Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
The table I posted showed far more convictions under the Nixon and Reagan Presidencies than any others over the past fifty years - Watergate and the Iran Contra affair happened under their watch and, surely, must account for the majority of those convictions, your response to that table was to say a cryptic "it goes back a long way" - how is your comment relevant to what I posted?
Law enforcement has been suspect since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, and if you add in CIA black ops nothing is as it appears. The role of the DOJ is to decide who to go after and who to let off, so your chart also tells a secondary story.