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Amazing. The Justice Department announced this morning that it will be dropping all charges against former Sen. Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens. Attorney General Eric Holder said that prosecutors improperly withheld evidence from Stevens' attorneys during his trial, in which he was convicted on seven felony corruption charges. Stevens had appealed his case, but due to these embarrassing revelations, the Justice Department now won't even seek a new trial for the former Alaska senator. NPR's Nina Totenberg first reported the story this morning, noting that Holder made the decision to put an end to the Stevens case late yesterday.
U.S. Drops Case Against Ted Stevens
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ClevelandRocks
What? Ted Stevens is walking? A free man?
I want the old man locked up! Throw him in a cell filled with tar sand, wet newspaper, and sara palin's collected interviews and speeches on a continuous loop.
monkeyrotica replied to comment from ClevelandRocks
The Ted Stevens case sends a bad message to our young people; that you can be a lying, corrupt public servant and, so long as you're old and enfeebled, you don't get punished.
I think Ted Stevens should go to prison, make a lot of "new friends," and end up on the wrong end of "a series of tubes."
Over the River replied to comment from monkeyrotica
Bad message? I count on this being the case.
ClevelandRocks replied to comment from Over the River
I would also sentence him to a life of providing dinner theater to old age homes everywhere. Build a cell in the back of a van and he's on tour 300 days a year.
Sullivan had ordered Justice to provide the agency's internal communications regarding a whistle-blower complaint brought by an FBI agent involved in the investigation of Stevens. The agent objected to Justice Department tactics during the trial, including failure to turn over evidence and an ''inappropriate relationship'' between the lead agent on the case and the prosecution's star witness.
Since when has giving a lady a "pearl necklace" indicated an "innapropriate relationship?" Perhaps the lead agent merely had poor aim, or the witness in question just had her hair done and didn't want a mess in her coiffure. "Misdirected woo" happens to the best of us, by which I mean the worst of us, particularly those of us who need a new eyeglass prescription.
Or forgetting to light a candle or two.
Governor Palin to Step Down
By JENNIFER LOVEN – 1 hour ago
Anchorage (AP) — Governor Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP Vice President candidate and governor of the 49th state, announced she is leaving her position as the state’s top executive to run for Sen. Ted Steven’s soon to be vacant seat.
Palin was quoted as saying “the bastard is history”, “sure he can pay off the Justice Department, but can he pay off the Alaskan Independence Party when they have a hard-on for you?” “You betcha not.”
When asked if this would affect a possible bid for the Presidency in 2012, Palin just shrugged her shoulders and said “We’ll cross that bridge to nowhere when we get to it.”
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Okay, I'm waiting for the "April Fools" on this one. Not even subtle.
Uh, April Fool, he's really going to prison?
Isn't there a locality where a jury can say "as citizens with at least a modicum of common sense, we just know he's guilty; lock his ass up"? Hopefully it's the same area where "he just needed killin'" is a valid murder defense. I would like to move to such a place.