A HALF CENTURY after the Rosenbergs were executed as atom spies, there's really only one nagging question left about the case: Why did two seemingly ordinary people from Manhattan's Lower East Side sacrifice their lives for a distant cause when it meant orphaning the two young sons they claimed to love?
About a crucial issue in the case — why would the four officers do such a thing?
If that's the case, why care about anything?
That being the case, why all the argument about tax rates?
One immediate question arises about these cases: why can Massachusetts require all of its citizens to enroll in a health care plan, but there is some doubt whether the federal government can take the same action?
Over the years, some Democratic lawmakers sought more details about the cases and why the Justice Department took no action.
QUESTION FROM MARY: Toobs, you seem like a nice man, just a lil too obsessive about this case, why focus on why that is now so politically irrelevant?
I spent days talking with family, loved ones, community members – anyone, really – about the case, asking why they thought this happened.
One official with the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because, as a regulator, he was not allowed to speak publicly about the case, questioned why one of the defendants, who had joined Chevron Pacific Indonesia only six months before the official investigation began, was being prosecuted for a project from seven years earlier.
Thus, the first question that must be asked about the case is: Why is Sarah exploring possibilities for mentoring only now?
