Putting a troublesome critic on ice

Have you been reading about the government's prosecution of Dinesh D'Souza, who made a popular documentary film that was critical of Barack Obama and has now been singled out for criminal prosecution? Apparently D'Souza made a $15,000 campaign contribution that the government believes was illegal. For that, D'Souza

has been paraded in handcuffs, made to post bail of half-a-million dollars and hand over his passport, and cannot travel internally within the United States without the permission of a judge,

writes Mark Steyn.

Steyn adds,

It's certainly an effective punishment, and not just because the malign alliance of a corrupt bureaucracy and a politicized judiciary is unlikely to end well for D'Souza. Years before the eventual outcome will be known, he will have to devote enormous amounts of time and money to fending off Obama's prosecutors that he would have been able to devote to making more movies and books critical of Obama. In effect, this is the government version of a SLAPP suit - a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Obama puts a troublesome critic on ice, and mutes many others.

Four Senators are pushing back a little against the F.B.I. Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Charles Grassley, and Jeff Sessions are all members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. They have written a letter to the head of the F.B.I.