The latest - the nonsense over the Michael Cohen secret recordings of his client, then-business-magnate-and-builder Donald J. Trump.
The latest episode in our cheesy saga sees attorney Michael Cohen's lawyer, seasoned Clinton hack Lanny Davis, releasing to CNN a recording of Donald Trump clandestinely taped by Davis's client, Attorney Cohen.
People occasionally ask me: "You are an Orthodox rabbi and an attorney? Those fields are so different! How did you get into such different fields?" And I answer that Orthodox rabbis, unlike clergy of other faiths, actually are practitioners not only of pastoral care and spiritual succor but also of law - lots and lots of law.
To encourage people to seek sound legal advice - to come right out and spell out what they are wrestling with so that their attorney can grasp the full dimensions of the legal quandary that requires sage guidance - our society has secured and assured certain rock-solid confidentiality privileges.
What sane person would retain the services of a lawyer who secretly records clients? "Let's see, you are charging me $700 an hour. Can you at least assure me that all your secret recordings are being done on high-quality tape?" It is mind boggling.
Your own lawyer taping you? Although some states allow single-party recording - that is, for one person to tape someone else without that other person knowing the conversation is being recorded - other states require the knowledge and permission of both parties to a recording.
In the Michael Cohen tape, it is crystal clear from the recording - again, listen carefully to the exact words: "Rdghaj dkjdb cash odfvj check alsmlmk lxn zlxk" - that the President was not engaged in any legal wrongdoing, not even close.
https://spectator.org/as-the-swamp-turns/
The latest episode in our cheesy saga sees attorney Michael Cohen's lawyer, seasoned Clinton hack Lanny Davis, releasing to CNN a recording of Donald Trump clandestinely taped by Davis's client, Attorney Cohen.
People occasionally ask me: "You are an Orthodox rabbi and an attorney? Those fields are so different! How did you get into such different fields?" And I answer that Orthodox rabbis, unlike clergy of other faiths, actually are practitioners not only of pastoral care and spiritual succor but also of law - lots and lots of law.
To encourage people to seek sound legal advice - to come right out and spell out what they are wrestling with so that their attorney can grasp the full dimensions of the legal quandary that requires sage guidance - our society has secured and assured certain rock-solid confidentiality privileges.
What sane person would retain the services of a lawyer who secretly records clients? "Let's see, you are charging me $700 an hour. Can you at least assure me that all your secret recordings are being done on high-quality tape?" It is mind boggling.
Your own lawyer taping you? Although some states allow single-party recording - that is, for one person to tape someone else without that other person knowing the conversation is being recorded - other states require the knowledge and permission of both parties to a recording.
In the Michael Cohen tape, it is crystal clear from the recording - again, listen carefully to the exact words: "Rdghaj dkjdb cash odfvj check alsmlmk lxn zlxk" - that the President was not engaged in any legal wrongdoing, not even close.
https://spectator.org/as-the-swamp-turns/
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