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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (12148)	11/1/1998 10:27:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Respond to of 67261

Les, guess you missed the point. The situations I sketched should have rung a bell. Husband/wife cannot be compelled to testify against each other. Attorney/client privilege protects your wife's discussions with your attorney from being demanded against you. The other examples were hearsay, second party rumor. Regarding the upcoming legal challenge on attorney client privilege where the Supreme Court may hear the case.. It will probably be a relatively unimportant insight into Lindsay's legal opinion at the time or it could reveal a vast new conspiracy of underwear laundering. It doesn't really matter. What's the point of having your own council if you know they can be compelled to reveal how and why you intend to defend yourself... why not just make the system more efficient and have only a judge and prosecutor deciding justice? Its a flawed system, but sometimes flawed is better than seeking perfection where it can't exist. Absolute power corrupts.. remember that phrase? The individuals that comprise the state, whether its a president or a chief justice or a special prosecutor are all available to errors of mis-judgement or even intentional mis-judgement. If you've ever built an engine you know that you need a little play in the system or it explodes.. the same is true with a system that seeks justice. "The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it." Woodrow Wilson