Reply #121: DUer Hissyspit: NYTimes Editorial: Another Layer of Scandal (Wisconsin/Georgia Thompson Case)

[L. Coyote]

This scandal is turning into a multi-headed cobra. To what extent has the US Dept. of Justice become a neocon political tool?

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Hissyspit Sun Apr-08-07 08:45 PM
NYTimes Editorial: Another Layer of Scandal (Wisconsin/Georgia Thompson Case)
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Published: April 9, 2007 - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/opinion/09mon1.html?hp
As Congress investigates the politicization of the United States attorney offices by the Bush administration, it should review the extraordinary events the other day in a federal courtroom in Wisconsin. The case involved Georgia Thompson, a state employee sent to prison on the flimsiest of corruption charges just as her boss, a Democrat, was fighting off a Republican challenger. It just might shed some light on a question that lurks behind the firing of eight top federal prosecutors: what did the surviving attorneys do to escape the axe?

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The Chicago-based United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit seemed shocked by the injustice of her conviction. It took the extraordinary step of releasing Ms. Thompson from prison immediately after hearing arguments, without waiting to issue a ruling. One of the judges hinted that Ms. Thompson may have been railroaded. “It strikes me that your evidence is beyond thin,” Judge Diane Wood told the lawyer from Mr. Biskupic’s office ...

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