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In Letter to 'NYT,' Man Who Prosecuted Weather
Underground Hits Linking Ayers to Obama

By Greg Mitchell

Published: October 10, 2008 9:00 AM ET

NEW YORK In a surprising a letter to the editor
published in The New York Times today, the
chief prosecutor of the Weather Underground
in the 1970s expressed outrage over the
linking of Barack Obama to Bill Ayers by the
McCain campaign, adding, "Although I dearly
wanted to obtain convictions against all the
Weathermen, including Bill Ayers, I am very
pleased to learn that he has become a
responsible citizen."

William C. Ibershof also corrects a charge
in the Times: "I do take issue with the
statement in your news article that the
Weathermen indictment was dismissed
because of 'prosecutorial misconduct.'
It was dismissed because of illegal activities,
including wiretaps, break-ins and mail
interceptions, initiated by John N. Mitchell,
attorney general at that time, and W.
Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director."

Felt, of course (you may have already for-
gotten), was also known as a guy called
"Deep Throat."

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As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathe-
rmen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the
criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan
and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972),
I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack
Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist
activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as
he has noted, just a child.

Although I dearly wanted to obtain convictions
against all the Weathermen, including Bill Ayers,
I am very pleased to learn that he has become a
responsible citizen.

Because Senator Obama recently served on
a board of a charitable organization with
Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to
acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.

I do take issue with the statement in your news
article that the Weathermen indictment was dismissed
because of “prosecutorial misconduct.” It was
dismissed because of illegal activities, including wiretaps,
break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by John N.
Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark
Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.

William C. Ibershof
Mill Valley, Calif., Oct. 8, 2008

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