From the People who Let Scooter Libby Go
In the Washington Post Today:
WASHINGTON -- A seething federal judge dismissed the corruption conviction of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens on Tuesday and took the rare and serious step of ordering a criminal investigation into prosecutors who poisoned the case. "In nearly 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case," U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said.
What a coincidence! A Bush administration prosecution of a sitting U. S. Senator is the worst prosecutorial misconduct this judge has ever seen. I wonder what the odds are against that? Luckily, we have no reason, no reason at all, to suspect that the Bush prosecutors did anything but their best work, right? I mean, since most of them got their degrees at Regent University School of Law.
Now, on the other hand, we have the spectacle of a Justice Department that would rather let a clearly guilty criminal, even from the other party, go free, rather than degrade our justice system. That's a new one, huh?
WASHINGTON -- A seething federal judge dismissed the corruption conviction of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens on Tuesday and took the rare and serious step of ordering a criminal investigation into prosecutors who poisoned the case. "In nearly 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case," U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said.
What a coincidence! A Bush administration prosecution of a sitting U. S. Senator is the worst prosecutorial misconduct this judge has ever seen. I wonder what the odds are against that? Luckily, we have no reason, no reason at all, to suspect that the Bush prosecutors did anything but their best work, right? I mean, since most of them got their degrees at Regent University School of Law.
Now, on the other hand, we have the spectacle of a Justice Department that would rather let a clearly guilty criminal, even from the other party, go free, rather than degrade our justice system. That's a new one, huh?
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