C. 390 BCE c. 324 BCE Lycurgus, (born c. 390 bc died c. 324) Athenian statesman and orator noted for his efficient financial administration and vigorous prosecutions of officials charged with corruption.
Even more important to his stature within the department itself, he will need to address accusations that the department's ranks and their work were politicized under Mr. Gonzales, with experienced United States attorneys replaced because they were insufficiently loyal to the administration and with prosecutions pursued on partisan grounds.
But thus far the Court has failed to convict any of those it has indicted and, what's worse, has been characterized by chaotic administration and sloppy prosecutions.
Mr. Weller's sympathy for the soldiers and his antipathy to the Bush administration and its prosecution of the Iraq war are not hard to glean.
"Our office has already launched an investigation into police misconduct in this case, specifically for obstruction of governmental administration and hindering prosecution," said Joseph Petrosino, the chief of the felony trial division and a prosecutor in the trial.
The Police and Justice Bill proposes to merge the Prisons Inspectorate with four other inspectorates, those of police, probation, court administration and the Crown Prosecution Service.
But the Khadr case could prove to be another lightning rod in the debate over the administration's detention and prosecution decisions, sparking the kind of international scrutiny that few other military tribunals will generate.
This is honorable but infuriating, and so is his refusal to take a public stand on the war in Iraq while our soldiers are deployed there, though precepts of his that emerge in "The Fog of War" take clear issue with the Bush Administration's planning and prosecution of our latest might of arms.
If the media demands for prosecution of the elite banking frauds expand there is a chance to create a bipartisan coalition in Congress and the administration supporting prosecutions.
What will you do when liberals, over Mr. Obama's objections, encourage Congress, the courts and the Justice Department to pursue investigations and prosecutions concerning the Bush administration's surveillance and interrogation policies?
