Attorney General Holder defends Swartz case as ‘a good use of prosecutorial discretion’

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Attorney General Eric Holder has defended the Justice Department’s treatment of Aaron Swartz, saying that it was an example of “a good use of prosecutorial discretion.” In a Senate hearing today, John Cornyn (R-TX) asked Holder for a response to his questions about Swartz’s prosecution for copying articles from JSTOR — he’s previously suggested that the Justice Department overzealously prosecuted Swartz as retaliation for a previous case or to “make an example” of him. In response, Holder said that protests have focused too heavily on the heavy jail sentence Swartz faced, and that prosecutors never intended him to spend more than a few months in prison.

“These news reports about what he was actually facing are not consistent with the…

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