Romero_Trial_Transcript_8_25_04_53_2

8-25-04 Trial Transcript
2 9:00 a.m.
3 THE COURT: Good morning. We are going to go back on
4 the record in Doe versus Saravia.
5 Mr. Van Aelstyn, you may proceed.
6 MR. Van AELSTYN: Thank you, your Honor. We would
7 like to continue with the videotaped deposition testimony of
8 Ambassador Robert White.
9 THE COURT: Yes, you may.
10 AMBASSADOR ROBERT WHITE,
11 called as a witness on behalf of the Plaintiff by way of
12 videotaped deposition presented testimony to the Court.)
13 (Discussion was had off the record regarding
14 coordinating the deposition exhibits with the default hearing
15 exhibits.)
16 MR. Van AELSTYN: Your Honor, that concludes the
17 videotaped testimony of Ambassador Robert White.
18 Based upon his testimony, I would like to move into
19 evidence several of the documents that he discussed and
20 identified during his videotaped deposition.
21 I suggest addressing them in different groupings, as
22 they were similar kinds of documents that he authenticated and
23 identified.
24 The first -- there are two groups. The first are
25 those declassified State Department documents that he
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1 identified. And they are Trial Exhibit Number 119, which was
2 the working group memo that he spoke about before he went to
3 El Salvador as Ambassador. And then several cables from El
4 Salvador when he was U.S. Ambassador there, and they are Trial
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