Dershowitz on the "smoking gun" video

[Arthur Chesterfield]

--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
wrote:
>
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20011215/877925.html
> 
> 
> "[...]
> In assessing the legal implications of the tape, it
> is as important to
> focus on what is missing from the tape as what is
> present on it. There is
> nothing on the tape that reveals bin Laden possessed
> information only a
> person guilty of planning this horrible crime would
> possess. In other
> words, the truth of the incriminating statements
> made on the tape is not
> self-proving: It relies on believing bin Laden is
> telling the truth.
> 
> Contrast this tape with tapes that are sometimes
> introduced in
> organized-crime or drug cases that are self-proving.
> Such tapes contain
> information that is not in the public domain and
> could be known only by the
> criminal. Such information might include the calibre
> of bullets used, the
> location of transit points for drugs, the names of
> undisclosed associates,
> etc. The bin Laden tape, in contrast, includes only
> information known to
> everybody. For example, bin Laden's assertion that
> Mohammed Atta was the
> leader of the hijackers has been widely reported and
> cannot be
> independently confirmed.
> 
> [...]
> On a larger level, the tape will serve as an
> important public-relations
> weapon in the political, diplomatic and
> psychological war against terrorism
> in general and bin Laden in particular. The court of
> public opinion has no
> rules of admissibility for tapes or other types of
> information. And
> although the vast majority of reasonable viewers and
> listeners will see
> this tape for what it is -- an immoral man using
> religion to justify mass
> murder -- they must also remember bin Laden is
> almost certainly a liar and
> he may have had a corrupt motive to lie about at
> least some of his claims.
> 
> We're still waiting for the self-proving evidence
> that does not rely on
> believing bin Laden is telling the truth.  "


Yeah well you should read what Jeraldo Rivera says
about it. 

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