[techweenie]

How did politics enter the Martha Stewart case?

Is it maybe because Ken Lay is out walking around and she's behind bars?

Is it maybe because GWB sold stock as a Director of a company just before an announcement that caused the stock to crash and was never prosecuted for it?

I've never understood why selling on third-hand information about an insider trade was such a huge deal. But I guess Martha is perceived as a liberal, and therefore an enemy of the state.