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I'm a strong believer in "law and order," and I'm willing to give prosecutors and the police the "benefit of the doubt." However, when some government worker, whether police, prosecutor, or anyone else in the employ of the government, purposely misleads the courts, knowingly falsifies evidence, our outright lies, then whatever the result of that trial happens to be, needs to be conferred on that government worker. For instance, if an innocent man is convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison due to a lying government official, or falsified evidence, whoever planted that evidence or lied, needs to spend that 10 years in prison.

Mark

I have no opinion on the underlying facts, except that the jury seems to have believed the government's version.

However, as to the spat on this thread about the OIG claims, I note the following:

1. The entire source for this story is the press secretary to a Congressman. Presumably the transcript of the hearing mentioned should be available soon, which would tell us exactly what was said by whom,

2. The crux of the complaint seems to be that at some previous meeting, which WND says involved "deputies" from the IG's office, certain claims were made, and that now Skinner (the head man) says that the claims were wrong. Unless there is some claim that SKINNER was in the earlier meeting, it is hard to see how HE is "lying," as some have claimed. I don't read the earlier story as actually making the claim that Skinner was there, though there is some insinuation. And the quote attributd to Skinner that "whoever told who that was wrong" strongly implies that HE wasn't there.

3. Unless there is a transcript of that earlier meeting, I would be interested in any reports from those present as to what was actually said at the earlier meeting, and whether there is any agreement as to what was said there.

Perhaps some of these facts will come out as we go along.

4. I do agree that the trial transcript should be made available, but that is in the hands of the District Court, not the DOJ, and it is not terribly unusual for that to take a few months. Appeals sometimes get delayed considerably by waiting for the transcript.