Tom DeLay

All suspects in Gitmo are guilty and should be executed immediately, or held without trial indefinitely.

Tom Delay is innocent, even though he has been found guilty of ethics violations in the past.

Makes sense to me.

I won't even bother to explain why your legal analysis is wrong, Linus. 

Instead, I will elaborate on EJP's statement of the obvious.

In order for the grand jury to issue an indictment, there must be facts alleged that, at least in theory, would be criminal if true.  The facts in the indictment are the same that were alleged against the two co-conspirators before.  Those two guys are on their way to trial.  This indictment merely added DeLay to the situation.

Simply put:  if what you claim were true as a matter of law, then this indictment would never have come to be.  This legal theory has been floating around for the better part of a year - if this theory were as flawed as you posit, then this whole thing would have gone away a long time ago.

There are facts to be proven - was there an actual conspiracy?  Was there criminal intent?  Did the money move as alleged? - and the legal theory may yet come under attack, probably in the form of a constitutional challenge to campaign finance laws - but a claim that the indictment is so obviously flawed as you say, such a claim is, frankly, embarassing.

Campaign finance laws are very complex.  Who do you trust - the zillions of lawyers who specialize in this stuff, who have been looking at this case for more than a year, or your civics teacher?

I stand by my earlier statement.  If this is what you are learning in school, you need a new school, or at least some new teachers.

Kristopher, do you purposely write like that to allow the forum to have a perceived negative image of you, or do you just not really know that much?