Lead Weathermen prosecutor "amazed and outraged" at attempts to link Senator Obama to Bill Ayers

Dig these excerpts from a letter to the editor of The New York Times. The author is William C. Ibershof, lead federal prosecutor of Bill Ayers and other Weathermen (Weather Underground) in the 1970s:

I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers’s terrorist activities 40 years ago when Mr. Obama was, as he has noted, just a child.

And further:

Senator Obama['s recent service] on a board of a charitable organization with Mr. Ayers cannot possibly link the senator to acts perpetrated by Mr. Ayers so many years ago.

And clarifying just why charges against Ayers and others were dropped:

[The indictment was dismissed] because of illegal activities, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions, initiated by [convicted Watergate conspirator and perjuror] John N. Mitchell, attorney general at that time, and W. Mark Felt, an F.B.I. assistant director.

Via Phillybits.