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It is bad luck for Ted Stevens, the Republican former Senator from Alaska, that his exoneration by the Justice Department should have come on such a heavy news day. The coverage of the reversal of his conviction for $250,000 in graft because of the prosecutor's misconduct would surely have been accorded more prominence on a G20-free agenda. Nevertheless, the network newscasts did the right thing: all three had covered his indictment last July and again his conviction last October; so it was proper that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to drop the charges against him should get similarly unanimous treatment. A trio of Justice Department correspondents filed--Pete Williams at NBC, Bob Orr at CBS and Pierre Thomas at ABC. Thomas reported that FBI agent Chad Joy had accused prosecutors of suppressing potentially exculpatory evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit. NBC's Williams noted that Holder's reversal does not restore Stevens' political career in the Senate: just a week after his now-overturned conviction "he lost his bid for re-election--by a whisker."
Yes he should resign. The use of government power was used to get him in. This is why crooks love government:
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