Department of Justice Political Prosecutions fingered John Edwards

Found from a comment on TPM Cafe - The Edwards Schadenfreude
"I never much liked Edwards as a politician," writes Time Magazine's Joe Klein.
Under comments: By destor23 - August 10, 2008, 3:29PM
The DOJ deployed agents earlier to investigate Edward's funding sources when the WH thought that Edwards might get the nomination. A "small army of 100 agents" including one flow in from Iraq.... There is no doubt anymore that in the Gonzales DOJ, resources were allocated repeatedly to investigate Democratic Party political figures who the GOP viewed as threatening. Spitzer was such a surgical strike...I would not at the least by surprised if the government is not behind this and this is NOT tinfoil hat territory.

By Scott Horton At Harpers Magazine
In civil litigation connected to one of a substantial number of federal prosecutions of campaign funding of contributors to Democratic candidate John Edwards, a federal court has directed the Department of Justice to submit to discovery to ascertain whether improper political motivations stood behind its management of the case. The litigation, entitled Beam v. Gonzales, questions the actions of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Federal Elections Commission chair Robert Lenhard in going after a group of Edwards fundraisers. At the time of the actions taken, Gonzales was counsel to George W. Bush and was heavily (and improperly) involved in shaping and directing Department of Justice prosecutions, and the head of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was Michael Toner. Before his appointment, Toner was Chief Counsel to the Republican National Committee, and prior to that Toner served as General Counsel of the Bush-Cheney Transition Team and General Counsel of the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential Campaign. Whole article can be read by clicking on title.