O/T and tongue-in-cheek (somewhat, but with a grain of truth): It's all Bush's fault. :>
Seriously, if he had cleaned the rats out of the Justice Dept. when he took office, there's a good chance that there would be a civil rights case underway in the Duke lax matter as we speak with regard to Liefong, the cops, and probably even Brodhead. When the Clintons took office, they fired most of the U.S. attorneys office and put their own far-left radical lawyers in. They sure do come in handy at times like this. Bush left them in, and neither Ashcroft nor Gonzales have made any moves to flush them.