When two reporters are threatened with jail for refusing to testify, based on a record that is largely nonpublic, there indeed are serious First Amendment and due process issues raised by the White House leak grand jury investigation ("A Victory for Press Freedom," editorial, Feb. 26).
A Panasonic exec claimed that the California commission, at a hearing last week, selected people to testify based on their pre-existing support of any regulation, and not a totally random person, as was required.
"Although I would like more than you know the answers to the questions that you and your colleagues have about WorldCom, I have been instructed by my counsel not to testify based on my Fifth Amendment constitutional rights," Ebbers told the committee.
In lieu of direct evidence, the affidavit quotes "Karen" as testifying that, based on her two years of undercover work, "I know… that there are multiple members of the FARC who do not publicly acknowledge their FARC membership and who are members of various unions".
But at his trial, investigators testified that based on the burn patterns in the house, the fire had been arson.
He testified that based on Mr. Guzman's threat to get a gun, he believed the men were planning a drive-by shooting in front of the club.
Second, and perhaps more tellingly, Issa may have wanted to prevent Lerner from testifying since, based on the written testimony she provided ahead of the hearing, she was planning to say the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach had done nothing inappropriate, which contradicted Issa's claims leading up to the hearing.
It showed that his blood-alcohol content was 0.16percentt, and a prosecution witness, a toxicologist, testified last week that based on his extrapolation, Mr. Gray's blood-alcohol content would have been 0.23percentt when the accident occurred, more than twice the legal limit and the equivalent of 18 beers.
Robert Manzo, an executive with the Capstone Advisory Group who is advising Chrysler, testified Tuesday that based on an analysis he conducted in January, updated with the carmaker's current cash levels, the company could fetch as little as nothing if it were liquidated today.
Effectiveness of the proposed method is testified by experiments based on measured MFL signals.
The supreme quality of their supple, sensitive, elegant arts may be the scariest thing about them, because it testifies that a civilization based on slaughter steadied and inspired human genius.
