Let Us Not Forget Our Nation's Civil and Criminal Due Process

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Rod Blagojevich is guilty.

So is Jon Burge, accused police torturer.

Let's just set up some TV cameras and parade them into the federal lockup right now!

And Drew Peterson, he's guilty, too. Forget about his trial next month on charges he killed his third wife. Keep him in prison!

Why should they be treated any differently than Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP?

Mr. Hayward, of course, is the buffoon atop BP, whose company's deep water oil wells have fouled the Gulf of Mexico.

After weeks of decided inaction by the administration and Congress, BP CEO Hayward has been marshaled to Washington, browbeaten and prosecuted by President …