Dim Bulb: Blundering DSK DA

Published July 2, 2011 4:00am ET



WHO: Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. WHAT: After International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a New York City hotel maid, Vance declared that “evidence supports the commission of nonconsensual forced sexual acts.”

Why it’s dim: After all that hullabaloo, prosecutors in Vance’s office are watching their case collapse because the maid has been caught in several lies.

CURE: Cautious prosecutors who don’t just assume everyone is guilty.