Over 1.6 million pieces of evidence that not even Merchant was allowed to look at. There's something called the Classified Information Procedures act, which says, well, if discovery is classified, not even the defendant can get it. So it's not a real trial. No, it was a total show trial. And bizarrely, again, they trot out all this dubious evidence, but on the last day, Merchant's attorney allows him to testify. (1:08:54–1:08:56)
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