“There are federal judges who have ruled elsewhere in the U.S. the exact opposite of the way this federal judge has, ... this case only affects the area of California in which he [the judge] sits.”
“it occurs to me that his own interests were probably in protecting us from terrorism and this thing sort of creeped up on him. Remember, his department is new, his management of FEMA is new, this is the first FEMA-like crisis that he has had to deal with in his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security. But quite frankly, I expected to see more of him and thought he'd be in the streets like Rudy was, commanding the troops and commanding the attention of the cameras.”
“There is very little other justification for him to go before the grand jury now, unless he feels the need to re-explain something to them so they don't do something that puts him in legal jeopardy,”
“The government would have to give up the ghost on seeking the death penalty, the sentence being life in an institution instead of in jail [with the rest of the prison population] without the possibility of parole, ... That's the only guilty plea that would be acceptable.”
“It's a rough-and-tumble, swaggering electorate who like to see the guilty punished to the max, ... I don't know that a plea deal is in the cards. It depends on the political wishes of the prosecutor.”
