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Mike needed a way to win. Is it more complex?: Who is Mike's boss and is there an agenda? Is it even more complex?

Nope. Nifong was going to lose. He was willing to commit a crime rather than lose. It is no more complicated than that.

Who is Mike's boss's boss?

As I have said before, Nifong is a life-long drone in the DA's office. From his position in life, the DA seemed to be god. He was the boss. He anwered to nobody.

And in fact in the real world we give DAs much latitude so that they can prosecute without outside influence. That is usually thought to be a good thing. But in the hands of an ego maniac who thinks he is god like Nifong, this latitude led to him committing a crime to get elected.

This case is just too weird. One has to think that either Mike is a totally irrational and possibly suicidal (career-wise, anyway) nutcase to pursue this; or, somebody has their hooks in him.

He is not irrational. He is completely rational from his point of view. He believed he was answerable to nobody as DA. He knew he had to do something to win the primary and he did it. He is learning every one answer to someone even DAs.

After the primary he kept this going becaue the petition drives in the general were on going and he knew that he had to go to trial to avoid being investigated and maybe charged.

The best news in all of this is he picked these defendants to act like this about. Durham was lucky to get a high profile case like this where the criminal Nifong is was revealed. The get a chance to throw him out and have the information that he is dangerous before he has been in office long and had long to ruin many lives. The only question now is whether or not Durham will take advantage of their good fortune.