Ed. Note: An earlier version of this was published without paragraphing. On January 11 Americans were horrified to read a front page story in the New York Times headlined, “FBI Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia.” Unfortunately, only about half were horrified that a few civil servants at the top…

Cape Cod Times Letter  Brent Harold seems to have worked himself into a silly hysteria, ginning up a constitutional crisis where none exists. (“The Constitutional crisis has already happened,” Another View, Jan. 17). If false information misled any voters, it was not the John Podesta or Democratic National Committee emails which, after all, were genuine. Certainly…

CNN reported that 1) an intelligence report delivered to President Obama and President-Elect Trump had an appendix of “raw” intelligence reporting 2) information received from a former MI-6 operative who was hired to conduct opposition research for Trump’s political opponents that he had 3) received reports from secondary Russian sources that they in turn were…

Cape Cod Times Op-Ed, June 8, 2016Having retired as a district court judge, I can tell you that the Cape Cod Times was wrong that there is “Little accountability of judges, prosecutors,” as it asserted in a May 27 editorial. Active sitting judges are prohibited by the Canons of Judicial Ethics from publicly defending themselves….