The former House Majority Leader is gloating over the Justice Department's decision not to prosecute him in the Abramoff scandal. Peter Stone on the government's failure and whether DeLay could still go to jail.
Given the glacial and sometimes confusing path of the federal probe into the Abramoff scandal since its peak of activity in late 2006 and 2007 and much of Congress’ heavy dependence on K Street’s fundraising machine, it was not all that surprising that the Department of Justice told Tom DeLay’s...