Tarek Mehanna, whose prosecution was her other brainchild, suffered one of the most shameful miscarriages of justice in my lifetime, including Guantanamo.
Note: I don’t think he’s a good person or innocent. He would execute me in five seconds flat because of the sect my parents belonged to. But they could have tried him for legitimate incitement to murder, not what they railroaded him on.
It definitely does seem that prosecutors (at least as portrayed in fiction) make these character judgements that lead them to formulate prosecutions not on the basis of "this person committed this crime, can we get [them] for it", but rather "this person is a bad apple, what can we get them on?"
Note: I don’t think he’s a good person or innocent. He would execute me in five seconds flat because of the sect my parents belonged to. But they could have tried him for legitimate incitement to murder, not what they railroaded him on.