The Washington Post takes Ashcroft and the Justice Department to task for it's abysmal handling of the Detroit terror case that ended with DOJ asking the Judge to overturn the convictions. The editorial provides a succinct description of the case and its failures, and then asks,

.... how did errors so fundamental go undiscovered for so long in such a high-profile case? Why were the department's counterterrorism officials not more closely supervising the work of prosecutors in the field? Why were red flags not raised when officials of different agencies -- as the department now reports -- became concerned that Mr. Convertino was interested only in analysis that supported his case? Mr. Ashcroft needs to answer these questions and make sure that future terrorism cases are not plagued by such dangerous errors again.