Originally Posted by
eastport
That would be red-letter-law witness tampering.
Blocking a witness from traveling to a trial using no-fly rules, when the trial is about those very same rules, is also witness tampering. But it's difficult to do anything when it happened by bureaucratic indifference or (deliberate) incompetence. An individual taking specific action later won't have that protection.
The US Attorneys involved should know how serious of a crime this is, and how it negatively impacts their case. Unless they really believe that it falls under "executive privilege" and they have ten lawyers in court just as a courtesy. One has to wonder what happens if they just ignore any ruling.
The DOJ are not the party that does witness interference in such matters where the EB wants interference to supposedly help its DOJ while trying to shield its (non-DOJ EB) ops/policies/practices from more/complete/any disclosure/discussion/exposure. The FBI may be used but it's not even the FBI that runs the interference. I'm going to leave it at that, after mentioning that this situation is probably one more of too many bumbling cooks in government kitchens than malicious interference -- but on that I could well be wrong when it comes to this matter.
Last edited by GUWonder; Dec 6, 2013 at 3:11 pm