Government
Apr. 11, 2007
Lobbying Prosecutors Isn't Invariably Corrupting
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Before the Legislature gets much more excited about the U.S. attorney scandal, it should consider fixes that do not rule out benign communications between prosecutors and legislators.
By Peter Scheer
The spectacle of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales twisting in the wind, struggling to explain one misstatement after another about the purge of eight US attorneys, presents a number of ironies, especially to observers in California.
For starters, there's Congress' feigned dismay in discovering that federal prosecutors are s...
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