As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.
Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.
[From Letter - Prosecuting Weathermen - NYTimes.com]
Apparently this letter to the NYTimes, published Oct. 9, has been much discussed on blogs of late, a fact I'd missed because I don't keep up with blogs so much these days, the blogs being all ramped up to full political screech as they are. But I am alerted by the Empire's Midwest bureau to this follow-up piece in this morning's Los Angeles Times which illuminates the story further, and is most certainly worth a look.
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