AP: Kan. AG Worried About Abortion Case File

[Eugene]

Associated Press
Kan. AG Worried About Abortion Case File
By JOHN HANNA 01.08.07, 10:05 PM ET

Kansas' new attorney general said Monday he's concerned that patient records
his predecessor gathered in a failed attempt to prosecute a nationally known
abortion doctor may have been copied and are not secure.

Former Attorney General Phill Kline, who lost the November election, had
appointed a special prosecutor to handle the case against Dr. George Tiller,
one of the few doctors in the nation who perform late-term abortions.

Kline's successor, Paul Morrison, said he plans to fire the special prosecutor,
a Democrat who has protested outside Tiller's clinic in the past. But he said
Kline had already given the man partial records on 60 abortion clinic patients,
edited to avoid identifying them.

"I do have concerns about how many copies have been made of that material and
who's got possession of them," Morrison said moments after his swearing in.

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Full article: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/01/08/ap3311449.html

[rodeodance]

1. darn darn darn

[Hekate]

2. Kick this--5th R

:kick:

Everything I have to say on this subject I have said many times before. ...

Hekate

[xchrom]

3. kick

[Phredicles]

4. If these records prove not to have been secure, are there any grounds

on which Kline himself could be prosecuted? In my book, he tried to foment state-sponsored terrorism, but the question of course is what specific laws he may have broken.

[Megahurtz]

5. I would hope.

Trouble is, some of these Attorney Generals have some sort of Judical Immunity,
and of course if that's true that's a law that badly needs change.

Time to set a precident and hold them accountable for their actions.