[lexusgx]

That's not truly what's broken. If it were a truly fair system, no one would fear showing up to say they were innocent.

The problem is that the courts regularly ignore due process because there isn't any incentive for them to uphold the letter of the law. The side with the more expensive team of lawyers regularly wins.

If you could bet on court decisions, you would see the odds heavily in favor of the more moneyed party.

There should be a monetary incentive that encourages people who can read the law to evaluate past court decisions, and that punishes legal bodies (maybe even in a criminal court) that ignore due process.

[closeparen]

The issue is the long-standing gentleman’s agreement not to enforce the laws regarding classified information against journalists. The computer intrusion charge is prosecutors’ strategy to get him behind bars while preserving that tradition. Give the facts here, he probably would be acquitted. But then the government might decide to use the classified information laws, under which it has a slam-dunk case. Prosecutorial policy convention is not due process. Those charges are what he really has to fear if he’s extradited.