Posted on 8/31/2005, 11:56:14 PM by perfect stranger
Sen. Teddy Kennedy has demanded that the Bush administration waive attorney-client privilege and release internal memos John Roberts worked on while in the solicitor general's office 15 years ago, all of which were supposed to be held in the deepest confidence. Apparently, Kennedy thinks public officials have no right to keep even their attorney-client communications secret.
This surprised me because the senator is such a strong advocate of the (nonexistent) "right to privacy." And not just in the way most drunken, Spanish quiz-cheating, no-pants-wearing public reprobates generally cherish their own personal right to privacy. I mean privacy in the abstract.
I know as much about the "right to privacy" as I know about any other made-up, nonexistent right, but I would have thought that any "right to privacy" would protect confidential attorney-client conversations at least as much as, say, abortions in public buildings.
But I'll have to defer to the expert.
Consequently, applying the principle even-handedly to members of the executive branch as well as the legislative branch, I demand that Kennedy immediately waive all attorney-client privilege relating to his communications with his lawyer after he drove Mary Jo Kopechne off the bridge at Chappaquiddick. It's time to clear up, once and for all, the many questions that have swirled around Kennedy since Chappaquiddick.
Oops – "swirled" may have been a poor choice of words there. How about "floated"? Nope. "Surfaced"? Oooh – even worse, in terms of irony. "Come to light"? OK, now I'm just being obtuse. "Beset"? Yes, that's better.
Youth is no defense. John Roberts was 26 years old when he wrote the documents that Kennedy demands on behalf of the Senate. Kennedy was 36 when he drove Mary Jo Kopechne off a bridge.
If the Senate needs to know what Roberts thought about the law at age 26, then the Senate certainly needs to know what Kennedy thought about the law at age 36, when he drowned a girl and then spent the rest of the evening concocting an alibi instead of calling the police.
This isn't a "rehash" of Chappaquiddick; it's never been hashed. The Senate needs to know whether Kennedy was guilty of manslaughter. How else can the Senate be expected to carry out its constitutional duty to expel Kennedy unless Kennedy makes these key documents available?
We'll pick them up in the same van we send to collect John Kerry's military records and Bill Clinton's medical records.
While we wait, here's my guess as to what those attorney-client conversations sounded like, based on the facts in Leo Damore's book "Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up":
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Interview with client Teddy Kennedy, July 19, 1969:
Teddy: May I approach the bench?
Lawyer: It's not a bench, Teddy. It's my desk. And no, you can't have another Chivas Regal.
Teddy: (Hiccup)
Lawyer: Let's start at the beginning.
Teddy: I'm going to say you were driving.
Lawyer: No, you are not saying I was driving.
Teddy: OK, someone in your family was driving.
Lawyer: They weren't even in Massachusetts that week. Can we move on? Why didn't you call the police after the accident, Teddy?
Teddy: I had to protect my political career, obviously. But this wasn't just about me! I was thinking about future drunk, philandering U.S. senators who may or may not have just drowned some chick they met at a party.
Lawyer: But what about Mary Jo --
Teddy: Yes, precisely! How would it look if I, a United States senator, were driving off to a secluded beach at midnight with a beautiful, nubile female after a private party? How would that look?
Lawyer: But Mary Jo was still alive for two hours --
Teddy: Did I mention my wife was pregnant? You think I should have reported the accident now, Mr. Smartypants?
Lawyer: She was trapped in that car, struggling to breathe!
Teddy: Do you know that two of my brothers were assassinated?
Lawyer: She was still alive! You could have saved her!
Teddy: Yeah, and say goodbye to my presidential ambitions. There was the future of the country to consider – as well as the future of the Chivas Regal company and all their employees. I am a Kennedy. I have a divine right to the presidency. I had to put that ahead of my lawyer's conscience. Anyway, Mary Jo was driving.
Lawyer: Teddy, we can't say Mary Jo was driving.
Teddy: What if some phony witness claimed that the driver stopped to ask for directions. Wouldn't that prove it was a woman driving?
Lawyer: But what about the witnesses?
Teddy: We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Hey, what's so funny? Did I just say something funny?
To be continued ...
Have another Chivas teddy!
Brutal! I love it!
Your quote from Ann Coulter is just ridiculous. "They are either traitors or idiots." C'mon, Ann! There's no reason in the world that they can't be both.
The sad truth is, that's probably exactly how the conversation went.
I'd like to see Ann Coulter replace the dimwitted Ruth Bader or Souter on the Supreme Court.
ROFL..God I love the senses of humor when it comes to FReepers..:)
Ping to the weekly Coulter
"Oh, she was feeling a little dirty after the affairs of the night so she got out of the Olds and went to wash up by the bridge...."
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
BTTT
I want to know if the Kennedy's paid any estate taxes when John, Jr. and his wife crashed.
I bet they didn't.
I would dare say that old teddy best be carefull about releasing information.....he has alot to hide, especially about Mary Jo....
There is still alot to know about that situation and I think we need a special investigation to find out what really happened....
Besides, lets see....7 married men and 7 single women...hummm that could only mean one thing huh?
And what was teddy baby doing with Mary Jo? He was not just taking her back to the ferry or maybe to his hotel room...nope he had other plans for her....
So I think before the slime that is under the snake's belly opens his mouth about such things that should be kept private, he had best think were this just might lead....
Ditto!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighting Troops
Hey Uncle Teddy, where are your pants? Well um er ahhhh, Willy the last time I um ahhhhhh errrr seen them was at the AU BAR with you and your first victim umm I ahhhh mean date, Willy Smith.
http://www.ytedk.com/
Heard the old one, about how difficult it was -- even for a Kennedy -- to dress a naked woman under water.
And I hope this doesn't upset the poor girl's parents, but I understand they were paid off handsomely.
It was a public disgrace.
It's all water under the bridge by now, isn't it Ann? ;)
LOL
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