Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I wouldn't let them testify either

I heard excerpts from the testimony of Alberto Gonzales before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was disgusting.

A bunch of lawyers playing gotcha. I have been on the witness stand in life. Many times. As a defendant and as an expert witness. Thinking about it all maybe 75 hours total. One thing I know is the attorney from the other side ALWAYS has as his prime purpose in life to impeach the witness. To go thru deposition, past testimony and any other information looking for that one tiny detail badly remembered or badly reported.

Lawyer: Mr Redlin, do you recall in your testimony of 3 years ago you said that the sky was blue on the day in question?

ME: I did say that.

Lawyer: I have here a report from the national weather service which says the sky had a cloud in it. Is it possible you were mistaken and perhaps a cloud was in the sky?

ME: It's possible. I don't know for sure.

Lawyer: Then you are saying that your testimony about the sky being blue is not now your testimony.

ME: I'm just testifying what I remember, I remember it being blue.

Lawyer: But you just testified that it could have had a cloud in it.

ME: That's what your report said.

Lawyer: So your testimony today and that of 3 years ago are different, in which were you lying.

That is the essence of the gotcha game the lawyers (none of whom have ever held actual jobs in life) on the judiciary committee are playing. It's the same as the railroad job they gave Scooter Libby.

And they wonder why President Bush won't send anyone to testify? Why should he? What benefit is there to him or his administration? Making friends? These people are his enemies and he has no incentive whatsoever to cooperaate. If I were him I would give the a big wave off in the most graphic way possible and instructions on where and what to osculate.

Get the Kangaroos out of the court and maybe there's a chance. The good news is what I saw the American People saw. FOOLS. They know why President Bush will and should NEVER allow ANYONE ever to testify under oath ever again about even what they had for lunch yesterday. It's all about gotcha.

OH, and so you don't think for a second that the example about the weather is exaggerated. That is a masked version of an impeachment of testimony from a trial I was an expert in a several months ago. The problem I wasn't the one being impeached, it was the plaintiff and it nearly exactly was the nature of the testimony. Remembering the weather.

We won. I wasn't proud of being part of such a process even if I did get paid.
I don't think a few members of the judiciary committee are very proud right now. I wouldn't be.

Shakespeare was right, "First Kill All the Lawyers".

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why wouldn't they play Gotcha with a bald face lair. This is the man who in front of a Senate committee more than 75 times claimed he could not remember. Even the Republicans got disgusted with his stonewalling on orders of the Administration. Sure had he told the truth he would have been fired and or impeached. But we expect our attorney General above all else to be honest. It was stated by several Republicans in a little more genteel manner than I will use... is either a lairs or an idiot.

I have been around senior executives of major corporation most of my life. The only thing they ever forgot about a important meeting where termination were discussed is what they wanted to forget. These guys have minds like steal traps and the good ones can quote line by line what was said.... we should at least have some one as smart in the AG's position.

This is just more of the same incompetence and obfuscation that has been going on in the Bush administration since day one. He appoints idiots and then expects them to lie for him. What a failed leader this man has been but we should have known.

And it comes as no surprise that you would be defending these scoundrels because you like Bush can never admit that you were wong no matter how much evidence is stacked up in front of you.

Anonymous said...

Shakespeare was right, "First Kill All the Lawyers".

A - That is not quite the quote.
B - The quote is from a peice in which Shakespeare was actually paying homage to lawyers so you usage is wrong. But you make a commonly made mistake.
C - Once again, Gene tears down.

Got a better system? It works pretty well and it's all we've got. It is, yes, populated by imperfect humans. Like everything else.

Why not spend some time on proposing postive solutions to problems or praising the accomplishments of achievers instead of this negative negative negative ranting?

Anonymous said...

What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

....a good start