-------- Original Message -------- 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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? ================ From: Jonathan Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: February 28, 2006 10:23:51 AM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IP] Diebold Voting Machine Whistle-Blower being prosecuted for "Stealing documents"] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frightening waterfowl since 1963 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
