.
Naw, you guys are too easy. A pack of very hungry hyenas competing with a very hungry adult male lion.
Are you a Dr now PH2?
/are you a wizard?
Must be Monday. Rx should be Ex.
The lawyer didn’t smuggle a phone in. That’s now what the news station said. Federal pre-trial defendants are held in county lock-up and their rules are their own. Cornell got hold of a phone and called the station himself. His lawyer vigorously flight against the station broadcasting the interview. In fact, in pretrial filings, the lawyer specified that Cornell was to have no interaction with anyone unless the lawyer approved. Dude’s crazy, but it’s not the lawyer’s fault his client got hold of the station.
“Dude’s crazy, but it’s not the lawyer’s fault his client got hold of the station.” Well, if the atty provided a phone, then he provided either the means to phone the station, the tacit approval to communicate with the outside world using that phone or another, or both. Whatever. The issue is moot. The judge ruled, the station was no bound by the ct order, and that’s that. Cat boinked himself.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. The lawyer did not provide a phone nor did he provide access to a phone. He attempted to get a court injunction preventing the station from airing the report. There was no approval — tacit or otherwise — of the client communicating with the outside world. The jail the provided access to a phone.
The jail LT witnessed, “one of his attorneys giving him a cell phone”. Doesn’t get much clearer than that.
If that was true then the lawyer should be facing charges. The story says “collect call” which sounds to me like he called from the pay phone that the jail has for inmates to use (why would you make a collect call on a cell phone?)
In any case, I’m guessing that NASA did not miss out on recruiting this rocket scientist to their program, although he would probably make a pretty decent point man for the ISIS human mine detector platoon.
This article was poorly written.
He was using the prison phone, which is why we have a recording of the call, and why he had to call collect.
Ordinarily the court would have ordered the article not be published because the jail had violated the order by letting him use the phone. The order said that Cornell was not to be be allowed to communicate with anyone without the lawyer’s permission.
However, it appears the jail argued that since the lawyer provided Cornell a cell phone, and that cell phone could be used to call anyone then the lawyer had therefore given permission for Cornell to be allowed to call anyone he wanted.
…Hence the judge’s comment that the restraining order was poorly written.
They should tax stupidity.
You could balance the federal budget.
Okay, Green Thumb wins it, hands down!!
+100
I’m gonna use that sometime, GT, nicely done.
(slow applause)
Of course the roving genius, his male sperm donor “father” has expressed that his name is now Dindu Nuffin…
It’s one thing when an attorney has an idiot for a client, that’s very common. It’s another when a client has an idiot for an attorney. Especially in a high profile, federal case like this. “Your honor I would like an order that no one speak to my client without my approval”. Judge, “Okay Counselor I’ll so order”. Lead attorney, “Hey Bob, when we go visit Chris today I want to stop by the ATT Wireless store first to grab a new phone for him”. Bob, “Uh, well, okay but you think he’s gonna call anyone he shouldn’t?” Lead attorney, “Naw, he’ll just call his mom and dad probably. He’s got his stuff together I think”.
I offer this. “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?”
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Give a man a cell phone and he’ll eat the rest of his life…in prison.
This turd should have just gone with Bernath.
Not to be confused with the famous rap star, 1-DMF.
he’s from Ohio right? What’s up with his vacilating accent between a native Arab and a native Ohio-type person? He is purely messed up and living out whatever fantasy he has in his head. Doubt he ever would’ve acted out on his mission.
I’m from Ohio, never met someone there with that accent.
Derek, I went back to the article Jonn linked to back in January, and according to that this twerp graduated from Oak Hills High School in 2012. Real young. I’m guessing he’s trying to speak English with an “Arabic” accent so he sounds more authentic.
I am reminded of a couple of Ron White’s quips. The first is “You can’t fix stupid.” The second is “I had the right to remain silent, but I didn’t have the ability.”
Im afraid if this dudes lawyer snuck a saw into the jail to help him escape; he would use the saw to open up his own head and take out his brain and play with it instead.
Apparently the scales have fallen from the father’s eyes:
Oh. My. God. What is that smell?
Could it be – dare I say it? – common sense raising its head?
How did that happen?
Sometimes, the Sweet Light of Reason does make it through to those who deny its wonder.
Feel bad for the father though.
There is no way someone this fucking stupid could figure out how to build a pipe bomb. I wish he would’ve found ISIS in the middle east and became an IED maker for them, he would get every ISIS member around him killed fucking that up.
Perhaps he was building Crack/Meth pipe bombs for experience.