Former FTC Chair Bill Kovacic sees the lawsuit against Amazon as a major test for reining in internet companies and for the legal thinking that propelled current Chair Lina Khan’s meteoric rise.
typical strategy. think of the oj case was we don t know much about the o.j. simpson case if they ask everybody but they remember mark furman because that was the defense attorney s strategy. attack the investigator. the facts of the case, what happened, the evidence recovered meant nothing because they wanted to shift attention away, diapered attention over to what is it about the investigation? that is what we are seeing now, smoke and mirrors. at the end of the day, through the initial impeachment investigation proceedings we will find more information. it will be interesting to see the tax returns and interesting to hear why the president asked don began to make up information. those things will come out but it will take time. daymac folks are interested to see what comes out of the inspector general s report as well on the other side of this equation. thank you for your time.
cops. a lot of people have an ax to grind against cops. walk us through this. a lot of the most damning many testimony is from cops. officer ward here says officers is kept bb guns in their vehicles so if we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shoot-out, a killing, we could plant them, share lynn. this is what has been so riveting and so devastating to hear is that these are not allegations coming from just residents although i have to say, ari, these are things that residents and community members have been saying in baltimore for years. apparently they know. yes, they have been disbelieved, gas lighted. people wondered when the national media with all the cameras came to baltimore to say why are people engaged in this unrest after freddie gray is killed, this has a piece of that puzzle. and so it s been known but what you have in this case is you have actual police officers a number of whom pled guilty in this case by the way, describing the criminal enterprise,
powerful media outlets in the world. it was a sophisticated online push that put russian propaganda on the release the memo. we re all more vulnerable online, but we re more likely to live in all kinds of information bubbles. you can think of it like a less extreme version of the 1998 classic show, truman burbank lived inside a propaganda bubble, but it was all fake streets, fake news, all to produce the first 24/7 self-enclosed reality show. truman began blissful in his infi infor rans. in case i don t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night. but then the bubble begins to crack.
find judicial rulings throwing out perjury traps? i think the whole notion of a perjury trap is kind of a misnomer, and it s actually just as dangerous or more dangerous, it s sort of a clash of personalities and ideas. which often have prosecutors and agents who have been looking at a case, studying it, spending their days and nights with it. who get ready to do questioning, and then you have a witness who s supposed to be giving answers to the questions from the agents, and memories aren t perfect, recollections aren t perfect, people speak loosely and so what you wind up happening, and i think if you ask those same defense lawyers if they have had the same situation, i bet all of them would say yes, it s where a prosecutor and an agent asking a question and a witness gives an answer, thinking that they re being straight up and the prosecutor and agent think they lied. and that s a big danger in this situation. but that as you explain is not a trap, that is the