The job of a prosecutor is to secure convictions. Period.
Reading just the article, I’m must say we have a rouge prosecutor here.
Mike Nifong II
Yeah. Scooter Libby.
Of course. All the time. But we mostly don’t give two craps about those people. And this case? ‘Twas ever thus.
“As the case progressed, the government’s own witnesses were forced to concede that Blackhawk helicopters, equipped with the part in question, had actually been sold to China with U.S. government approval, demolishing the government’s claim of a breach of secrecy. Not only that, but the prosecution was aware of these sales before the case was ever brought.