Puck, I guess "semblance" of a life is as good a term as any. In other words, outwardly, he does have a job working for the Pentagon but his days are utterly consumed with clearing his name which, unfortunately, is synonymous with solving the crime.
Recall that Jim has a PhD in international security from Fletcher and is a member of the U.S. Naval Intelligence Reserves. Also recall that he taught two wildly popular classes at Yale in "Strategy and Policy in the Conduct of War" and "The Art of Diplomacy." If it weren't for things over which he had no control he'd most probably be a key news analyst regarding our war against terrorism. In the mean time, Jim has taken off for military training in the middle east and probably won't be back until next month.
In other news...
- Jim's lawsuits against Yale and the NH Police Department are almost complete and will be filed at the appropriate time. After those there may be a third suit against an individual whose misrepresentations to the police proved to be exceedingly detrimental.
- Andy Rosenzweig, the Yale private investigator, has been continuously investigating the case... but in total secrecy. We have no idea, barring that he solves it, if his findings will ever be made public as his only obligation appears to be to his employer. Apparently Andy doesn't like me too much as he thinks my own investigation is getting in his way and that I might be "tampering with witnesses" which he says may be a crime. Andy seems to forget that although he was once chief investigator for the Manhattan District Attorney, in this case, we are both just private citizens. He also seems to forget that if people like Jim and me and everyone on this thread didn't "prove" the police investigation was totally screwed up from the start and push for an "expert" to be brought in, he probably wouldn't have been hired in the first place. Perhaps Andy is a tad big-headed knowing that Tom Hanks is slated to play him in the theatrical version of Philip Gourevitch's "A Cold Case" (g).
BTW, I did call Andy to assure him that the last thing I wanted to do was mess things up for him. I told him I intended to file my Freedom of Information request much earlier than I did but waited for several months after he was hired to make sure he had plenty of time to review all the police files first. I suggested we meet and talk about things, he agreed, but has yet to call.
- The FOI appeal is slated to be heard at 2pm on October 10th. I can't for the life of me figure out how not a single page of the thousands in the file was ordered to be released. Something is not right there.
I've transcribed some material from the first hearing that I'll post later tonight which explains how the New Haven police feed info to the State's Attorney who in turn feeds it to Rosenzweig. I have no problems with that and, conversely, applaud the SA's office for bringing in a pair of "fresh eyes". However, what really bothered me was the SA himself trying best he could to obfuscate this fact at the hearing. As he admitted his office is not subject to FOI requests, the only reason I could think of that he not only attended the meeting but interjected himself so prominently was that he didn't trust the NH PD rep and his counsel. As far as I am concerned, my request for information is now synonymous with that of the Hartford Courant meaning I am requesting everything in the file. Thus, what Rosenzweig was or was not given is not relevant to me.
- Jeff |
