HOUSE OVERSIGHT 030937 Grant_Smith070964AeMa [Content. htm Walton's blanket defense of the Commission has made the Feds conclude he is a fool or co-conspirator. The FBI just needs the evidence and not much of it. To quote the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan: "any prosecutor worth his salt could indict a ham sandwich." This means all evidence, regardless of its ambiguous nature, will be interpreted to support their assumption of wrongdoing. They will be using software to go through millions of E-mail messages to look for key words. As Buddy has quoted me: "The 'F in E-mail stands for evidence."" So imagine the following scenario. Six months from now they uncover an E-mail from the County Manager to Walton stating that Commissioner X wants to know if the bid of company Y for new busses was correctly filled out. He replies that it was. Months later he has totally forgotten about the innocuous E-mail. Based on the merits, he happens to rank Y's bid number one. You can bet as sure as J. Edgar Hoover wore pink poodle skirts, the FBI will conclude this was code from Commissioner X to Walton to vote for Y. Armed with the E-mail you can be damn sure that the G-Men will be back threatening him with everything including a stint in Gitmo. All of this might have been avoided if he had followed my three basic rules. Memorize them. 1. Do not talk to the FBI without a lawyer. 2. Do not talk to the FBI without a lawyer. 3. Do not talk to the FBI without a law Grant J. Smith, Esq. Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler tile:///q/Documents%20and%20Settings/Trial/Desktop/E...uction/eDocs/eMail/Grant Smith070964^eMailContent.htm (4 of 5) [11/6/2010 10:16:49 PM] 14513