Prosecutors, in their letter, echoed arguments they made at bail hearings in Manhattan on Thursday for three other suspected agents.
Judge Parker has allowed the examinations and cross-examinations of the witnesses, much of it in closed sessions because it involved classified information, to go on far longer than is usual at bail hearings.
The district judge who presided over Raissi's case gave the CPS a lot of leeway at bail hearings in response to its claim the US had evidence against him, but eventually released him, stating "the court has received no evidence at all".
His lawyer expressed disappointment at bail being denied, but said his client would be exonerated.
Silverman, the attorney who is not involved in the case, said at bail hearings judges are supposed to evaluate the nature of the charges, the risk of flight and danger to the community — not the disputed facts of the case.
As Sarah Campbell, a research and policy manager at Bail for Immigration Detainees explained to me, many FNOs are residents "that have been in the UK for years, in some cases decades" often with "children born and brought up here".
