Judge rejects Senator Stevens motions.

 Poor Uncle Teddy! No, not that Uncle Teddy, I am speaking about Ted Stevens, the crook from Alaska.  His lawyers went to court yesterday to have his charges thrown out and Judge Sullivan totally rejected it.

Just to make sure that his case doesn’t wrap up before ’his re-election’ in November the crooked Senator is now requesting the following:

• Secret grand jury transcripts, including testimony from a Stevens aide called before the panel, to find out whether the Justice Department used information that may be privileged under the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause.
• Reports from FBI agents who listened in on 105 of the senator’s telephone calls — a fraction of the more than 2,800 calls agents monitored as part of their Alaska corruption probe.
• Medical records to show whether former VECO Chairman Bill Allen, whose company allegedly provided more than $250,000 in “things of value to Stevens,” has suffered from a head injury or any other “cognitive impairments” that might affect his testimony.
• Detailed information on all potential government witnesses: their criminal histories, plea deals and immunity agreements, as well as any information the Justice Department may have about their abuse of drugs or alcohol.
• The photographs of Stevens’ Girdwood, Alaska, home taken by FBI agents during a search in July 2007. Stevens’ lawyers are suggesting that photos the government wants to introduce into evidence were taken with “wide angle lenses or other optics that distorted the perspective in the photos” to make some of the rooms in the house look larger than they really are.

See you in court on the September 24^th.  Yeah, I will be there with my camera, don’t forget to smile!