In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

In the mid-1980s, ninjas walked the earth, starring in video games, G.I. Joe cartoons, and movies. Some of those movies were good. Most were not. This is one of the bad ones, perhaps veering into “so ...