I am 100% in the camp that someone should have resigned but to say that there was a "coordinated political attack" makes no sense. Salmond had already made him

I am 100% in the camp that someone should have resigned but to say that there was a "coordinated political attack" makes no sense. Salmond had already made himself totally irrelevant. He was lobbing grenades from the sidelines through Cherry and McAskill but he wasn't very effective (Salmond had electoral success but was personally never popular, with women in particular). And all this ignores the fact that the person who put Salmond in jeopardy was Salmond by acting like a massive creep. What happened in the case was largely a function of total incompetence by the Scottish Civil Service/govt. If you are familiar with Scotland, that is standard. Several people from the Civil Service should have resigned, they didn't. Sturgeon's testimony was obviously inconsistent at several points. This isn't the same thing as a "political attack" (again, be totally clear, Salmond has no political role...he isn't a politician, he is someone who used to be a politician). Also, there is no "big government machine" in Scotland, and it most certainly does not control the courts if it did exists. That just isn't how the law works in Scotland or the UK (if you needed evidence of this, both govts have had run ins with the courts...if this was true then why was Salmond found innocent).