Posted on 04/06/2009 3:22:21 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
Greg Pollowitz points me to this report from the Anchorage Daily News, that the judge in the failed corruption prosecution of former Sen. Ted Stevens is still fuming at the Justice Department. The paper reports that Judge Emmet Sullivan, "on his own, without a request by either party" issued a pair of orders over the weekend, "indicating he may not be ready to give up jurisdiction of the case even as the government is asking for all charges to be dismissed." The report elaborates that the judge
directed federal prosecutors to provide him copies of everything they had gathered in the post-trial reviews and investigations and which they had provided to Stevens' defense attorneys. He also directed them to provide everything they had uncovered and produced related to the complaint by Anchorage FBI agent Chad Joy into the conduct of the Alaska corruption investigation and the prosecution of Stevens' case.... Sullivan also demanded the notes of prosecutors from an April 15, 2008, interview of former Veco Corp. chief executive Bill Allen. It was the discovery of those notes two weeks ago by a new prosecution team that led Attorney General Eric Holder to seek dismissal of all charges against Stevens "in the interest of justice." The notes directly contradicted a key piece of Allen's testimony six months later at Stevens' trial and should have been turned over to the defense, Holder said....
Judge Sullivan also directed the government not to "destroy any evidence or documents connected to the case," including e-mails, notes, memos, investigative files, audio recordings, etc.
At least based on what's reported here, these are lawless orders. Judge Sullivan though he no doubt has the best of intentions should stand down.
(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...
I so hope that there are traceable items right back to the DNC!
It was an acute case of spell-check palsy.
The dismissal wasn’t in the “interest of justice” as Holder stated, but because they wanted to sweep this under the rug.
I’m no fan of Stevens, but the whole investigation sure benefited the Dems. The GOP ought to target Beigch hard in 2014. Perhaps conservatives should settle on this long term plan. Have Palin reclaim the Stevens’s Senate seat in 2014. The GOP retakes a Senate seat, and Palin could thumb her nose at the moonbats who have a pathological hatred of her. And in 2016, we run the ticket of Sanford / Jindal to clean up the Marxist mess by the Messiah. This way everyone wins.
My fingers stutter.
Are you already conceding 2012? Sure, Barry's got a 60% approval rating 42 months before the election. But GHWB had a nearly 92% approval rating just 22 months before the election, and look how that turned out.
Yes I do see 2012 as a lost cause. The Messiah loses in 2012 only if inflation and taxes rise, and unemployment is in the double digits. Also by 2012 we may be in an economic recovery. The media will spin any economic news as proof of the Messiah ability to heal the world. The negative aspects of the Messiah’s policies probably won’t take effect until his 2nd term.
Thefore I sugguest we pull the sacfricial lambs of either:
1) Jon Huntsman
2) Mitt Romney
3) Mike Huckabee
4) Newt
We could also be in a garden variety depression. I'm as pessimistic as anybody about the GOP in the near-term. But, as I said, anything can happen in 48 months - anything. The economy wasn't even a real issue until 6 months before this past election.
I'd say that this recession truly isn't like any others before it, if only for one reason - never before has the world's economy, and our economy been as inter-dependent has it is today. While economist may predict an end to the recession sometime late this year, in all practical reality, they're just taking a somewhat education wild-a$$ guess. This could be a horrible downturn that will last years, not months.
William M. Welch II: What will Teddy Kennedy get you
if you eliminate a Republican Senator?
http://news.google.com | April 2, 2009 | Smash Mouth Politics
Posted on 04/05/2009 10:51:07 AM PDT by Maelstorm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222812/posts
Can Ted Stevens Sue the Government . . . And Win?
http://blogs.wsj.com | April 2, 2009 | By Ashby Jones
Posted on 04/05/2009 11:03:53 AM PDT by Maelstorm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222817/posts
Why The Truth Doesn’t Matter...........(Because we are the agenda’s enemy !)
Intellectual Conservative | April 3rd, 2009 | Phillip Ellis Jackson
Posted on 04/04/2009 9:27:58 AM PDT by IrishMike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222311/posts
Huh? I aint no lawyer, and I never stayed in a Motel 6, either!
Have they asked for all their emails and coorespondences with Dem law makers?
While the economy was a house of cards, it was not the problem it is until the meltdown was announced on TV and the MSM made it a campaign issue. They blew the horn of doom and despair continuously and did the classic "Bush's fault" gambit through the election to justify the looting of taxpayers and election of Democrats, many of whom created the problem.
Now they are blowing the trumpet of recovery, but things are not rebounding as strongly as they tanked, and we are trillions poorer. They will spin the situation as they spin it, but iirc, we are seeing the greatest pump-and-dump ever pulled.
In addition, "economic recovery" has turned out to be the stalking horse for socialist programs which would never have passed otherwise. We have gone from the "New Deal" to the "Raw Deal" and the media helped make it happen.
Ha! I’ll just have to claim temporary insanity on that one. I guess I confused your name with someone else with whom I’d had a previous legal discussion.
Actually, that's the reasoning from Andrew McCarthy, who has been a consistent apologist for the DOJ and overzealous attorneys in the DOJ.
The judge had already found the attorney's in contempt a month or two ago and postponed "punishment" until the end of the trial. Judge Sullivan certainly has the authority and the responsibility for following through on that.
Judge Emmett Sullivan is the most respected jurist in D.C., and possibly the country.
That he is so outraged by this prosecution is what makes the accusations against prosecutors so newsworthy.
He should be applauded for his efforts in this case, not demeaned.
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