reference, chris, the panetta review. i think it s actually important to have some context about what this was and what this wasn t. at the time director panetta said hey, let s keep track inside the cia of every document, all the thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of documents that were being provided to the congressional committee. let s keep track of them. let s summarize them. let s write-up short gists of those documents. at a certain point when attorney general holder authorized a criminal investigation by then acting u.s. attorney john durham to look into whether any criminal laws had been violated in the interrogation program, the agency in conjunction with doj decided to wind down the process of creating any other documents because as you know, chris that. could become exculpatory. and brady material, exculpatory material is not something a prosecutor wants. so that process stopped. so this document, if you will, was basically summaries of documents. they were
committee? so i think here you reference, chris, the panetta review. i think it s actually important to have some context about what this was and what this wasn t. at the time director panetta said hey, let s keep track inside the cia of every document, all the thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of documents that were being provided to the congressional committee. let s keep track of them. let s summarize them. let s write-up short gists of those documents. at a certain point when attorney general holder authorized a criminal investigation by then acting u.s. attorney john durham to look into whether any criminal laws had been violated in the interrogation program, the agency in conjunction with doj decided to wind down the process of creating any other documents because as you know, chris that. could become exculpatory. and brady material, exculpatory material is not something a prosecutor wants. so that process stopped. so this document, if you will, was basically s
ago. i want to refresh people s memories. she was convicted of having her five-year-old son, the story was, dressed him up in the favorite outfit. said he was going to meet santa claus. handed him over to roommate and another man, who took the boy out into the desert and shot him. the allegation it was all to correct $5,000 in insurance money. how does a conviction, like, that fred, get thrown out? well, jon a couple of ways. i was thinking about this morning. i m hard-pressed to think of a more horrific crime of all the cases we covered over last couple years. this was a terrible, terrible crime. the answer is how it got thrown out was the prosecution ultimately made a mistake. they had information about the credibility of the detective who testified about this woman s confession. and they didn t turn that over to the defense. there is this case, brady, where you have to turn over evidence to show the woman may be innocent. they should have turned the brady material over in the case
examining a professional. a lot of these medical examiners are very brief and to the point and they re not very revealing. bao is testifying like he just fell off a turnip truck. he s talking about let me refer to my notes on human memory. he s got a article in front about the human memory and heaven only knows what s in his handwritten notes which might include something we call brady material. if there s material in those written notes that in some way help the defense exonerate zi r zimmerman there s going to be a major uproar. it sounds like a lot of notes, it s a big development. did you see the smile on mark o ma o mara s face. they re astoundsed by this.
conducted, they need to turn it over. what the government has done is make themselves the custodian of all this evidence. in a civil case the rules are less stringent, and in a divorce case where attorneys routinely subpoena phone records they re not going to get direct access to the government phone records, but if the phone records disappeared from one of the phone carriers because they re too old or a glitch, they can get them. you re talking about brady material. exculpatory material prosecutors have to hand over. but the problem is the nice a for effort. a-plus for effort. agree with you in theory but it s never going to happen because here it what is going to happen. the government is going to say the prosecution is going to say, look, this is classified material. if we even have it. we re not even going to admit we have it. so, start right there if we have it, it s classified. if we have it and it s classified, we get to go to a