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

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: [IP] more on Diebold Voting Machine Whistle-Blower being
prosecuted for "Stealing documents"]
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:35:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Rob McMillin <scareduck () yahoo com>
To: dave () farber net

And so what?  Diebold was absolutely breaking the law, and in a way
fundamentally destructive to our very way of government.  Mr. Goldstein
can go on all day about the law and its majesty, but at the end of the
day, which is more corrosive to that same body of law he purports to
hold dear: making possible widespread, easy, and undetectable voting
fraud?  Or getting evidence of this same published in the press?

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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.

---
Robert McMillin | scareduck () yahoo com
Frightening waterfowl since 1963

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