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Sunday April 12, 2009 · 10:44 AM PDT

2009/04/12 · 10:44

really, we should be reexamining the Ted Stevens court decision. There is something smelly going on.

I'm sorry but I don't believe that the Bush DOJ, with it long history of attacking Democrats, could have been totally tone-deaf to what it was doing in the good Senator's case. With everything else it was willing to sweep under the rug or just ignore, what would have driven them to take on of their own to court? I smell a rat.
Here's what I think went down. Stevens' violations of the law were so obvious that it became clear to everyone that he had to be indicted. So, who better to indict and try him than the rock solid Bush DOJ. They would get points from the liberal press for trying one of their own - a handy thing by which to obsecure all the others who were NOT indicted...like Gonzales, Cheney, et.al. But how could they indict and try a fellow Republican? It would mess up that image.
Well, not necessarily. What if they DELIBERATELY engaged in unfair tactics...tactics that surely would be reviewed by the next DOJ...a DOJ that would be concerned about things they have NOT be concerned about, like justice and prosecutorial misconduct...something constitutional professor President Obama could not ignore. So they proceed to do precisely that. They build into his case a Get-out-of-jail card that Eric Holder would have to punch!
Yes, it might cost Stevens his seat in Congress but it would keep him out of jail and give him the ability to say in the furture that he was "proven innocent of all charges in a court of law." This was a deal that Stevens could not pass up: betting the possible loss of his Senate seat - not his pension - against a 99.99% sure deal of the case being thrown out of court. Who, in Stevens' shoes, would not take that deal?
Of course, everyone who has followed the evidence, not the prosecutor's errors, knows that he was as guilty as sin...but why should reality interfere with Stevens trying his hand at revisionist history. Isn't that what Republicans do best?

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