Fresh from saving Rick Santorum’s job — he said getting Santorum reelected would be his number one priority — Sen. Arlen Specter now goes out of his way to defend the reputation of Rep. John Murtha, “a friend of mind for three decades.” It’s all there in his letter to the Washington Post, published today.
“All I know about Mr. Murtha’s situation is what I have read in the press,” Specter writes — a curious statement for a former crime-fighting district attorney to make. Surely in his earlier guise he would have been professionally negligent had he failed to avail himself of an extensive surveillance tape in which a target quite readily implicated himself.
