-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Conant [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 March 2006 16:05
Subject: The silent treatment


 
> I just came across this depressing piece by Pat
> Clawson of Capitol Hill Blue.
> 
> If the press at large doesn't fight, then something
> is
> very, very wrong in America.
> 
> --- Pat Clawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> >
>
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/blog/2006/03/telling_the_approved_story.html
> > 
> > Telling the 'approved' story
> > 
> > March 7, 2006 01:12 AM / The Rant .
> > 
> > By DOUG THOMPSON
> > 
> > On an unspecified day last week an employee of a
> > federal agency that
> > cannot be revealed delivered a document that
> cannot
> > be identified to a
> > company that cannot be named seeking information
> > that cannot be discussed.
> > 
> > The aforementioned federal agent left the
> > unidentified document with
> > an employee of the unnamed company. That employee
> > then called the
> > owner, who must remain anonymous, to inform him
> that
> > the document that
> > could not be identified sought information that
> > could not be
> > discussed. The owner who must remain anonymous
> > instructed the employee
> > to deliver the unidentified document to a lawyer
> > whose name is
> > protected by attorney-client privilege.
> > 
> > The lawyer whose name is protected by
> > attorney-client privilege
> > examined the unidentified document and then
> reviewed
> > the information
> > that could not be discussed with the owner who
> must
> > remain anonymous.
> > 
> > With the approval of the owner who must remain
> > anonymous, the lawyer
> > whose name is protected by attorney-client
> privilege
> > contacted a U.S.
> > attorney who demanded that his identity be
> > concealed.
> > 
> > The U.S. attorney who demanded that his identity
> be
> > concealed then
> > claimed the owner who must remain anonymous
> violated
> > a law that could
> > not be disclosed and faced arrest for charges that
> > could not be
> > specified because he had referred to the document
> > that cannot be
> > identified in an article for a certain, but
> unnamed,
> > web site.
> > 
> > The lawyer whose name is protected by
> > attorney-client privilege argued
> > that his client could not be charged under the
> > undisclosed law because
> > he had been acting as a journalist at the time of
> > the alleged
> > publication and not as the owner of the company
> that
> > cannot be named.
> > He had, in fact, learned of the existence of the
> > document that cannot
> > be identified from a third-party, who was not
> named,
> > and was not aware
> > of its exact contents because he had not seen or
> > read the document
> > and, therefore, was not aware of the exact
> contents
> > that cannot be discussed.
> > 
> > The U.S. attorney who demanded his identity be
> > concealed consulted
> > with others who names are classified and concluded
> > that the owner who
> > must remain anonymous walked a fine line between
> > legal and illegal and
> > would not face arrest for violating a law that
> could
> > not be disclosed
> > on charges that could not be specified.
> > 
> > So walking this fine line of justice allowed the
> > owner who must remain
> > anonymous to avoid confinement at an institution
> at
> > an unknown
> > location for an unspecified length of time.
> > 
> > In exchange for his freedom, the owner who must
> > remain anonymous
> > agreed to write a "clarification" of what
> happened,
> > following the
> > guidelines for publication laid down by the Bush
> > administration.
> > 
> > Which is what you just read.
>


Best regards,
Paul Conant
732 947 0749
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