New twist in former Sen. Stevens case

[Ichingcarpenter]

Source: Seattle Times

Seemingly stunned by the conduct of the Justice Department in the weeks following former Sen. Ted Stevens' trial, the judge in the case has ordered U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to provide an accounting for how his prosecutors handled a whistle-blower complaint last month.

By 5 p.m. Saturday, Mukasey or a high-level designate was to have turned in a so-called "declaration" regarding who knew what and when about the whistle-blower status of an FBI agent who criticized the government's handling of the case, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered on Friday.

"This Court is very sensitive to the extremely important, numerous, and competing demands made on high-level government officials such as the Attorney General, and therefore the Court does not ordinarily burden officials at that level with matters that can be addressed by others," Sullivan wrote.

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008642359_stevens18.html

[uppityperson]

1. "the appearance that several attorneys...may have intentionally withheld important information....

"the appearance that several attorneys in this matter — in multiple departments within the Department of Justice — may have intentionally withheld important information from the Court"

Good. Get the facts out there.

[midnight]

2. What is the difference if police or attorney's do it?

[slampoet]

6. Easy. If you disbarr an attorney he stops being a lawyer. The cop just becomes a cop elsewhere.

Just like molester priests.

[L. Coyote]

4. Providing an excuse for a mistrial ? purposefully sandbagging justice to save Stevens ??

More Bush politicization of justice, by destroying the prosecution and convivtion of a co-conspirator!

[Ian David]

3. Sounds like Teddy should save room in his cell for Mukasey. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Ahhhh....such good news.