Not Guilty!

Whitman: As innocent as O.J.

I'm not a lawyer, I don't play one on TV, or even on the internets...but I can almost see, in a very technical way, why the 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals dismissed charges against Christine Todd Whitman. I assume the court feels there's some sort of sovereign immunity with regard to the office itself...ahem, not unlike a US District Court dismissing a class action filed against the ACOE last January. I'll likewise assume the 2nd District also decided to protect Whitman personally, in much the same way that corporate officers are shielded, at least to some extent, from the liability of the corporation itself.

That doesn't mean, though, that it don't stink to high heaven, and that on a moral and ethical level, Christine Todd Whitman personifies a particular sort of sleaziness. Indeed, how she reacts to the verdict will speak volumes, and I'm guessing it will be not unlike Simpson...except for maybe being even less repentant. Whitman willingly made statements that, at the VERY least, she knew were not backed up by any scientific data. She gambled.

But it was the people working at the site who lost.