Backs to the Wall

The Department of Justice has been in the firing line for months, but worse may be to come for the civil servants, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

Wed, 30 Jul, 2014 - 01:00
Cormac O’Keeffe

THE Department of Justice is on the ropes.Bloodied and bruised, it dare not stand up, lest its legs buckle.

And the bad news for the once-feared, now beleaguered, behemoth is that the fight ain’t over.

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