Duke lacrosse: Nifong website gets a truth hit

Sure,hackers are rough on websites. But do you know about historian and blogger KC Johnson?

In just a few minutes KC can shread one of those very expensive, skillfully crafted campaign websites. If you don’t believe that, just ask DA Mike Nifong. KC hit his site today.

Mike and his staff are in shock. They’ve turned the task of counting the number of facts and reasoned statements KC used in the attack over to Durham Police Sgt. Mark Gottlieb.

According to press reports, Gottlieb has told Nifong and Durham Police Chief Steve Chalmers he’ll have an incident report ready “within my lifetime.”

The Associated Press says Gottlieb plans to conduct the investigation from a sports bar in Raleigh. When asked for a comment tonight, all Gottlieb would say is “He isn’t worth it.” He refused to say whether he was refering to Nifong or KC.

Well, none of that seems new,does it?

Here's a sample of what KC did to Nifong. We come in as KC is poking at Nifong’s self-puffery but you’ll see KC almost immediately “puts the wind” to Mike’s procedural “garments” and leaves him where only someone like the Durham Herald Sun’s Bob Ashley would excuse Nifong’s injustices. From KC’s post:

In [an “interviewer’s”] “conversation with Mike,” the district attorney opines, “The shortsighted prosecutor concerns himself only with victory in the courtroom and is willing to take whatever advantage he can, no matter the consequence.”

I wonder how Nifong would reconcile this statement with his decision to order the Durham Police Department to violate not only its own procedures but all statewide norms, and confine the accuser’s photo ID session to lacrosse players. This decision would seem the action of a “shortsighted prosecutor” concerned “only with victory in the courtroom” and “willing to take whatever advantage he can, no matter the consequence.” In this case, the consequences included the indictment of a demonstrably innocent person, Reade Seligmann.

There’s a lot more like that here.

If KC keeps it up, who knows, maybe Bob Ashley will refuse to play the Fig Leaf role in the Duke Allen Building’s production of “All’s Well that Brodhead Let’s Nifong End.”