more on Diebold Voting Machine Whistle-Blower being prosecuted for "Stealing documents"]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Somewhere there is a line djf

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From: Jonathan Goldstein <jonathan.goldstein () gmail com>
Date: February 28, 2006 10:23:51 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Diebold Voting Machine Whistle-Blower being  
prosecuted for "Stealing documents"]
Reply-To: jonathan () pobox com

To Rob's question, the "whistle-blower" is being prosecuted because  
he stole confidential attorney-client documents and attorney work  
product and released them to the public.  The documents were not his  
and he took them and used them for his own purposes, substituting his  
own judgment for that of the trained attorneys who had been retained  
to give advice.

The reason we have attorney-client privilege and protection for  
attorney work product is so that people facing difficult  
circumstances know that they can speak candidly with their attorneys  
as they seek advice.

For a word processor who has been given access to such documents to  
reveal them at his own whim is the height of arrogance.  Who knows  
what advice Diebold was seeking at the time those documents were in  
the hands of its attorneys?  It surely was not up to Mr. Heller to  
break the confidence established between the attorney and his client.

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