Rep. William Delahunt, who declined to prosecute Amy Bishop when she aced her brother almost a quarter-century ago, is conveniently out of the country. Therefore, he's unable to comment on why he deemed a case an "accident" in which a woman discharged a firearm three times, killed her brother, attempted to rob a stranger at gunpoint, and engaged in a brief armed standoff with police.

The cover-up, whether perpetrated by Delahunt or the local police chief, led directly to the multiple victim public shooting in Huntsville, Alabama, where this fruit loop murdered three fellow academics. The more we learn about Bishop, the more it's evident that she shouldn't have been on the street, let alone in front of a classroom. Bishop made nuisance calls to the police on neighbors partaking in mundane activities. In 2002, she punched a mother in the head in front of her children for not handing over a booster seat at an International House of Pancakes. In 1993, she was a suspect in an attempted nail-bombing of a Harvard professor who had been critical of her. At the University of Alabama, students found her so bizarre that they complained to the administration and circulated a petition about Bishop's erratic classroom behavior. Bishop's own family found her far-left political hectoring and Obama obsessions alienating. And the strongest evidence of her instability? Bishop, the cousin of author John Irving, penned three unpublished novels.

It is no wonder that Bishop's colleagues denied her tenure. It is stupifying why Massachusetts officials, particularly Bill Delahunt, denied her a stay in the big house.

Presumably, the flap will blow over by Delahunt's return. That's what the congressman is counting on. And if it doesn't blow over, who's going to ask him probing questions anyhow? Certainly not the Democratic Party's courtier journalists at the Boston Globe. Why would they want to jeopardize the seven-term Congressman's reelection?

The paper's editorial page blamed "flawed police work" and "a blue wall of ignorance" for Delahunt's failure to prosecute this killer. Hidden amidst hundreds of words exculpating Delahunt, the Globe conceded that the flap doesn't reflect well on the current congressman. Ya think? But Braintree's current police chief suggests that police sought prosecution of Bishop, but got stymied after then district attorney Delahunt spoke with the town's police chief back in 1986.

Who--the police chief or the D.A.--said what in that conversation? Why did they say it? How--money or influence--did they come to the indefensible position that Bishop should be set free? These are the type of questions that need to be asked, even if the type of answers needed won't be forthcoming.

The Globe editorial page's lack of intellectual curiousity is fatal to journalists but is the lifeblood of local corrupt politicians. They count on New England's largest newspaper to give them a pass. And when the corrupt politicans are liberal Democrats, the Globe usually does.