And still no correction to the assertion that the files were sealed from the time the divorce was finalized.
Jeff Berkowitz doesn’t appear to understand the issue here. The records were sealed one year after the divorce was finalized.
If you want a source on that, try the Illinois Leader.
What’s amusing about this is that Jack! apparently lied to Stanek from her comments on the Illinois Leader message boards.
Sorry, but I’m batting a thousand. McCulloch, well we don’t know exactly what he is batting. If you read his initial statement he said he got them from an associate of Jack!’s who copied them before the records were sealed. I’m unclear why Dan Proft’s claims limit how others might have viewed or gotten the files so I’m not sure why that is relevant. I haven’t heard Beyond the Beltway and it isn’t archived so I can say what McCulloch has said so far is far more accurate than what Jack! or Proft or Stanek have been claiming. Was everything perfectly accurate? Probably not, but I as I mentioned before he was working from memory.
Remember that also there were six paragraphs stricken at the last minute by the judge because they were particularly graphic.
I would suggest that if Ryan’s supporters are truly concerned about his kid and his reaction, they drop this silly blaming of others for Jack!’s screw-up before the mysterious file appears and does “more damage”.
UPDATE: If there is any question that something else is out there,
Read Chuck Goudie.
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In addition to what you just said, LLDM, it is probably a good time to point out that “investigative reporting” has a down side as well. In the rush to get the scoop on a new story, or get the most “in depth” information, hyperbole gets the headlines, and accuracy is definitlely in the grey area…especially during the sweeps.
Not everyone is a fan of reporter Chuck Goudie…here a few excerpts from the pages of bloggers and such..
Chuck Goudie of Channel 7 Eyewitness News (the Chicago ABC affiliate) was tracking the killer Andrew Cunanan a few years ago, and located the flophouse room the guy had been renting. Instead of calling the police, he started rifling through things, drawers and such, possibly disturbing evidence. His latest bit of sweeps-related stupidity came in May 2001, when he went to Las Vegas to cover the story of an 11-year-old Indiana girl who ran away with her 28-year-old school principal. After the pair had been found, Goudie weaseled his way into the motel room the pair had last rented. The police had gone over it and the motel had cleaned it. But Goudie found a condom wrapper in the garbage can, and almost went nuts on the air, proclaiming loudly on camera that somehow the police had missed this “key evidence” while sweeping the premises. It turns out the pair had never even entered the room. It also turns out that the principal had in fact been having relations with the girl, and Goudie made sure to turn up the volume on the sleazier side of the story. Also, while the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers finally stopped printing the girl’s name and picture (having done so originally only to possibly help in locating her) in order to avoid any further invasions of privacy, Goudie’s station and others continued plastering the poor girl’s face on the screen.
Whiz Bang’s website of Correct Opinions
And then there are the lawsuits for libel due to disagreement of the facts Goudie has reported…
Pet Crematory Lawsuit
And finally there is the whole issue of deliberate leaks, and who gets them and how accurate they are…
At one point, Channel 7?s Chuck Goudie appeared to put out inaccurate information he had gathered regarding the investigation of Lead 80. Zuley, who knew Goudie from contact in Chicago, offered to call Goudie to straighten out the facts. He was roundly told to keep out of it.
From the beginning, key members of the command had chosen favorites among the press corps to leak information to. Jay Levine was consistently stroked by the Task Force and was also liked by Bratcher?they had other favorites too. Goudie was not one of the chosen. Goudie had taken a very hard line toward the Task Force and was therefore widely detested by the command. One witness close to the Task Force told us, ?they hated Goudie and posted his picture up on the wall next to the mug shots of wanted criminals.?
Zuley?s attempts to provide Goudie with correct information were heavily criticized by management members of the Task Force, and Chief Bratcher maintains that Zuley was in fact fired from the Task Force for leaking to the press. Information on lead 80 did not reach the media, however, until September of 1993. Zuley had left the Task Force in February of that year.
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