The Justice Department is not intrinsically evil, they are the antagonist in this story though.
Understand that Aaron's story is a classic Greek Tragedy, I'm sure that at this very moment some playwright/screenwriter is putting together a treatment of the form:
Act I: The boundless potential of unlimited talent in youth
Act II: The conflict of passion and righteousness over the injustice of broken copyright law. Climaxing in the arrest.
Act III: The pain of our hero being buried under a system too inured to the reality of the situation to distract it from its mission, and Aaron's death.
It has Oscar/Pulitzer written all over it. And if it can move the nation to change, like the novel To Kill a Mockingbird did, then Aaron's death won't be in vain.
The Justice Department is in the role of bad guy/antagonist in this play. They were the unwilling heroes in the antitrust action against Microsoft, and the before that the enforcement of civil rights laws. So they are equally capable of being 'put' in either role.
The only problem with your view is that the prosecutor has a wide degree of personal choice about how viciously to prosecute, and thus bears moral responsibility. It's the same as a soldier who chooses where to aim his gun -- there are moral choices of where to point it and immoral choices. In this case, the prosecutor made an immoral choice.
So this is not about "The Justice Department", it's about a person in a position of power, who abused that power.
To be explicitly precise, the attorney in this case was doing her job. No more, no less. To rise to the level of abuse of power would require that she pursue a case that she could not win, or to withhold information needed for a proper defense, Etc.
I don't defend her actions, but neither do I presume to know her intentions. I do not imagine her cackling with glee at this outcome. Vilifying her, as an individual doing her job, is not warranted. That leaves the organization which gave her that job and ordered her to do it.
It is by that reasoning that I do believe it is about the "Justice Department" and not a particular prosecuting attorney within the department.
Doing her job? Please see the movie "Judgement at Nuremberg" regarding "I was just doing my job". Seriously, see this movie.
And, "no less"? On the contrary, all prosecutors do substantially less. They don't actually apply the law most of the time, if they did, we'd probably all be in prison. See this book:
Wow. If you seriously believe that the suicide of a mentally unstable defendant in a criminal trial, imputes the same level of human rights abuse as racial genocide then I really won't be able to change your mind.
Understand that Aaron's story is a classic Greek Tragedy, I'm sure that at this very moment some playwright/screenwriter is putting together a treatment of the form:
Act I: The boundless potential of unlimited talent in youth
Act II: The conflict of passion and righteousness over the injustice of broken copyright law. Climaxing in the arrest.
Act III: The pain of our hero being buried under a system too inured to the reality of the situation to distract it from its mission, and Aaron's death.
It has Oscar/Pulitzer written all over it. And if it can move the nation to change, like the novel To Kill a Mockingbird did, then Aaron's death won't be in vain.
The Justice Department is in the role of bad guy/antagonist in this play. They were the unwilling heroes in the antitrust action against Microsoft, and the before that the enforcement of civil rights laws. So they are equally capable of being 'put' in either role.