Do New York Times reporters even bother to research the subject of their articles at all?

Take this A.G Sulzberger/NY Times puff piece on the departure of current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Benton J. Campbell.

You may remember Campbell. He was the lead prosecutor on the Enron-related criminal trial known in these parts as the first Enron Broadband trial, which ended in an embarrassing loss for Enron Task Force after the prosecution was caught threatening defense witnesses (see also here) and propounding false testimony from one of its key witnesses. Sort of what you would expect from a trial in which the Task Force advocated an unwarranted expansion of a criminal law intended to punish kickbacks and bribes against business executives who didnít take any.

Then, as if that wasnít enough, Campbell proceeded to lead the prosecution (unsuccessfully, thank goodness) that attempted to make refusing to throw in the towel a crime. Given that he decided to become a prosecutor while watching Rudolph W. Guiliani, who could be surprised by such appalling lack of judgment?

Sort of makes one wonder just how much unwarranted destruction of lives one has to be involved in before the Times notices?