Leaks net swift justice for a retired colonel, bureaucratic paralysis for the high command
In the meticulous ledger of equal American justice for all, the price for leaking secrets appears to depend not on the damage done, but on the rank of the leaker. Two cases, unfolding in the same fraught year, present a stark study in contrasts: one, a retired Army colonel swiftly prosecuted by the FBI; the…
Today’s judicial ruling it the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s unfettered dictatorship
By James J. Devine The veneer of invincibility shattered on Friday. For the better part of a year, President Donald Trump had operated as if the normal rules of American governance did not apply to him. He bulldozed through congressional prerogatives, dismissed judicial oversight as a nuisance, and treated the Constitution as a suggestion. The…
Wayne Councilwoman Fran Ritter expected to be replaced by James Freeswick
A political oddity is unfolding in the Fifth Ward. Fresh off a bruising primary defeat in which the lifelong Democrat was rejected by more than 1,000 votes by voters who preferred a longtime Republican, retired attorney James R. Freeswick is now considered the front-runner to be appointed to the very governing body he failed to…
A child’s rape accusation against Trump was there one day, gone the next
There is a story buried in the files that the government released, and then tried to hide again, that cuts to the bone of everything we thought we knew about power and its protection. It is a story of a child, a credible child, and the machinery of justice that ground to a halt the…
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