[socrates_shoe]

Nothing like a few hundred thousand dollars thrown down a rat hole for no purpose except to highlight that, whatever the effects of drugs, the "war on drugs" has rotted public officials' common sense.

[seacapn]

Crazy things happen when the government has a personal vendetta against you.

[an amused spectator]

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

[SteveMcKing]

He broke the law.

Change the law if you can, but he should be pursued so long as he has broken it.

[goldstategop]

Yep. It just shows federal prosecutors are as brain dead as Mike Nifong.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[microgood]

The abuses of the Justice Department and DEA related to the Drug War are a disgrace. Karen Tandy from the DEA is a real piece of work as is John Walters. Bush sure appointed a lot of people to Justice who will break any law and violate anyone's rights to attain their ends.

I will be relieved when Bush's Justice Department is history. Maybe then doctors will actually be able to prescribe pain medication again.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

(our tax dollars on drugs)

OR:

Their drugs on our tax dollars

It's a stumper ...

/h

[Wormwood]

I can’t *wait* until this batch of federal prosecutors are fired.

[SmithL]

Breyer, Charles R.

Born 1941 in San Francisco, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of California
Nominated by William J. Clinton on July 24, 1997, to a seat vacated by D. Lowell Jensen; Confirmed by the Senate on November 8, 1997, and received commission on November 12, 1997.

Education:
Harvard College, A.B., 1963

University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D., 1966

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Oliver Carter, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1966-1967
Counsel, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, California, 1967
Assistant district attorney, District Attorney's Office, City & County of San Francisco, California, 1967-1973
Assistant special prosecutor, Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 1973-1974
Private practice, San Francisco, California, 1974-1979
Chief assistant district attorney, District Attorney's Office, City and County of San Francisco, California, 1979
Private practice, San Francisco, California, 1980-1997

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

[robertpaulsen]

Good. Get a felony conviction on record for this jagoff.

[Labyrinthos]

I bet the libs wished that Gonzolas had fired this particular U.S. Attorney.

[mysterio]

Waste of money. Just like the entire failed war on some drugs. We should put the entire drug war to a nationwide ballot vote. Those who vote “yes” to keep it have to put down their name and address. Then they get monthly bills to pay for it. Because I don’t want my money anywhere near that freedom sucking, authoritarian statist failed drug war.

[hodaka]

I always like watching the drug bust that are made on that television show Cops. Most of the time they have around ten police officers busting people for buying or selling small bags of pot. I will bet you that it cost the police department more in what they paid in man power compared to what they actually seize.

[Chena]

Nothing like a few hundred thousand dollars thrown down a rat hole for no purpose except to highlight that, whatever the effects of drugs, the "war on drugs" has rotted public officials' common sense.

Isn't THAT the truth. It makes me sick.

[Moonman62]

My guess is that a conviction on the new cultivation charges will lead to a refiling of the tax and money laundering charges.