Prosecutor to McCain/Palin: You're Full of Crap

Bill Ayers, Bill Ayers, Bill Ayers. The economy continues to tumble into oblivion despite the bailout, and McCain and Palin want to focus instead on a man who, rightfully prosecuted in the 70s, redeemed himself to the point that he won Chicago's Citizen of the Year award in 1997 for his work on education.

The lead prosecutor on the Ayers case, William Ibershof, doesn't buy it, he said in a statement.

"I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.

Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very pleased to learn that he has become a responsible citizen.

Because Senator Obama recently served on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago....


I do take issue with [reports] that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed because of “prosecutorial misconduct.” It was dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director."