Mr Friedersdorf's bill of indictment is damning, and hard to dispute:1.
I have been the director of media relations at the Drug Policy Alliance for ten years and this is one of the hardest hitting indictments against the drug war I've ever seen.
He lectured and wrote against slavery, with "Slavery in Massachusetts," a lecture delivered in 1854, as his hardest indictment.
So the government may be taking a harder look at indictments in this incident. The likeliest targets: Donald Vidrine and Robert Kaluza, the two highest-ranking BP men on board at the time of the explosion.
Prosecutors use the grand jury and only seek indictments on 1st degree murder, charges hard to stick, when they could easily get an indictment on lesser charges of manslaughter (voluntary or involuntary).
"The statistics speak for themselves and the cold, hard fact remain an indictment on all of us," Dodson said.
Although officials trumpeted the case as a triumph in the fight to protect both children and intellectual property, the indictment also makes it clear just how hard it is to stop the flood of illegal consumer goods into the United States.
"They put together a cogent indictment, one that demonstrated a lot of hard work, and in-depth analysis that I was not always sure they were willing to do," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Wrapping up a two-year investigation of for-profit colleges, Senator Tom Harkin will issue a final report on Monday — a voluminous, hard-hitting indictment of almost every aspect of the industry, filled with troubling statistics and anecdotes drawn from internal documents of the 30 companies investigated.
Chief investigative reporter Brian Ross and producer Anna Schecter presented a hard-hitting indictment of standard industry practices, such as lifelong confinement and tail docking and dehorning without anesthetic.
