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"The L.A. Times's Tipster on Kozinski's Porn: Cyrus Sanai."

"The L.A. Times's Tipster on Kozinski's Porn: Cyrus Sanai." This post appears at "Patterico's Pontifications."

At 12:05 a.m. this morning, I received an email from Mr. Sanai that begins, "I'm the person who tipped off the LA Times about Judge Kozinski. This is all part of the ongoing misconduct proceedings against Judge Kozinski that grew out of 'Kozinski Strikes Back,' which you have kindly kept available for public viewing."

The email goes on to advance a technology-based argument, whose validity I am incapable of evaluating, that only Judge Kozinski had control of the portion of the internet domain on which the material in question appeared.

Mr. Sanai and Judge Kozinski have previously crossed swords in essays that remain freely available online exclusively via "How Appealing Extra" here and here.

Update: In a follow-up email that I received from Mr. Sanai at 12:44 a.m. this morning, he writes:

I discovered this information on Xmas Eve, 2007. * * * * I immediately downloaded so much material that his internet provider cut him off. When the site went back up, Judge Kozinski had removed some of the biggest video files. * * * * I pitched it to the Daily Journal, the Recorder, the LA Times and the WSJ through end of January 2008. I was interested in his site because of my renewed misconduct complaint against Judge Kozinski, which focused on, among other things, his placement of the transcript of Judge Thibodeau on alex.kozinski.com. Interestingly enough, your capture of that link is the only evidence that remains of this on the internet. So thank you! Terry Carter of the ABA Journal contacted me last month, and was actually working on this story when the LA Times decided to break it.

John Roemer wrote an article for the Daily Journal, which his editors killed. You find a trace of it in his piece on Kozinski in the California Lawyer.

The LA Times reporter I contacted, Henry Weinstein (who extensively covered the Manuel Real stuff) said he would get to it, then he took the buyout. I contacted Scott Glover, the reporter on the obscenity trial, last Sunday, June 8, 2008. He knew nothing about my prior contact with the LA Times; but that institution is in disarray because of the well-covered restructuring. Therefore, it would not be fair to say that the LA Times "held it". The institutional knowledge of my prior contact disappeared * * * *

The Recorder's executive editor, Scott Graham, is still mad at me for getting the original piece published, and would not run anything. However, they have taken on the very important material I passed on to them from Meachem six months ago. Their current article accurately summarizes Kozinski's slapdown by Rehnquist.

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It is correct to say that the Daily Journal, the Recorder, and the WSJ deliberately held this information from the public. By mid February, 2008 all three had the same CD of material that I gave to the LA Times last Monday.

I point out, also, that the LA Times found items that were uploaded after December, 2007. The naked guy cavorting with the donkey is something I do not have and I don't think was on the web site on December 24, 2007.

Mr. Sanai's email states that he will be interviewed live about this matter on the Los Angeles NBC affiliate's 11 p.m. pacific time newscast.

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).