Complex Case Ahead for Prosecutors

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:02 AM
Subject: re: Complex Case Ahead for Prosecutors
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To the Editor:

   After two and a half years of "looking forwards and not backwards", the Obama Department of Justice is finally engaging in law enforcement. This is welcome; it is in the past, of course that evidence of wrongdoing will be found. Yet it is troubling that the department's finite resources are allocated to prosecuting senator Edwards.  Edwards admits that he broke faith with his wife and with his backers, but that's not a crime. On the other hand, we know that men were waterboarded while in U.S. custody, that waterboarding is torture and that torture is a crime.  The role of money in our political campaigns needs to be redefined, but that is a matter for the Congress and the courts. Attorney General Holder needs to be prosecuting war crimes and not a senator's amorous adventures.

Barry Levine