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1 THE COURT: The extrapolation argument I think
2 is a bit tenuous.
3 (Court confers with law clerk.)
4 MS. LUYMES: May I add one other thing, your
5 Honor?
6 THE COURT: Yes.
7 MS. LUYMES: Thinking back to what the
8 plaintiff has identified at the outset of his argument,
9 about the color of the car and what the color of the car
10 was, it has no bearing whatsoever on the glasses. In
11 fact, the report says what it says. He wants to see the
12 glasses, but it has nothing to do with anything that has
13 to do with any wrongdoing by the Office of the
14 Independent Counsel with regard to the performance --
15 you know, and I'm using the Court's analysis of the
16 public interest here -- how the Office of the
17 Independent Counsel performed its duties.
18 In the defendant's reply in support of its
19 motion for summary judgment, in footnote 7 we bring to
20 the Court's attention that in Schiffer v. FBI, a Ninth
21 Circuit case, which this Court has cited in your
22 preliminary ruling in other places, the Ninth Circuit
23 indicates that in that case, Schiffer's arguments failed
24 because there's no evidence suggesting that the FBI
25 engaged in wrongdoing; the FBI being the agency involved