Excuse me. But this shit is being said with a straight face by our own Attorney General:

“But not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.”

“That does not mean, as some people have suggested, that those officials who were found by the joint reports to have committed misconduct have suffered no consequences,” Mr. Mukasey said. “Far from it. The officials most directly implicated in the misconduct left the Department to the accompaniment of substantial negative publicity.”

So now “negative publicity” is a suitable form of punishment?! Period?!