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Judge Orders Investigation of Liberal Prosecutors in Stevens Case
Gateway Pundit —
A federal judge called the case against Alaska Senator Ted Stevens the worst mishandling and misconduct he'd seen in 25 years. Stevens was defeated by a Democrat challenger in November after he was convicted of crime less than one week before the election. The charges have since been dropped. The New York Times reported: A furious federal judge on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of ordering that the prosecutors who bungled the case of former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska be investigated for possible criminal wrongdoing. ...
Lest we forget, it was George Bush's Justice Dept. that botched the Stevens prosecution
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
It was odd enough that Bush's Justice Department was going after Stevens, but that they'd apparently break the rules at the same time, in order to go after a fellow Republican, begs a lot of questions. ...
ThinkFast: April 8, 2009
Think Progress —
... “A federal judge dismissed the ethics conviction of former Senator Ted Stevens” while also “taking the extraordinary step of naming a special prosecutor to investigate whether the government lawyers who ran the Stevens case should themselves be prosecuted for criminal wrongdoing.” Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said that he had “never seen mishandling and misconduct” like what he saw in the Stevens case. ...
Stevens: Justice Was Served (Damn!)
The Latest on Air America —
Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is irascible, choleric and was the longest serving Republican in the Senate. He rarely smiles and is the personification of the old fart and royal pain in the arse. He's 112 years old and pulls the wings off of butterflies. Mother Teresa would've slapped him and Will Rogers wouldn't have liked him. And those are his good points. Stevens was the walking poster boy for the necessity of term limits. Fine. But what our government did to him in its corruption prosecution was worse than anything this curmudgeon ever did or was alleged to have done. The New York Times reports ...
Did Mukasey Ignore Evidence Of Misconduct In Stevens Case?
TPMMuckraker —
... Mukasey didn't respond to a request for comment from the New York Times, which also noted Judge Sullivan's criticisms of the former AG yesterday. If Mukasey or his camp do respond, we'll keep you posted as usual. ...
Lionel: Stevens: Justice Was Served (Damn!)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The New York Times reports that his case was dismissed after a series of unfathomable errors, negligence and, worse, the deliberate withholding of exculpatory evidence by Department of, get this, Justice prosecutors and officers of the court. Newly-minted A.G. Eric Holder asked that the charges be dismissed after more evidence of prosecutorial concealment was discovered. ...
Bush Officials Compromised Renzi Investigation for Political Gain
Firedoglake —
... , is being investigated by one Federal Court for malfeasance, and is being lambasted by several other courts. PIN would also, of course, have been central to the Renzi investigation. So who is going to investigate whom here without a special prosecutor? Waas describes the the OPR and DOJ-IG being involved: ...
Report: US Government Owns Abu-Zubaida’s Thoughts
Firedoglake —
... tribunal or federal court prosecution. This restriction of information and, literally to some extent thought control, by the government completely destroys any meaningful interaction with his attorney and places a choke hold on the ability of the attorney to represent his client. This is antithetical to the edicts the United States, and its justice system, is founded upon. Courts across the United States daily dismiss cases, sometimes at the behest of the government such as in the Ted Stevens prosecution, because the government is not forthcoming with evidence they ...
