Lynne Stewart has been released from prison.

[Jack Rabbit]

110. Would she have been prosecuted by a Gore administration?

She was prosecuted by an administration headed by a man who lost the 2000 election, but subsequently won a lawsuit, and approved a plan to prosecute a war on terror far more elaborate than the acts of September 11, heinous as they were, necessitated. This war on terror featured human rights violations that continue to persist to this day. Among these were laws aimed at limiting due process, wholesale violations of the Fourth Amendment and even attorney/client communications.

I have since been of the opinion the attacks of September 11, 2001 that President Gore would have responded to the attacks much differently than they were handled by usurper Bush. He would have gone after Osama bin Laden and Al Qaida and would not have invaded a country that was not involved in the attacks. He would certainly not have been so anxious to invade Iraq or, as some maintain, to keep Osama around as a bogey man to call off an operation that had Osama cornered in a Tora Bora cave and, if he had failed to apprehend Osama after a length of time, no one would have heard President Gore make a lame excuse about not having to worry about Osama any way.

That is the backdrop of the prosecution of Lynne Stewart. I don't believe she would have been prosecuted under a more measured and more effective response to September 11.