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Forsaking Privacy - Retroactive Criminality
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:00:51 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Jim Zellmer <zellmer () virtualproperties com> Date: July 7, 2004 10:55:34 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Forsaking Privacy - Retroactive Criminality Hi Dave - For IP if you wish: I read the post on Ashcroft's retroactive classification of the Edmonds case and thought this recent Washington Times article by Paul Craig Roberts was an appropriate followup subject. We do need to wake up and stop the erosion of our rights! Best - Jim ---------------- Paul Craig Roberts (no permanent link - so I copied it to my blog here) http://www.zmetro.com/archives/000462.html "If the government had access to the communications between a client and his lawyer, the lawyer would be nothing but a government agent, likeSoviet defense attorneys, whose official role was to serve as adjuncts to
the prosecution." Once upon a time, the U.S. Justice Department respected the legal rights that make law a shield of the innocent rather than a weapon of government. No more. What the great English jurist William Blackstone called "the Rights of Englishmen" have been eroded beyond recognition. The last remaining right -- the attorney-client privilege -- is under full-scale assault by Justice Department prosecutors in the tax shelter case involving the accounting firm KPMG. The Justice Department has demanded, and the accounting firm has agreed to, a waiver of the attorney-client privilege for communications between lawyers and KPMGemployees involved in marketing tax shelters the Internal Revenue Service
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