Acts and Omissions

Slate senior editor Dahlia Lithwick is, for my money, the most consistently interesting and readable writer covering legal issues today. Here is her most recent take on the government's case against Zacarias Moussaoui.

Don't forget that the government is going through all of these legal gymnastics not to prove that a crime was committed. Moussaoui has already pleaded guilty and will spend the rest of his life doing the hardest time the feds have. This is all about whether the government can kill him. As I said in my post last night, enough already.