Thread: Investigate Johnny Sutton if You Investigate Ethics

Although this is not an article about ILLEGALS it is an article concerning Ethics in the Justice Department involving Sen. Stevens, My question and comment on the source article is "Why do they not investigate Johnny Sutton of Texas who sent two Border Agents to prison for shooting a drug dealer who was an ILLEGAL?" There are several unanswered questions concerning the case.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... id=topnews

Justice Dept. to Name New Leader of Internal Ethics Unit

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 8, 2009; 1:57 PM

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is preparing to name a new person to lead the Justice Department's internal ethics unit, moving to put his stamp on a department reeling from the dismissal of criminal charges against former senator Ted Stevens and accusations of political motivation during the Bush years.

Holder will name Mary Patrice Brown, a well-respected career prosecutor in the District, as the new leader of the Office of Professional Responsibility as early as this afternoon, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Brown, who leads the criminal division at the U.S. attorney's office in the District, will become only the third chief of that unit since it was established in 1975 after the Watergate scandal.

The move comes a day after U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan expressed a lack of confidence in the office, which has been investigating lapses with witnesses and evidence that ultimately demolished the government's case against Stevens. Citing the seriousness of the prosecutorial misconduct, the judge took the extraordinary step of appointing a special prosecutor to probe six government lawyers involved in the case against the former Alaska senator, convicted last fall of ethics violations for accepting gifts from an oil services company executive.


The ethics job is among the most sensitive and secretive within the Justice Department. Among other issues, the OPR has been examining whether Bush-era lawyers who drafted memos in support of waterboarding and other harsh detainee interrogation tactics followed professional legal standards. Two key Senate Democrats have been advocating for the release of the report on the Bush lawyers.

The current chief of the ethics unit, H. Marshall Jarrett, will move over to lead the executive office of U.S. attorneys. In that post, Jarrett will have a voice on policy issues during an early stage in the new administration, helping to direct the work of the 94 U.S. attorneys and to referee disputes among them.

Jarrett is a career prosecutor who has served as leader of the department's Office of Professional Responsibility since 1998. As an official at the U.S. attorney's office in the District, he worked closely with Holder and supervised high-profile prosecutions of then-D.C. Mayor Marion Barry (D) and then-Sen. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.).

A department source who spoke on condition of anonymity characterized the personnel move as one that gives Jarrett an important set of responsibilities, not a response to criticism in the Stevens case and elsewhere.

Jarrett will replace Kenneth E. Melson, who led the executive office of U.S. attorneys since 2007. Melson, who had been a career prosecutor in Alexandria for nearly 25 years before shifting to department headquarters, is moving to serve as acting chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The bureau is playing a critical role in tamping down violence and gun traffic on the southwestern U.S. border.

I wondered the same thing. It's obvious corruption runs deep.