White House Responds To Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor

First time accepted submitter devloop writes Petitioners requesting the White House remove D.A. Carmen Ortiz from office for gross prosecutorial overreach in the case of Aaron Swartz, received today what amounts to a denial from WhiteHouse.gov. "Aaron Swartz's death was a tragic, unthinkable loss for his family and friends. Our sympathy continues to go out to those who were closest to him, and to the many others whose lives he touched. We also reaffirm our belief that a spirit of openness is what makes the Internet such a powerful engine for economic growth, technological innovation, and new ideas. That's why members of the Administration continue to engage with advocates to ensure the Internet remains a free and open platform as technology continues to disrupt industries and connect our communities in ways we can't yet imagine. We will continue this engagement as we tackle new questions on key issues such as citizen participation in democracy, open access to information, privacy, intellectual property, free speech, and security. As to the specific personnel-related requests raised in your petitions, our response must be limited. Consistent with the terms we laid out when we began We the People, we will not address agency personnel matters in a petition response, because we do not believe this is the appropriate forum in which to do so."

Comments

She's not a scapegoat, just a bad prosecutor

[Anonymous Coward]

So to be clear, those choices that she made were not her choices, and its scapegoating to want her fired for making those choices because 'the system'.

Nope, she made the choice to load on bogus charges to try to force a plea bargain, that was her choice within her power. She also did a lot a press work around the same time promoting herself and making statements that called into question her grasp of legal principles like 'theft'.

She is not a scapegoat, she is an bad prosecutor.

Re:As much as could be expected

[Lennie]

There was a law (amendment) proposed, it got shot down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Also notice the last line on Wikipedia says:
"As of May 2014, Aaron's Law was stalled in committee, reportedly due to tech company Oracle's financial interests.[42]"