Greenwald: Hastert is a victim of over-criminalization

[Warpy]

3. I agree, in a way

but it's his own fault. A lot of those structured withdrawal laws were passed when he was in office and they wanted to tighten down on drug money.

However, he got those laws pushed through and now he's been hoisted on his own petard.

The kid(s) he diddled don't seem to be in a big hurry to try to prosecute, especially since there used to be a statute of limitations regarding sex crimes against children and they likely didn't realize it was repealed last year.

Still, I can't shed too many tears over criminalizing Hastert. He's likely the first of a long line of Republican hypocrites to be caught by what we told them at the time was-ta da- bad law.