Posted on 10/30/2009 12:55:57 PM PDT by SmithL
SACRAMENTO — The press secretary for California Attorney General Jerry Brown has been secretly recording telephone conversations with reporters, an apparent violation of state law.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday that spokesman Scott Gerber acknowledged taping a phone interview with one of its reporters. It said Gerber later acknowledged recording other conversations with reporters without asking their permission.
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I’m governor Jerry Brown, my aura smiles and never frowns. Soon I will be Pres-i-dent. - California Uber Alles (Dead Kennedys)
I certainly would record anything I said to the press and I would demand that they record also so that they can never have deniability when they misquote me.
What’s the big deal? Brown is a lib and it’s not like he was taping ACORN workers....
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to get you.
Jerry Brown , I demand that you investigate........er, Jerry Brown
This is BS check California law only confidential conversations are prevented from being recorded without two party consent. Unless the reporters asked that the conversation be confidential, IMO no violation.
He was boffing Linda Ronstadt back when she was hot.
I have litigated the issue in court and you’re opinion wouldn’t hold water. It’s not so much the subject matter of the conversation, but the means of communication. Phone calls, in that respect, are confidential. Of course, LEOs are exempt in the furtherance of their duties.
I don’t understand why it’s against the law to tape people without their knowledge. For the government, I get it. We don’t need them collecting information for any reason.
But for the rest of us? What about sending your voice out there into the ether and miles away into someone else’s ears gives you an expectation of privacy? Seriously, I think we should expect to be recorded any time we leave the house—physically or via sound waves/electrical impulses. Heck, we should even expect people can record us while we’re on our property, so long as the recorder isn’t on said property (using a directional mic, for instance). That’s how we handle telephoto lenses. Why not recording equipment?
“Phone calls, in that respect, are confidential.”
Why? (philosophically speaking, not legally)
IIRC, he was "not-boffing" Ronstadt at the time. She was arm candy; he was gay.
Because no one expects them to be tapped or recorded, unlike a conversation at the counter of the local diner.
“Because no one expects them to be tapped or recorded, unlike a conversation at the counter of the local diner.”
Do they? I’ve never thought it to be the equivalent of whispering in a dark corner of my own home when I get on the phone. For one thing, you can’t see what the other person’s doing. You can take it for granted he’s alone, that no one else is listening, or that he isn’t recording, but why should you.
I’ve just never thought of using the phone as a private affair. My vioce isn’t stayting within the comfort of my home. It’s travelling often over the course of miles, into sometimes unkown territory.
He was boffing Linda Ronstadt back when she was hot.
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They were friends and hung out but............I have it on good authority that women were not his first choice.
Learn something new every day... what a waste, she was a cutie back in the day.
Interesting . . .because Jerry Brown - as California Attorney General - is the one looking at whether Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe broke any California laws when they secretly taped ACORN giving advice on how to bring 13 & 15 year old illegal girls into the US for prostitution. What a hypocrite!
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