What IS it With These Fuckers???

In what will most likely be the only trial for the alleged perpetrators of the 9-11 attack, US prosecutors have fucked up. And fucked up royally. Fucked up to the point that the lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui will no doubt get him off, either with a mistrial or on appeal. And it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the jury will find him not guilty.

The prosecution, in its idiotic zeal to draw and quarter Moussaoui, engaged in what the federal judge called egregious conduct, including tampering with witnesses and corrupting evidence.

All of the testimony by six jurors and all of the evidence relating to air security will be suppressed by order of the judge.

Read the story. Then tell me what's really going on. These are seasoned, experienced prosecutors, pursuing a case that is so high profile that it pushes other news off the front page. And we're supposed to believe that they would engage in the sleazy kind of prosecutorial behavior that we usually see in the lower reaches of the skid road municipal court?

Bullshit. They're throwing it, like the Chicago Black Sox in the 1919 World Series. Like Terry Malone in On the Waterfront. Like the 2004 Democrats.

Why are they doing it? Good question. I can only surmise that there's something that they don't want everybody's favorite terrorist-in-custody to talk about it. A mistrial, a hung jury, even an overturn on appeal would be a good thing for Moussaoui and bad thing for everyone else.

So why are they doing it? And why are the prosecutors acting like inept first-year law students?

Is it because they don't want to convict Moussaoui and have him sentenced to death? Is there some secret deal, some hidden payback involved?

Just asking.