We don't want prosecutorial information shared with nonprosecutors.
As John Dean wrote in his recent book, The Nixon Defenses, What He Knew and When He Knew It, Nixon would "shamelessly attempt to manipulate [Petersen], using insider prosecutorial information from Petersen to protect Haldeman, Ehrlichman and himself".
Mr. Rivera, whose initial appeals were denied, filed a writ of habeas corpus in 1995 arguing that his conviction should be reversed because it was secured through prosecutorial misconduct — including withholding information about another potential suspect — lying witnesses, and police who brutalized and bribed jailhouse informants.
The stated reason was that the withheld information pertained to "prosecutorial decisions".
Patricio Barriga, the president of Ecuador's Council on Regulation and Control of Communication and Information — which provides prosecutorial evidence to Supercom — vehemently denied that the law curtailed liberty of expression.
"There comes a time when a prosecutorial focus needs to be developed as information is gathered and facts are developed," said Lewis D. Schiliro, who ran the New York office of the F.B.I. from 1998 to 2000.
"Aaron's Law" would amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in the hopes of limiting the prosecutorial power against citizens who merely release information from certain types of databases.
The United Nations, Interpol and Ecowas are spending $50 million in four countries partly to build "transnational crime units," interagency bodies that will gather information, conduct investigations and turn over their findings to prosecutorial authorities.
But, pressed for a list of examples of government abuse and prosecutorial misconduct, Mr Donohue says that he is not at liberty to pass the information on.
In a blistering 514-page report made public on Thursday, the special investigator said he had uncovered evidence that would "prove beyond a reasonable doubt" that two members of the prosecutorial team in the 2008 trial, Joseph W. Bottini and James A. Goeke, had deliberately kept exculpatory information from Mr. Stevens's defense team.
Information gathered in these sessions would not be turned over to the prosecutorial team and used for intelligence purposes only, such as determining any linkages Tsarnaev and his brother may have had to international terrorist organizations or other operatives living abroad.
