Calif. Attorney General Brown Will Face Independent Investigation for Secretly Recorded Conversations
by PubliusA letter from California Attorney General Jerry Brown has surfaced that deals a tremendous blow to sham internal investigations everywhere. Brown, also a California gubernatorial candidate, has requested the Alameda County district attorney look into secret tapings his office conducted with five different news reporters on six different occasions. California is what’s known as a “two-party state,” that is, it is illegal to record someone without their consent. Brown’s former communication director recorded the conversations and has since resigned; still the Attorney General’s office has asserted secretly recording news reporters is legal if it is for public use.
Brown’s office announced an internal investigation into the matter and was roundly condemned by the right for undertaking a case in which it has a vested interest.
Brown’s position on the recordings strikes the Big Government editorial panel as arrogant. First, the Attorney General is in the process of investigating the ACORN filmmakers for violating laws about secret tape-recordings while conducting similar recordings himself… repeatedly. Second, Brown conducted an internal investigation on himself (much like John Podesta of Media Matters and Andy Stern of the SEIU conducting the internal investigation of ACORN) for nearly three weeks before he solicited a third party. And judging by the wording in the attached letter, Brown seems none too happy to pass that duty elsewhere.
Much like the internal investigations movement, Brown might be hurting right now. Stay tuned…
A complete article on the controversy here. Read the letter below:
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One must remember the cardinal rule of the Left here which is when you're from the Left, it's different. As a Leftist Democrat, you're supposed to be a hypocrite.
And a scumbag-And "Above the law".
Oh sure…a left buddy investigating another left buddy! The jury is already in…NOT GUILTY! What a sham!
How is California paying for this crap. I thought they were beyond broke.
A joke. One leftist investigating another. Like the USSR.
http://noliberalspin.blogtownhall.com/2009/11/17/...
Leftist violence in Florida. MAN UP AMERICA!
California is a comedy of errors. From Arnold, right down to Moonbeam. The Circus Maximus continues…….
Jerry is a scumbag leftist, so he is not judged by the same rules the rest of us are! He was a joke in the 60's and he is a bigger joke now.
Moonbeam Brown is the candidate of choice for faux-Conservative Michael Weiner…aka Savage. Perhaps Weiner can fund Moonbeam's defense fund too?
Round up the usual suspects!
Casablanca 1942:
[Rick and Renault discussing Victor Laszlo's chances of escaping Casablanca]
Captain Renault: This is the end of the chase.
Rick: Twenty thousand francs says it isn't.
Captain Renault: Is that a serious offer?
Rick: I just paid out twenty. I'd like to get it back.
Captain Renault: Make it ten. I'm only a poor corrupt official.
Too bad Jerry Brown is such an openly corrupt and inept hack…Capt Renault had style, Jerry Brown is just a cheap whore.
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"On the record" conversations with reporters are assumed to be recorded so good luck getting any traction with this one. In fact, the reporters all stated that they were recording the conversations because these conversations with Gerber were established as "on the record" and therefore, assumed to be recorded especially with a Communications Director. Hello? The only thing unusual about it is usually it's the reporter doing the recording. Unusual but not illegal according to the interpretation of California's two-party law.
Epic fail is epic!
"One must remember the cardinal rule of the Left here which is when you're from the Left, it's different" — Well that explains Blackwater and all these others:
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/
Billions of tax payer dollars doesn't matter unless you can be tied to ACORN and satisfy the ACORN Derangement Syndrome of America's weakest minded legal scholars.
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