True. But you can't say there was anything suspicious about the way the WC did it. They (the questioners) needed to know how an interview would go too so as to be prepared as to what questions to ask.
But you can't say there was anything suspicious about the way the WC did it.Really? They were supposed to be a fact finding mission. The facts are the facts, why would they need to be manipulated?
They (the questioners) needed to know how an interview would goIn a trial a lawyer will never ask a question he doesn't already know the answer to, but this was not a trial. There was no need to determine how an interview would go. The only reason they could have had for wanting to know in advance in which direction the testimony would go was so they could steer it away from any inconvenient facts that might come up.
so as to be prepared as to what questions to ask.And still they failed to ask crucial questions, asked extremely leading questions, interrupted or cut of witnesses in the middle of what they were saying and were sometimes badgering witness because they did not get the information they wanted.
Two examples of their manipulation;
1. Prior to their testimony, Arlen Specter talked to FBI agents Seibert & O'Neill, who were present at the autopsy. After the conversation the WC declined to call both men. If they were on a fact finding mission, why would they do that?
2. They took the testimony from Tomlinson, the man who found a bullet on a strecher at Parkland Hospital, before they introduced the bullet into evidence as CE399. As the bullet was not in evidence when Tomlinson testified, they never showed him CE399 or asked him to identify it. The reason is obvious; they couldn't risk that Tomlinson would deny that CE399 is the bullet he found.