With a trial date looming around the corner, Barry Bonds’ defense team has filed additional motions in an attempt to exclude possible evidence proffered by the United States Department of Justice. I’ve previously blogged about how the Media has no clue about the Barry Bonds Indictment. Just recently the Feds have raided the home of Greg Anderson’s mother-in-law in what appears to be an attempt to pressure Anderson into testifying against Bonds.
Change being the slogan of his campaign, it appears that President Obama has held true to one of his campaign promises. Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Obama issued a Memorandum to Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies regarding the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
FBI, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and University of California Police Raid business, break into locked rooms, seize all computers, make no arrests and later return the computers.
The James Madison Project is at it again or I should probably say, still at it. In 2007 JMP filed suit against the CIA related to their FOIA requests being ignored.
This is a Freedom of Information action seeking expedited processing and release of CIA records pertaining to the 2005 destruction of videotapes of the interrogations of suspected terrorists Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
I was reading CalAware Today and came across the posting about Thousands of Requested Records. Citing the Contra Costa Times article (their link doesn’t work) Public Records Act Requests were submitted by Brian Hildreth, Esq. representing numerous residents of Rancho Palos Verdes. Thousands of documents were copied and prepared, only to have Mr. Hildreth withdraw the request.
Maura Dolan and Jason Felch of the Los Angeles Times recently wrote:
By far the most reliable forensic science, it still has limits: Samples can be contaminated and may go untested for years. And collecting it may violate privacy laws.
Using California’s Public Records Act, records were obtained to show how the crime labs were handling samples and some of the problems with the collection and preservation.
