DSK & The US Criminal Justice System (Oh, and the Media, too).

We have always liked public hangings in West, and we actually performed them until embarrassingly late in our history. Sometimes, we even held a trial before convicting and hanging the suspect. And, sometimes, the person hanged was even guilty. It's not much better today in the U.S. with elected prosecutors almost always using the office to which they were elected as a step along the way to a higher office. And, finally, the criminal justice system is deeply flawed when the alleged perpetrator is a predator and the alleged victim is a prevaricator. Although I rarely think highly of her columns, I do think Mauren Dowd captured this tension well on Sunday in the NYT.