A jury found the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, guilty on four of the five counts he was charged with, including lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice. I obviously didn't see all of the testimony, but color me skeptical that justice was done. Special prosecutor […]
Jurors are still deliberating former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's fate in the trial over nothing. But the "Media Blog" over at National Review Online highlights this column by Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell regarding the op-ed piece by Victoria Toensing I highlighted last week. While Toensing is a partisan, she […]
Here's a few articles from the past week or so that you really shouldn't miss. The Los Angeles Times story on 2nd Lt. Mark Jennings Daily. John Leo looks at how speech codes on campus have been stifling -- mostly conservative -- speech. Judge Gibson Lee should be recalled after giving eight black youths probation […]
The recent decision by the Bush administration to request the resignations of a handful of U.S. attorneys has resulted in the Senate once again trying to usurp powers delegated specifically to the president. U.S. attorneys are part of the Justice Department -- the executive branch -- and serve at the pleasure of the president. It […]
It's interesting to read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article and the Seattle Times article on the mistrial of Lt. Ehren Watada side by side. (For those unfamiliar with Lt. Watada, he has been a favorite of anti-war rallies of late because he contends that the Iraq War is illegal and has refused a lawful order to […]
Well, it looks as though we're now just one more short step from getting justice in the Duke lacrosse "rape" case: Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has asked the North Carolina Attorney General for a special prosecutor to replace him. For some good analysis, I encourage you to check out K.C. Johnson's site: Durham-in-Wonderland. There's […]
Durham County District Attorney Mike "Prosecutorial Misconduct" Nifong has dropped first-degree forcible rape charges against three Duke lacrosse players. According to the dismissal form, investigator Linwood Wilson interviewed the accuser on Thursday. "The victim in this case indicated that, while she initially believed that she had been vaginally penetrated by a male sex organ ... […]
A judge today sentenced lawyer Lynne Stewart to 28 months in jail for helping a convicted terrorist continue to run his terrorism group from behind bars. She could've been sentenced to 30 years. Once again, it seems like judges aren't too well-equipped to prosecute the war on terrorism. "If you send her to prison, she's […]
The details still aren't clear, but it appears that CIA interrogators can aggressively question terrorist suspects without running afoul of the Geneva Conventions. Andrew McCarthy reports: Early predictions that the President was getting rolled seem to have been greatly exaggerated. And the McCain bloc got its principles validated without disabling the CIA program, which they […]
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, having solved all the other problems facing the state, has decided to sue carmakers over greenhouse gas emissions. Lockyer - a Democratic candidate for state treasurer in the November election - said the lawsuit states that under federal and state common law the automakers have created a public nuisance by […]