<HTML>In a message dated 11/24/02 12:51:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, mpollak@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">   Officials say the ability of intelligence agents and prosecutors to   interact more freely could prove critical in avoiding the confusion   and missteps that dogged the high-profile investigations of Wen Ho Lee   and Zacarias Moussaoui. </BLOCKQUOTE> Last I read the Moussaoui prosecution is such a mess and the demand to produce witnesses for cross examination or face dismissal of charges so critical that the government is thinking of sending it to a military tribunal to salvage anything of a case. How would the latest court ruling make any difference about that? <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> And this is our model?  And the great thing about this new decision is that it will make more of this possible? </BLOCKQUOTE> Not to go all Pollyanna on y'all but if they really NEEDED this decision in order to try everything they want, then SOMEONE somewhere has at least a TEENY iota of respect for the Rule or Law.... Not to say it will get much exercise now, but.... DoreneC</HTML>