So, slightly off topic here, but why oh why is it at all necessary for the contents of documents to be revealed during a trial on the theft and/or retention, improper handling, and refusal to return those documents?
If "greymail" is an issue and there is a fear that Trump's lawyers will try to use exposure of the contents of those documen…
So, slightly off topic here, but why oh why is it at all necessary for the contents of documents to be revealed during a trial on the theft and/or retention, improper handling, and refusal to return those documents?
If "greymail" is an issue and there is a fear that Trump's lawyers will try to use exposure of the contents of those documents as a threat to coerce the government into pulling back some or all of the charges, why is the classification of the documents not sufficient to protect them from being revealed? One would expect such a reveal would be considered a crime by Trump and/or his lawyers in much the same way as Trump's more recent defamation of E. Jean has been added to the list of his charges.
Why is it necessary to reveal the contents of a jewel box in a trial to determine the guilt of the alleged thief? If the value is in question, it seems a role for an expert witness. If it's deemed necessary to reveal the documents' content, then will they need to reveal all documents in all of those boxes - clearly not. What content could possibly prove that Trump did not mishandle any of all those documents? Even if one is his own golfing sheet, still if even one is top secret, he is still guilty.
Showing any of those to anyone, including the judge (another reason to shudder at the idea of Cannon even starting out as the trial judge) seems entirely logically unnecessary. I must lack the proper imagination. This has been puzzling me.
my understanding is that the indictment deliberately avoided the issue of classification since the Espionage Act doesn't mention anything about what level of secrecy is assigned to the documents, only that they're concerned with defense issues.
and let's remember that this case happened first because it's the most open-and-shut one.
although that "perfect" Georgia phone call case comes pretty close.
looking at the metaphysical nature of these things, I've been wondering exactly what would make a phone call "perfect." I've been on some wonderful phone calls (last month, I had a splendid phone call on the occasion of an old friend's 75th birthday), but PERFECT??? as is so often true of anything relating to TFF, my mind threatens to spin so fast it will leave its old axis and end up god knows where.
So, slightly off topic here, but why oh why is it at all necessary for the contents of documents to be revealed during a trial on the theft and/or retention, improper handling, and refusal to return those documents?
If "greymail" is an issue and there is a fear that Trump's lawyers will try to use exposure of the contents of those documents as a threat to coerce the government into pulling back some or all of the charges, why is the classification of the documents not sufficient to protect them from being revealed? One would expect such a reveal would be considered a crime by Trump and/or his lawyers in much the same way as Trump's more recent defamation of E. Jean has been added to the list of his charges.
Why is it necessary to reveal the contents of a jewel box in a trial to determine the guilt of the alleged thief? If the value is in question, it seems a role for an expert witness. If it's deemed necessary to reveal the documents' content, then will they need to reveal all documents in all of those boxes - clearly not. What content could possibly prove that Trump did not mishandle any of all those documents? Even if one is his own golfing sheet, still if even one is top secret, he is still guilty.
Showing any of those to anyone, including the judge (another reason to shudder at the idea of Cannon even starting out as the trial judge) seems entirely logically unnecessary. I must lack the proper imagination. This has been puzzling me.
my understanding is that the indictment deliberately avoided the issue of classification since the Espionage Act doesn't mention anything about what level of secrecy is assigned to the documents, only that they're concerned with defense issues.
and let's remember that this case happened first because it's the most open-and-shut one.
although that "perfect" Georgia phone call case comes pretty close.
looking at the metaphysical nature of these things, I've been wondering exactly what would make a phone call "perfect." I've been on some wonderful phone calls (last month, I had a splendid phone call on the occasion of an old friend's 75th birthday), but PERFECT??? as is so often true of anything relating to TFF, my mind threatens to spin so fast it will leave its old axis and end up god knows where.
They have to present the evidence in such a way that it "proves" their case.