The Capitol Steps : Time Off for Good Behavior

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The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom ("Don't quit your day job!"), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.

Time Off for Good Behavior

Imagine a world where President Bush invades a country, restores democracy, starts bringing troops home in less than a month, and sees the deposed dictator convicted in U.S. criminal courts.

Dubya's fantasy? No, his father's 1989 invasion of Panama.

General Manuel Noriega has been in jail ever since. Now he's scheduled to be released in September, with time off for good behavior,having paid his debt to society. The Justice Department wants him extradited to France on money laundering charges, but since U.S. courts ruled he's a prisoner of war, Noriega's lawyers say the Geneva Conventions require the U.S. to send him home.

Yes, We Have No-Riega

Published Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:00 AM by The Capitol Steps

Filed under: president bush, capsteps, justice, noriega, panama

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