Mr. Maschke's indictment of "the government" is, assuming that it
can be taken at face value, not well thought out. He presumably is
directing his anger to two parts of the executive branch, DOE and the FBI,
that operate independently of each other and have no control over each
other. DOE is itself a fragmented collection of interests, and
Richardson, the Secretary, has little control over the civil servants on a
day-to-day basis. None of these people control the many US Attorneys, who
are political appointees.
All of the above have nothing to do with the many other departments
of the government, each of which has its own parochial interests.
I suppose that even I, as a retired military officer drawing
"retention pay", might be considered a part of "the government". Are you
atttacking me, too, George?
So I suggest that before Mr. Maschke indulges himself in another
tirade, he do some civics 101 and find out more about the entities that he
is dealing with.
Furthermore, part of Mr. Maschke's tirade is plain misleading. As
far a court proceedings are concerned, at least, no mention of a lie
detector test may be made in any court that I'm aware of in connection
with the guilt or innocence of an accused person. Court decisions have
made it clear that polygraph testing is unreliable.
In sum, I ask Mr. Maschke to stop firing broadsides. If he has
individual cases of unfairness, please deal with these as individual
cases. I don't know enough about the Lee case to have an opinion, but it
appears that he will have more than adequate legal representation to fight
his battle.