"How could he go after them? "
Ask Elmostafa the cabbie; the ex-husband of the accuser in the Duke case; her boyfriend; her girlfriend (all of whom were arrested after the lacrosse case began).
Ask the three indicted in the lacrosse case (cleared by DNA, but still seven months later the charges are not dropped).
Ask any of the Duke students who were harassed by Durham police, placed in cells with common criminals, told they had no rights when they complained, searched without warrants, etc.
Ask anyone arrested by the Durham police on the blank warrants handed out by Nifong's predecessor, to be filled in as needed.
Ask Leon Brown, jailed for a year on ludicrous charges of rape (even though the DNA matched another person).
Ask Demorris Lee, the reporter jailed for getting too close to Durham PD corruption.
Ask the correctional officer accused of rape, whose exculapatory evidence consisted of some phone tapes, which 'accidently' got taped over while in the DA's possession--fortunately an expert was called in over the prosecution's objections and was able to reconstruct the original conversations, and the man was shown to be innocent.
And the list goes on. . .
OK, so how does that effect bloggers spread out across the ether?
Wow! For corruption like that, I thought you had to go to Philly or Chicago.