Some thoughts about charging and jailing political enemies.

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26. Like with Reagan-Bush too

There were a number of Reagan-Bush scandals where they stonewalled investigations to run out the special prosecutor's clock. Those needed some revisiting once they no longer in a position to further obstruct investigations.

But no such revisiting was done, and a number of the neocons involved there parked themselves in think tank sinecures until they became Dubya's foreign policy team. Everybody here knows how well that worked out. Would they have been able to take such high positions in an administration if some of their earlier shady work had been more publicly visible?

We can't know that, but we do know how it played out when that shadiness was simply ignored.