Who Are The Stevens Six?

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Who Are The Stevens Six? | TPMMuckraker:

[T]hese [six Justice Department pros­e­cu­tors who worked on the Ted Stevens case] are by and large career pros­e­cu­tors, none of whom have obvi­ous records of polit­i­cal activism on either side. These were seri­ous mis­steps by vet­er­ans who should have known better—and an inde­pen­dent pros­e­cu­tor will deter­mine whether they were delib­er­ate enough to qual­ify as con­tempt. But by all appear­ances, they were the prod­uct of incom­pe­tence, poor over­sight, turf wars, and an overzeal­ous approach to the job, which led them to run roughshod over estab­lished legal procedure—rather than of the overt politi­ciza­tion we saw, for instance, in the US Attorney fir­ings scandal.

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