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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I also think that Clinton[b] ruefully laughed [/b]when, in later describing this travesty of a case to an interviewer, she said that her client even passed a lie detector test which made her doubt the accuracy of such tests for the rest of her career[/quote]

Ruefully laughed? Have you listened to the tape.  No regret at all in her laugh--maybe a tad of embarrassment that she was so diabolical in her defense of a man that she was pretty sure had done a horrible thing.  [/quote]

Okay, I went back and listened to the tape again.  I can understand how someone who doesn't like her would interpret the laugh in another way.  But yeah, I heard rueful laughter -- a woman saying she would never trust polygraphs because her client passed one and she really thinks he did it.  Still had to defend him, but didn't believe him.

I can also understand an angry reaction of people who are not lawyers listening to this tape where a lawyer is talking about a case that affected the lives of actual people and they're not acknowledging their affect on these people's lives.  From the outside that seems terrible.  But as a lawyer, this is shoptalk.  I've worked on deals where companies have merged and people have lost their jobs, and the part that was interesting to me was the phantom pooper document reviewer who kept messing up the bathroom.  And that has allowed me to do really worthwhile work for immigrant victims of domestic violence.  As a lawyer you can't let yourself get caught up in emotions all the time or you just can't do your job.  And by the way, how exactly do you think decades and decades of male attorneys had been talking about the rape trials they had handled before Clinton handled this one case?  You put your emotions away or you got labeled by them as unreliable. I think people saying Clinton was wrong to defend this guy are dreadfully naive.

I'm truly sorry for this rape victim, but this doesn't make me like Hillary Clinton any less.  She certainly went on after this to do a lot of great and important work for women.  We are not two dimensional creatures, and being an attorney is goddamned hard.  If you think you can do it better then I invite you to give it a shot and see how it goes.[/quote]

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