Given that the C.I.A. doesn't engage in prosecutions and court action, what is meant by 'This ends now'?
I would now like to address the disturbing allegations that the government engaged in selective prosecution or racial profiling in its investigation and prosecution of Dr. Lee.
The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold hearings shortly on whether the Justice Department engaged in selective prosecution in two other cases: when it went after Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, who is serving more than seven years in prison on dubious charges, and Georgia Thompson, a Wisconsin civil servant who was freed after serving four months on baseless corruption charges.
The complaint alleges that police committed unreasonable seizure and excessive force, falsely arrested Baker, and engaged in malicious prosecution.
The Intercept granted the source's request for anonymity because the materials are classified and because the U.S. government has engaged in aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers.
The case could become the centerpiece of a Democratic effort to show that the Justice Department engaged in political prosecutions.
Yesterday, an assistant United States attorney, Patricia E. Notopoulos, said the order was that "people were to be killed because of the manner in which they engaged in certain prosecutions".
"We're worried that Sessions could move in a different direction and engage in mass prosecution or mass police action against people who are following our state laws," he explains to me in his DC office.
I had an opportunity to speak with Dinesh after the screening, and asked if he was alluding to the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, which brought the charges, engaging in selective prosecution.
Furthermore, he charged that in using the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations act originally intended for prosecuting organized crime figures, the prosecution was engaged in overkill.
