Life can become a nightmare for those targeted by federal prosecutors in search of scalps. Ask General Michael Hayden. After reading two excellent books on federal prosecutors who have been willing to cross the line into misbehavior, I am having nightmares, too.
Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice (2014) is written by Sidney Powell, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds target the innocent (2011 is by Harvey Silverglate, campus rights activist, , attorney and prolific author.
Both tell you the dark side of the US Law enforcement system, at the DOJ and FBI, and among career prosecutors and investigators who become miscreants and hacks.Powell and Silverglate write about the horror faced by regular, even prominent citizens whom the FBI and DOJ destroyed, or tried to destroy, using their unlimited resources and the trust of the courts and the public.
From the very beginning of the prosecution when the affidavits for charges are submitted to the court, the honesty and fairness of the prosecutors is tested, and all too often, ambitious and aggressive prosecutors betray that trust...........
Harvey Silverglate relates his own experience of Mueller attempting to entrap him into suborning perjury when he was defending a Mueller target.
As Silverglate said in an interview for WGBH (Boston TV) news, he wouldn’t trust Mueller, who has the attitude of a Grand Inquisitor, not the choirboy Marine portrayed by his leftist allies in the press.
Mueller has an uneven, sometimes incompetent record -- for example his Anthrax Letters investigation, the failure to convict Hell’s Angels on drug trafficking and his role during the Eric Holder time as Attorney General..........To Read More.....
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