And he quickly cited a Washington Post column that he said concluded "a whole bunch of this stuff was just garbage, and that we had totally innocent people prosecuted because they wouldn't lie".
"It is one thing to peacefully protest on a sidewalk outside City Hall and quite another to assault a police officer or endanger lives on the freeway … which are totally unacceptable and will be prosecuted," he wrote.
This is beyond tragic, it is totally unacceptable and those responsible ought to be prosecuted either in a court of law or the court of public opinion.
We have totally independent investigating and prosecuting authorities in the UK, and they are at liberty to act or not, and are not director by ministers".
Axelrod says he totally agrees, but he dares Alter to point to a single journalist who's been prosecuted.
I mean, if privatizing homeland security and letting mercenaries go totally unregulated in Iraq is ok -- with no possible chance of the hired guns being prosecuted by state, federal or international law aren't we sanctioning roving corporate armies?
Look for firms to assume less and less risk since it would not be uncommon to see an officer prosecuted for an infraction that would have been ignored had he not failed in a totally unrelated project.
Will anyone be prosecuted?
