He declared that he was being tried for his political convictions rather than for any real crime or misdemeanor and requested a one-month postponement to prepare a defense.
The assistant district attorney for the case, the crowd was informed, was seriously ill with pneumonia and had been granted a one-month postponement.
These probes, along with intense scrutiny from Congress, were triggered by two recent episodes: the discovery that FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Philip Hanssen had spied for the Russians and the FBI's failure to turn over thousands of pages of documents to lawyers for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh, which forced a one-month postponement of his execution.
It is conceivable that people understand postponement of adverse outcomes better than risk reductions because we are used to judging time and can easily distinguish for example one week from one month or one year.
The government said the six-month postponement would "give space for the domestic investigation process".
Mickelson won at Pebble Beach in 1998, when bad weather forced a six-month postponement of the final round until August.
Mr. Koons was finally due to close last month, but asked for a two-month postponement, several people briefed on the transaction say.
They warned President Obama not to offer a two-month postponement of the spending cuts as part of the deal to avert the fiscal cliff.
Then, he said,"we finally broke the code". Oracle played its one "postponement card" on Sept. 10, after it had recorded its first win (negated by a pre-regatta penalty) only to lose to New Zealand again.
When necessary, the Director may grant one further postponement, but the total postponement shall not exceed 90 days from the reporting date on the induction order.
The operational safety and unpreparedness factors of an hostile environment caused at least a one year postponement to reassess the technology, but not the intent of this effort.
