John Haughey
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Judge Christoper Cooper has denied prosecution’s request to introduce emails between Georgia Tech cyber expert David Dagon and others after Berkowitz asked Heide if he followed-up on agent Tom Grosso’s offer to provide Dagon as a “private sector subject expert.”
Prosecution maintained Berkowitz’s questioning of Heide “opened the door” to “materiality” for those emails to be introduced. Cooper disagreed. “Mr. Berkowitz confined his questions” to demonstrate “the FBI could have interviewed Mr. Dagon” but chose not to.
Cooper said email relates more to Rodney Joffe’s views, motivations, and said when Heide returns to stan for redirect, the prosecution can ask “what he would have asked in an interview of Mr. Dagon. We are not going to get into” Dagon’s views, motivations.
Heide being asked about 9/14/16 email from Joffe to David Dagon, Manos Antonakakis and April Lorenzen. “NOT to be able to say that this is, with out doubt, fact, but to merely be plausible.” Heide says the line in the email suggests that the report may have been fabricated.