I don’t know about you, but I’m plenty sick, and plenty tired, or reading rehashed public relations press releases circulated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and then reprinted in one form or another in the mainstream press. My tax dollars are hard at work paying the office shill to chest-thump about the doings at Justice.
Does a defendant plead guilty? Within moments, a release is generated, together with self-congratulatory gibberish from whomsoever happens to occupy the top slot in the office. Just this week, Acting U.S. Attorney Deidre Daly was reported, in a release, to have said this of two men who pleaded guilty to providing Internet support to terrorists: “They acknowledged that they solicited funds, recruited personnel and provided additional support for acts of terror, including efforts based out of the United States and solicitations for support that were specifically targeted at U.S. residents.” Odds are, the words were written for her.
