Sitting in court — and reporting on what transpires there — is a curious and incomplete experience. Witnesses do not recount a complete narrative for the court that is then subject to further probing. Rather, the live exchanges are a detailed follow-up to written “exhibits.” So most of the questioning is driven by documents the witnesses are asked to review, only portions of which are shown on screens not even visible from the press gallery. The government has been posting many of their exhibits on their web site. The defense, to the best of our knowledge and searching, has not […]
