The administration has shown itself a number of times capable of changing course and speed in response to actual or feared legal developments, be it in the courts or in Congress. This may be another illustration of that tendency. |
The real question is who is the independent prosecutor who is liberated to pursue these cases. There is no central prosecution office run by commanders. So you don't have a D.A. thinking, I'm going to follow this wherever it leads. |
There's this sense that time has no value. I think the government has to explain what its game plan is. The legal system is illusory for people in his position. |
This is in itself an important reaffirmation of the rule of law, however it comes out. |
We will have the equivalent of 'letters de cachet'. |
You don't have a D.A. thinking, I'm going to follow this wherever it leads. |
You have the opportunity for internal renditions |