Posted on 02/27/2019 11:48:28 AM PST by Enlightened1
This cooked-up pretext to invade the president’s attorney-client privilege is a stain of shame on the rule of law and tramples on a 500-year-old rule that protects our common law tradition.
The New York Times promised that today Michael Cohen, the president’s former attorney, “will describe in what was called ‘granular detail’ the plan to pay Ms. Daniels, which he will say was initiated by Mr. Trump, the person familiar with the testimony plans said.”
This, the Times rapturously promised, would provide, “evidence of potential criminal conduct since Mr. Trump became president.” As shown below, this cooked-up pretext to invade the president’s attorney-client privilege is a stain of shame on the rule of law and tramples on a 500-year-old rule that protects our common law tradition.
The FBI seized the recording during a raid of Cohen’s office. The New York Times did not say where it obtained the recording.
Subsequent to the release of the recording, the president chose not to assert attorney-client privilege. Those familiar with attorney-client confidentiality understand that the public release deprived him of any meaningful opportunity to make that choice. Nobody can un-hear the recordings.
It’s bad that an attorney maintained secret audio tapes of conversations with his client. Such information has a way of ending up in the wrong hands, and secretly making these tapes impairs the spirit of the attorney-client relationship. But it’s really bad that the American Civil Liberties Union posted an article cheerleading the raid. The government doesn’t need a cheerleader, and certainly not from the ACLU.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
The law does not apply to the left!
Cohen was just hired by “Dewey, Cheatem & Howe”.
attorney-client privilege does not apply to conservatives.
Haha!
The Democrats want what they've created here? They're going to get it good and hard.
"The Law" is nothing more than who controls the most gunthugs, now.
What a shammmmmm.....
Forcing? Nobody is forcing Cohen to divulge anything. He's doing it of his own free will.
Democrats are insane and corrupt.
Personally, if I was a juror in a Federal case I would have no inclination to convict anyone who is accused of a crime based on any FBI testimony or other evidence.
That alone makes me wonder if Cohen was put up to this by Trump himself.
Bkmk
Good article.
They don’t care, that’s a problem for the future. Right now the Dems care only about one thing: damaging Trump, either to impeach, indict, or beat him in the 2020 election so they can have their power back and undo everything he has done.
Do not forget this is a war. Mikey Cohen is a pissant POW who would rat out his own mother to get an extra bowl of rice. Forget him. Concentrate on the real war that is going on - the war against Trump.
I’m not sure that if you’ve been told to violate the law that attorney-client privilege is still relevant.
Well, that, and a suitcase full of Steyer cash for when he gets out of prison
The “Rule of Law” no longer exists. And hasn’t since the Clintons and their henchmen were allowed to go scott free for their many crimes. The purpose of the law and courts is to control the serfs and punish the political enemies of the Left.
The new “Songbird...” Surprised he didn’t fly to the Hanoi Hilton to give his “testimony.”
A dangerous precedent has been set.
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