WHY senators leahy and whitehouse wrote to the DoJ today

or, a picture's worth 1kb words. . .

after a lot of work on the pixels,
let me set forth some pretty good
evidence that senators patrick leahy
and sheldon whitehouse ought to be
very concerned that alberto gonzales has
not been entirely candid about how
his DoJ actually operates, in the
investigation and prosecution of
public corruption cases -- so it
is fortunate that they wrote to
obtain the data summaries directly
from the "internal affairs" department of
the department of justice, today. . .
as ever, click to expand the images:



the image immediately below contains
the actual tabular study data, from
which the above pie-charts were rendered. . .




now, a sincere h/t to tpmmuckraker,
and to the authors of the above-
quoted study, prof. donald c.
shields (professor emeritus at
the university of missouri -- st.
louis), and prof. john f. cragan
(professor emeritus at illinois
state), for all their careful data
collection and expert analysis, here. . . g'night.