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The public has a right to know whether the government is doing what it's supposed to in cases like this, ... If the government has the power to squelch all that information under the guise of attorney-client privilege, that doesn't instill confidence. It says, 'Don't file the compliant, it can be covered up.'

We continue to believe that the attorney client privilege should protect conversations between government officials and government attorneys. The American people benefit from decisions made by government officials, including the President, on the basis of full and frank information and discussion,

The attorney-client privilege is the bedrock principle of our legal system, ... The confidential nature of the attorney-client relationship is no less important in government than in every other context where it exists.

The Supreme Court acted appropriately today rejecting Mr. Starr's attempt to bypass the traditional appeals process on the subject of attorney-client privilege, ... Contrary to Mr. Starr's claims, the governmental attorney-client privilege is not a 'new' privilege. It is well established that confidentiality is the cornerstone of all attorney-client communications.

The case raises important issues that affect the public's right to know and the government's ability to use the attorney-client privilege as a shield to deny access to documents that reflect its operations at the highest levels.

Access to public information is a check on the government's power. An informed citizenry is one of the cornerstones, of our democracy. Without information about what our government is doing, we can't make assessments about the decisions our government is making.

We are confident that after careful consideration of these issues that this court, and any other court, would say that there is no basis for the extraordinary breach of the attorney-client privilege by allowing the government to call Mr. Carter to produce documents or to be a witness against his client.

Charles Ogletree

One wants to be sure that terrorism is not used as a pretext for withholding information that the public needs to assess government policy and performance, ... It looks to me like the government is overreaching in some cases.

Steven Aftergood

After we did some initial investigation here, we were able to file a civil lawsuit and through the issuance of subpoenas learn quite a bit about who was responsible, and then transmitted all of this information to the FBI for pursuit and follow-through. I think that the guilty plea is evidence of the strength of the government's case against Mr. Harris and demonstrates the government's commitment to aggressively pursue these cases.

The government's inability to set up an electronic case-file system that works doesn't inspire confidence that [it] can collect and aggregate information about Americans that's accurate, reliable, and timely.

Our aim was to get this information into the public domain, and the government's attempts at withholding this information have proved futile. This is a victory for us because information to which the public is entitled has been released into the public domain. The government has fought this tooth and nail.

I do think we're going to have to see more information ? not attorney-client privilege type information, but more information of the work product that she was involved with at the White House that was not of a legal nature but that's of a policy nature, ... Fox News Sunday.

Obviously, there's an attorney-client privilege, and clients would not want their confidential information blowing through Downtown.

Michael Williams

Every attorney is mandated by law and by ethics to maintain the confidences and secrets in every file until the file is turned over to a successor attorney. Every attorney has the obligation to ensure that the attorney that's taking over the file does not have a conflict of interest relating to that file.

Government officials and government action are not for sale. As a hacker, Pex Tufvesson is in a class of his own. The Justice Department will aggressively investigate and prosecute these types of cases, which have a devastating impact on the public's trust of government.

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