It seemed an optimistic assertion at the time, but looks even more so after Cousins struggled badly during his team's 20-6 loss to the Giants on Sunday.
However, since our data is anecdotal, and since the men we interviewed are not statistically representative of all the men who were held in Guantanamo, we cannot make any firm assertions at this time.
(Bratton, who is now the Los Angeles police chief, told me he found that "a very strange assertion," since at the time of his departure the decline in the crime rate was accelerating).
She also repeated her assertion that at the time, the rules weren't clear.
If the assertion was true at the time, it wasn't for long.
He also disputed Saville's assertion that Martin McGuinness, at the time the IRA's number two in the city, had probably been carrying a sub-machine gun on Bloody Sunday.
In its court documents, the civil liberties union called that assertion "fundamentally flawed" and added, "at the time of Mr. Nunez's arrest, permission to enter Zuccotti Park was not Brookfield's to grant, let alone unilaterally withdraw".
Some claim, based on elaborate, conspiracy-minded historical research, that the 16th Amendment was not in fact ratified by three-fourths of the states — contrary to the assertions of the secretary of state at the time, Philander Knox.
They did not dispute that he was carrying a large amount of heroin, but argued for the release of Shaikh based on their assertions that he was mentally ill at the time of the offence saying that the court did not take his condition into account during the trial.
