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Re: One Question
Posted by:
Jim Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: February 21, 2007 01:22PM
Gerald:
I do not know how to be any clearer. All the court cases said that is was not necessary to produce the original notes. In the criminal cases where the FBI was involved the court said that their 302 form, which is a typed report based on the hand written note, was sufficient.
What I said is that I combined two areas of thought into one sentence and they should have remained separate. One was how I interpreted something he said and the other was my opinion. The way I worded the sentence was misleading as it was written.
I suggested that no one has produced a case where the investigator transferred his original and then destroyed the original was ruled by the court to be a problem. The federal court system must accept this if the FBI is continuing this procedure. And for those who question as to where I find they are continuing this procedure, it is from the court’s rulings.
What I have introduced is fact, and for the purpose of discussion I would like to see more supporting information from the other point of view. Right how this is nothing more than a personal preference and one side trying to change the thinking of the other by suggesting they are evil for what they do, and that may truly be their opinion but it is in no way a fact. Right now we have it with one side saying my way is better than yours because I say so, and it well may be, but it is still up to the individual’s discretion as to what procedure to use until it becomes law.