"With their misplaced prosecutorial overzealousness the Justice Department has now compromised a perfectly legitimate investigation and allowed yet another DemocRAT to escape the consequence of his mischief and mayhem."
I am not so sure about that. The Justice Department was doing their job. That does not mean that Jefferson's case is lost or won. It also does not mean that the Justice Department was overzealous, nor that their prosecutorial stance was misplaced.
The momentum of debate has shifted from the guilt or innocence of William Jefferson to the propriety of the FBI search.
Top officials have threatened to resign, the evidence so necessary for prosecution has been impounded for (at least) another 45 days following eight months of bureaucratic dithering and Republicans are now offered the choice of closing ranks behind a bad precedent or to engage in civil war with their own President.
As Freeper Billbears once observed: "Reaganism, this ain't"
Best regards,