There was an article in this morning's Star-Telegram reporting that the prosecuter in the recent tobaco trials was ordered to change the government's case so as to prevent the government from prevailing.
I have tried to find an internet link to that article without any luck, because I think, particularly in light of the questions being raised in Congress over improper political influence in the "prosecuter firings" by Bush, it is importtant that everyone have facts about undue influence of the federal justice system.
(I am convince that the reason Fitzgerald brought no direct criminal charges in the Plame leak case after clearly collecting sufficient evidence that a number of Administration appointees and people did indeed knowingly conspire to and make known to the media the identity is a secret operative for our nation. Even republican appointed specially selected prosecuters can be threatened and directed to conform to political ends, if an administration is willing to do do.)
Posted by bdgee on :
On the evening news tpnight (ABC, I think), Vermont Senator, Patrick Leahy, said that his committe had already collected evidence of the Justice department's political appointees dictating legal tactics to the prosecuter of the tobacco trial and that was going to be part of the Senate investigation of the Administion using undue influence to give favor to republican backers.