FC: Federal bureaucrats defend snooping on U.S. judges

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Ralph Mecham, if the quotes in the article are accurate, is one of the 
most nasty, snide, and petty characters that I've encountered since I began 
covering the federal bureaucracy. Shame on him. --Declan]

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Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 22:39:37 -0700
To: politech () politechbot com, declan () well com
From: Tim Bishop <timbishop () email com>
Subject: NYT article re Judge Kozinski and Mecham.

Declan,

There is an article in today's NYT, 
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/technology/09COUR.html, on the monitoring 
of judicial internet use.  It has some amazing and disgusting quotes by 
Leonidas Ralph Mecham:
He also said Judge Kozinski had shown "great interest in keeping 
pornography available to judges," especially of what Mr. Mecham called "the 
more homosexual and exotic varieties."

Pretty amazing stuff that you might want to send out to politech readers 
who are following this stuff. I  was so outraged at the quote that I send 
Judge Kozinski a personal message of support, even though I don't now him 
from Adam.

Thanks,
Tim Bishop, happy politech subscriber.




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