The Week

■ We’ll sleep a lot better tonight knowing the Justice Department has been cleared of all wrongdoing in the Marston affair. By the Justice Department.

■ Dinh Ba Thi has left our shores, denouncing the “slanderous fabrication” that he was engaged in espionage against the U.S. while serving as UN ambassador. And not only were his two pals, Ronald Humphrey and David Truong, subjected to similar fabrications, they were also caught red-handed by dubious means: electronic surveillance, warrantless wiretapping, sneaky stuff like that. Truong wants his bail reduced, and he has lots of friends here to vouch for him: Ramsey Clark, Robert Drinan, Noam Chomsky, etc. Clark wrote an affidavit vouching for the Vietnamese Truong, whom he knew in the anti-freedom movement: “I found him to be an extremely sensitive and compassionate human being who suffered greatly throughout the Vietnam War. His veracity, character, reliability, and sense of responsibility are of the highest quality. I have found him to be dependable and mature.” Dumb, ain’t he?

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■ We’ll sleep a lot better tonight knowing the Justice Department has been cleared of all wrongdoing in the Marston affair. By the Justice Department.

■ Dinh Ba Thi has left our shores, denouncing the “slanderous fabrication” that he was engaged in espionage against the U.S. while serving as UN ambassador. And not only were his two pals, Ronald Humphrey and David Truong, subjected to similar fabrications, they were also caught red-handed by dubious means: electronic surveillance, warrantless wiretapping, sneaky stuff like that. Truong wants his bail reduced, and he has lots of friends here to vouch for him: Ramsey Clark, Robert Drinan, Noam Chomsky, etc. Clark wrote an affidavit vouching for the Vietnamese Truong, whom he knew in the anti-freedom movement: “I found him to be an extremely sensitive and compassionate human being who suffered greatly throughout the Vietnam War. His veracity, character, reliability, and sense of responsibility are of the highest quality. I have found him to be dependable and mature.” Dumb, ain’t he?