It only magnified the low sentence given the defendant in the case. While prosecutors may have been personally gratified by it, it only tended to highlight the fact that this was not a very successful prosecution.

As a practical matter, prosecutors don't go to grand juries for a misdemeanor.

There's never been a criminal case where the defendant was anything but the underdog. The prosecution is always the favorite.

The defendant has earned and deserves a very, very severe sentence that is designed to imprison him for the rest of his life,

After almost half a billion dollars spent on the computer registration system for Obamacare, the website coughed, sputtered, and appeared to descend into an immediate coma as millions tried to log on. One reason is that the Obama administration never fully tested it.

People don't realize that the Obama Administration has been, if anything, harder on whistleblowers than the Bush Administration. Part of the reason is that they know that the response will be more muted because the traditional constituency supporting whistleblowers just happen to be the same constituency as Obama's.