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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony,
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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (87477)10/25/2004 2:16:51 AM
From: Bill Ulrich  Read Replies (2) of 122087
 
re: Item 1: I remember that part of the history differently:

"From what I've read, and correct me if I'm wrong, it was a 9-11 related investigation of Elgindy that uncovered the FBI connection, not the other way around."

IIRC, Royer or one of the other agents was accessing files for cases to which they weren't involved. That raised an internal audit flag. The 911 stuff was an after-thought of the prosecutor speaking before thinking, and went away pretty quickly.

re: Item #2 I'm unclear as to why this assumption is necessary:

"For sake of argument, let’s assume 100% of the information given to Elgindy was also obtainable using public resources, such as the Internet."

Those files can contain a lot of material that isn't public knowledge, and can impair ongoing investigations if it were, not to mention compromising important personal privacy matters to "the masses", so to speak.

re: Item #3: There isn't a greater good in substituting one crime for another. It's a wash. Perhaps it'd be different if he weren't actively engaging the agents in the partnership; that is, if he obtained the info from some "benevolent, anonymous source". Have to think about that some more.

"...do the ends justify the means?"

re: Item #4: Not enough info to form a relevant opinion at present.

"Was Elgindy’s crime trivial compared to others?"
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