The U.S. Department of Justice is an institution of vast reach and power over the American people, with little oversight into its internal operations. This book examines the ways that attorneys general, FBI directors, federal prosecutors and other Justice Department officials have often abused their powers to achieve political goals rather than pursuing justice. Its warning remains as relevant in the digital post-9/11 era of the expanded national security state as it was in the days of J. Edgar Hoover.
". . . a penetrating analysis of the organizational confusion arising out of the patronage politics that frame the appointment of the 93 U.S. attorneys, who actually determine what laws to enforce and whom to prosecute."
The Washington Post
"Burnham marshals a wealth of statistical information and anecdotal cases to build a convincing argument that the nation's most powerful law enforcement bureaucracy has made its lowest priority the types of crime that affect the largest number of citizens it is sworn to protect."
