Ay Pee, so short version:
One of the Justice Department lawyers involved in the prosecution of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (of the Bridge to Nowhere fame) had committed suicide. He was one of several lawyers involved in securing the conviction of Stevens for corruption - the conviction that was later set aside amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. The investigation into the actions of several of the prosecutors involved in the case is ongoing.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
09/28/2010 13:26 ||
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Hmmm. Story didn't specify...was the body found here by any chance? Just wonderin'...
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) ||
09/28/2010 15:01 Comments ||
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Or perhaps a gunshot wound to the back of the head?
Posted by: Martini ||
09/28/2010 15:43 Comments ||
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Was the gentleman generally depressed, or was the choice to kill himself related to the case? If the former, this is sad, but unfortunately common. If the latter, a possible matter of concern depending on what about the case caused him to act.
Bottom line, there isn't enough information here to know whether or not to be concerned.
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Hmmm. Prosecutorial misconduct that causes a Republic Senator to become falsely tainted in the last weeks of an election, helping to change the political composition of the Senate and helping usher in Obamacare, and the stimulus, etc....
Now he feels such remorse after the ex-Senator's recent death that he offs himself, just when an inquiry might point to where the pressure actually came from to initiate the prosecution and hide the evidence, someplace more lofty in Washington perhaps?.
Gee, is anyone looking very carefully into the possibility this wasn't suicide? It does have a certain Fosteresque scent to it doesn't it?
Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is coming under bipartisan fire for releasing an ad that compares Republican opponent Daniel Webster to the Taliban and takes his quotes on the role of women blatantly out of context.
The narrator in the ad accuses "Taliban Dan Webster" of wanting to "impose his radical fundamentalism on us," interspersing snippets of a speech Webster gave at a 2009 Christian event. Without any context, Webster is showing saying, "wives submit yourself to your own husband" and "she should submit to me. That's in the Bible."
But Webster released the unedited original footage, which shows the congressional candidate preaching the exact opposite. In the full tape, Webster urges listeners to write down a Bible verse, so long as it doesn't have anything to do with wives submitting to their husbands.
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After reading about this guy's antics for the past couple of years, all I can come away with is that he doesn't have any sense of shame. He has such a robust ego that he can't be convinced that the things he does might be inappropriate.
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Did Rep Grayson protest when recently the US government acted as an auxiliary to the Afghan/Taliban religious police by bullying a Florida resident into waiving his 1st Amendment Rights to free speech and free exercise of his religion?
They were the president's fave Jews, guaranteed to give him a reason to think ill of Israel. But now it's been revealed they secretly got $750,000 from George Soros -- and lied about it -- plus $811,697 from a woman in Hong Kong... and suddenly J Streeters are persona non grata.
Apparently the J Streeters outright lied about it when asked... repeatedly and to various news outlets. Either they also lied to the White House, or they... didn't. Neither reflects well on those doing the vetting.
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