"The current DOJ wouldn't know prosecutorial misconduct if it bit them," she said.
"And it is just plain dishonest for President Obama to say his hands are tied and there is nothing more he can do under the current law with regards to prosecutorial discretion.
He bitterly complained that individual case distinctions have been lost in "the current maelstrom of a media and prosecutorial frenzy".
It claims jurisdiction over cases that have a limited connection to the US, and is fully able to do so under the current US-UK treaty and passive prosecutorial guidelines.
Under the new guidelines, officials will use "prosecutorial discretion" to review the current docket of 300,000 deportation cases, suspending expulsions for a range of immigrants.
A spokesman for the current U.S. attorney, Ron Machen, tells City Paper that "prosecutorial decisions" are made at the local level.
Bush's statement threatens to politicize the ongoing investigations and prosecutorial decision by putting pressure on the current administration to be tough on Assange because of the "great harm" Bush says he caused.
Lynch said that the funding will also help jurisdictions "examine a variety of factors that may have contributed to the current backlog, such as evidence collection systems, storage methods, police practices, prosecutorial policies and laboratory procedures".
(Interestingly, Joachim Köhler, the author of "Wagner's Hitler," the most avid of those prosecutorial tomes, has since recanted, and, in an article translated in the current issue of The Wagner Journal, he argues that anti-Semitism was "not the theme of [Wagner's] life" but "one theme among indescribably many").
In an opinion that may bear on the current case, the appeals court criticized Judge Sporkin for failing to defer to the Justice Department's "prosecutorial discretion".
