Five Towns Jewish Times
Dear Ms. Rose, your service in fighting crime in this country is both very necessary and most appreciated. It truly is. However, at times, a prosecutor can get a bit carried away. Your open letter to the public about the prosecution of Sholom Rubashkin paints a vile portrait indeed. The question is, however, is the narrative in your open letter in any way skewed or slanted? A representative of the government has a responsibility to present truth – not a vision that is distorted by imbalanced descriptions, nuances, and superlatives. The perspectives and perceptions in your narrative is revealing of the zeal involved in this prosecution – a zeal that, truth to tell, has been denounced by no less than six United States Attorneys General.
What follows is a line by line analysis of your open letter. It is not meant to be a defense of the criminal activities of Mr. Rubashkin. He was guilty of crimes, true. What this analysis is meant to do is to reveal the underlying motives for the excessive zeal and ardor involved in this entire affair.[...]
Dear Ms. Rose, your service in fighting crime in this country is both very necessary and most appreciated. It truly is. However, at times, a prosecutor can get a bit carried away. Your open letter to the public about the prosecution of Sholom Rubashkin paints a vile portrait indeed. The question is, however, is the narrative in your open letter in any way skewed or slanted? A representative of the government has a responsibility to present truth – not a vision that is distorted by imbalanced descriptions, nuances, and superlatives. The perspectives and perceptions in your narrative is revealing of the zeal involved in this prosecution – a zeal that, truth to tell, has been denounced by no less than six United States Attorneys General.
What follows is a line by line analysis of your open letter. It is not meant to be a defense of the criminal activities of Mr. Rubashkin. He was guilty of crimes, true. What this analysis is meant to do is to reveal the underlying motives for the excessive zeal and ardor involved in this entire affair.[...]