From: Monte Davis 

It is an interesting column. If indeed the warrant and affidavit were
flawed, I hope to the courts will follow that up just as aggressively
-- no more and no less -- as they would in any other case. I don't
have the texts, and if I did I am not competent to assess their wording, or
whether their application was outside the normal range of "wiggle
room."

Chavez writes: "The Justice Department must have known it was on shaky
grounds to obtain a search warrant. Why else would department lawyers have
waited to obtain their warrant until after 7 o'clock on the evening of Good
Friday, after most judges had gone home for the holidays --- including the
federal district judge most familiar with the case?"

Sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a non-issue. Once the decision
to seize the boy was made (and I'm not taking any posiiton on that decision
at the moment), it was absolutely right to conduct every preparation as
quickly and quietly as possible. Given the armies of reporters and lawyers
in Miami, and the history of the vigil around the house, there was every
reason to fear that (1) word might leak out, and (2) if it did, there would
be a much larger, much more worked-up crowd, and much more potential for
violence. I would be disturbed if the DoJ had *not* proceeded that way.

My point, though, was that Bill asserted repeatedly that there was no
warrant -- because that fit what he wants to believe about Clinton, Reno,
Big Government, and Jack-Booted Etc. Etc. Etc. -- and he was wrong. He now
has the remarkable gall to twit Bill Lucy repeatedly about his flawed
knowledge and understanding of the warrant.

I've made some howlers online in my time, but I don't think I've ever
posted "red is green" four times in 24 hours and then, a week
later, told someone else he was color-blind...

-Monte

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