Are Feds Trying to Aid Republican Candidate's Election?

I usually shy away from conspiracy theories. When the Democrats and their attorneys began claiming last year that the Bush administration was using its prosecutorial might to target opposition candidates and their major financial supporters, I greeted the allegation with a skeptical eye. I'm not so sure anymore. This past week's developments in the four-year-old investigation into the failed Mississippi Beef Processors plant seem timed to help derail Democrat Ronnie Musgrove's bid to snatch one of the state's two U.S. Senate seats from Republican hands. Three Georgia businessmen, one by one over the course of four days, entered guilty pleas to federal charges arising out of the Yalobusha County beef plant's quick and costly demise. The three, all executives with The Facility Group of Smyrna, Ga., were largely left off the... [read full story]