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Re:IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twit... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @02:56PM (#5062559)
To be explicitly precise, the attorney in this case was doing her job. No more, no less. To rise to the level of abuse of power would require that she pursue a case that she could not win, or to withhold information needed for a proper defense, Etc.

I don't defend her actions, but neither do I presume to know her intentions. I do not imagine her cackling with glee at this outcome. Vilifying her, as an individual doing her job, is not warranted. That leaves the organization which gave her that job and ordered her to do it.

It is by that reasoning that I do believe it is about the "Justice Department" and not a particular prosecuting attorney within the department.

Re:IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twit... by wissler on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @06:10PM (#5063757)
Doing her job? Please see the movie "Judgement at Nuremberg" regarding "I was just doing my job". Seriously, see this movie.

And, "no less"? On the contrary, all prosecutors do substantially less. They don't actually apply the law most of the time, if they did, we'd probably all be in prison. See this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...

Re:IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twit... by ChuckMcM on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:59PM (#5064924)
Wow. If you seriously believe that the suicide of a mentally unstable defendant in a criminal trial, imputes the same level of human rights abuse as racial genocide then I really won't be able to change your mind.
Re:IBM Exec Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Takes to Twit... by wissler on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @01:48AM (#5065710)
Wow. If you can't discern a principle when shown something of a different degree, then I really think you're a complete idiot.