[Quilla]

Pickering set a sentencing date of January 3, 1995. As the date approached, he waited for an answer from the Justice Department. He asked in November, 1994 and received no response. He asked again in December and received no response. He asked again on January 2, the day before the sentencing, and still received no response. He delayed sentencing, and on January 4 wrote a strongly-worded order to prosecutors demanding not only that they respond to his questions but that they take the issue up personally with Attorney General Janet Reno and report back within ten days.

I thought this was a pretty telling paragraph as well. The Clinton Justice Department asleep at the wheel again.

[Bahbah]

Thanks for posting this, Quilla. I just e-mailed it to my somewhat liberal daughter in law school.

[PhiKapMom]

That paragraph jumped out at me too. Clinton's DOJ gets off two guys but not the 3rd and then his stoolies in the Senate try to block Pickering for giving the 3rd guy a break. That does not pass the smell test!

Don't you wonder why two guys got off with the Clinton DOJ but not the 3rd?