Just watched C-SPAN, the hour and seven minutes or so of Patrick Fitzgerald. After a long time, I felt again that the world had something to learn from America.

The law and the integrity of its process are one of our great values. If some prosecutor in, say, India, draws inspiration and courage from this example, and likewise in other corners of the world, then there might even be some net good out of the sorry story that lies behind the indictment.

Some people in Washington also had a lesson to learn as well, it seems. Fitzgerald pointed out that perjury and obstruction of justice are prosecuted routinely in New York and Chicago and Philadelphia. The unspoken point was why should Washington DC be any different.

Nothing in the body.