Feb. 14, 2025 … London time
Opinion by Mathew Carr + CarrZee Win
Great reporting by WSJ, Feb. 13
Plenty of intrigue here. Great to see 6 govt officials blow the whistle and resign rather than bend to some very strange behaviour indeed.
Until today I was under the impression that all crimes had to be prosecuted. Appears not.
Key sentence: The move to drop the prosecution… “risked turning an institution that typically celebrates its independence from political influence into an operation where law enforcement is open to negotiation.”
I’m assuming the institution was clean prior to Thursday. The six might have seen the writing on the wall.
CarrZee Win
A great quote in a resignation letter:
One of the assistant attorneys who worked the Adams case, Hagan Scotten, responded with his own resignation letter to Mr. Bove: “No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.”