Government
May 18, 2007
For the Stand-In San Francisco U.S. Attorney, It's All Child Porn All the Time
One would think, from all the high-minded debate in Washington over the allegedly partisan purge of U.S. attorneys, that the independence of these men and women to pursue politically sensitive cases courageously is the very cornerstone of our democracy.




By Peter Blumberg
One would think, from all the high-minded debate in Washington over the allegedly partisan purge of U.S. attorneys, that the independence of these men and women to pursue politically sensitive cases courageously is the very cornerstone of our democracy.
U.S. attorneys spend much of their time prosecuting run-of-the-mill crimes according to an agenda heavily dictated by the...
One would think, from all the high-minded debate in Washington over the allegedly partisan purge of U.S. attorneys, that the independence of these men and women to pursue politically sensitive cases courageously is the very cornerstone of our democracy.
U.S. attorneys spend much of their time prosecuting run-of-the-mill crimes according to an agenda heavily dictated by the...
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