Flashes of Lunacy  DA says FU to GJ  On Aug. 26, District
Attorney Tony Rackauckas "went on the offensive" (according to
the LA Times) and "fired back" (according to The Orange County
Register) when he responded to the grand jury's June findings of
prosecutorial incompetence, mismanagement and corruption. The
dramatic characterizations of Rackauckas by both daily
newspapers was as absurd as the DA's answers. Rackauckas could
have called a press conference, aired his defense in radio
commercials or issued a media release, but he did none of that.
He quietly filed his legally mandated responses by describing
himself as a hero and the 19 citizen members of the 2001-2002
grand jury as alternatively ignorant and evil. In short, the
jurors' eight-month investigation was, he told the Reg, "an
unfortunate waste of taxpayer resources."  There has been a
debate about Rackauckas' ethics, but all would agree he is an
expert in wasting taxpayer resources. The grand jury documented
numerous occasions when the DA raided the