The more "hands on" knowledgeable people commenting here @ FR, the better.
I am (obviously) not a legal beagle. Upthread, this was posted:
You don’t have a right to be shown all the documents in the possession of the government before being questioned.
33 posted on 7/10/2018 9:17:40 PM by Bruce Campbells Chin
Is this correct, in this situation?
Sounds right. You don’t show a suspected criminal all the evidence you have against them re being the perp and committing the crime.
At the booking and at the grand jury, attorneys for the government sometimes only present enough evidence to get an indictment and for charging purposes.
Here’s something, that out of 6-7 billion on earth today 9and from 4-6 Billion in the past (1950’s - 70s or so), only a handful of people knew what I’m writing here.
A friend of mine, a longtime government internal security official and expert, told me that for the Rosenberg/Sobell espionage trials, “the government only presented enough evidence for a conviction”.
At that time, I figured out that the Govt had more information they withheld because of some kind of security concern. My best quest is that the withheld information was that obtained by the VENONA PROJECT (i.e. electronic intercepts of Soviet radio transmissions to and from the US and England), which were later cracked to reveal the codenames of Julius Rosenberg, his Soviet contacts, and others in the Atomic Bomb espionage ring. (See Haynes & Klehr, Haynes (”Venona”); Klehr & Vassiliev (”Spies”); Romerstein & Breindel “The Venona Secret”) re their books on “VENONA”, among others.
This was a case of the Government NOT telling the Soviets that not only had we intercepted many of their spy communications (which the reds suspected), but that Lamphere and his team had cracked a significant part of the code and code names as early as the 1950’s. This was not made known publicly until the 1980’s.
And from 1952 or so till 1995, nobody except a handful of US Intelligence agents (FBI, including my friend who directed the Operation Solo affair), knew that we had a “man” in the Kremlin and Havana, Morris Childs, one of the Communist Party USA/Soviet Union-KGB top men in the US. [Chicago territory including a possible major influence via his red son on Obama as a mentor or at least a political guidance figure).
Welcome to the wonderful world of subversion and espionage.
A couple things I said in my Executive Session testimony about CPUSA operations in the US were never released, basically the key one being classified as “hearsay”. It took 30 years before the person I mentioned admitted that he had been a secret Party member (and possible Soviet spy - research is still ongoing on that one but he “smelled” KGB).
Yes. It is often done as a courtesy, but it isn’t a legal requirement.
They are probably not allowing her to see the documents she produced.