Larisa: DoJ investigating two US Attorneys for political prosecution

[MiaCulpa]

Mississippi US Attorney said to share tax returns of one of his targets with “unauthorized personnel”

The US Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is investigating the conduct of at least two specific US Attorneys in the “selective prosecution” of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, sitting Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver E. Diaz Jr., and Mississippi attorney Paul Minor, according to attorneys close to the investigation.

In a May 5 letter sent to House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI), OPR Director H. Marshall Jarrett wrote that OPR “currently has pending investigations involving, among others, allegations of selective prosecution relating to the prosecutions of Don Siegelman, Georgia Thompson, Oliver Diaz and Paul Minor.”

Full article:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/DOJ_Investigating_two_US_Attorneys_involved_0604.html

[annabanana]

1. I fear that the DOJ investigating ANYTHING at this point will

come to very little.

[stillcool]

2. Are they investigating themselves?