Will Trump's plan on business conflicts be enough?

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In the two months since the election, Trump has taken only limited steps toward disentangling himself from the business. He shuttered his foundation and pledged that the Trump Organization would make «no new deals» during his term.
But he has given no indication that he will sell his stake in the company. Experts in government ethics say that virtually guarantees a conflict and could allow Trump and his family to profit from the decisions he makes on behalf of the federal government.
Trump owns or has a position in at least 564 businesses and partnerships that have done business in at least 25 foreign countries, according to a CNN analysis.
The company took in $9.5 billion in revenue last year, according to one estimate. By comparison, the steps he has taken to avoid potential conflicts are small.
A Trump Organization attorney has told CNN that the company ended overseas deals in Azerbaijan and Brazil as a «housecleaning measure» and isn’t moving forward on projects in India.
The company also resolved a battle with workers at a hotel in Las Vegas , and agreed to allow a union organizing vote at a Trump hotel in Washington. Trump will oversee the National Labor Relations Board as president.
And Trump recently said he would dissolve the Trump Foundation «to avoid even the appearance of any conflict» with his presidency.
A litany of controversies still loom over Trump’s businesses, even before he takes office on Jan. 20.
House Democrats have seized in particular on the luxury Trump hotel in Washington, three blocks from the White House, as an opportunity for foreign governments to curry favor with the new president by booking rooms and holding events there.
Trump’s ownership stake in the property, which he leased from the federal government in 2013, also appears to be a contract violation by itself. The paperwork says no elected official can be party to the lease. And in any case, Trump, the tenant, will oversee the General Services Administration, the landlord.
Trump’s international business partnerships have also been heavily scrutinized. He praised one of his billionaire business partners from Dubai at a New Year’s Eve celebration event at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Related: Trump Inc. and conflicts: What you need to know
The president isn’t restricted by federal conflict of interest rules that prohibit most executive branch officials from holding assets that interfere with their government jobs.
But numerous experts have raised concerns about whether Trump could act as president without considering how his official decisions would affect his personal bank account.
And the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause prohibits the president from accepting payments from a foreign government. Some ethics experts have said Trump will be in violation the moment he takes office because of the hotel alone.
Trump’s two adult sons will most likely have some role managing the Trump Organization , though experts on both ends of the political spectrum say that’s not enough.
Related: What Trump can learn from Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state pick
Their solution is for Trump to hand his business over to an independent money manager who has no ties to his family, and who can sell the assets and reinvest the proceeds. There is no indication he will do that.
It’s not even clear how much information Trump will divulge at the press conference, scheduled for Wednesday.
He first scheduled it for Dec. 15, but the transition team postponed it. Transition sources told CNN the postponement was in part because of the complexities Trump’s lawyers face as they try to resolve potential conflicts.
Sean Spicer, Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, told reporters last week that while Trump will «obviously» talk about the business, he will not «limit the discussion. » Trump tweeted last week that he would have a «general» press event.
—CNNMoney’s Cristina Alesci and Jon Sarlin and CNN’s Jeremy Diamond, Drew Griffin and Phil Mattingly contributed to this story.

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JACKIE Movie Review | Current Movie Review and Analysis

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In JACKIE, Natalie Portman ’s Jackie Kennedy consciously controls history’s memory of JFK’s assassination and presidency through her calculated interview with a reporter played by Billy Crudup. The movie also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig and John Hurt.
There’s a line in JACKIE that stuck with me. It’s when Jackie says “for royalty you need tradition and for tradition you need time”. It perfectly encapsulated the movie and Jackie Kennedy’s ultimate goals for her family. In the midst of the horror of JFK’s assassination and Jackie Kennedy’s own combination of sadness and guilt, she wants her husband—and by extension herself—not to fade into oblivion.
The movie balances showing both sides of the formidable Jackie Kennedy, who is seemingly in control, with the inner turmoil she faces as she struggles to keep herself afloat. The cinematography reflects that struggle through the use of a shaky, hand-held camera during specific scenes. It also felt like Jackie was an outside observer of her own life; she was present physically but still apart.
The use of light also reflects Jackie’s inner turmoil. When she greets the unnamed reporter at her home, she opens her door and sees bright light. In fact, the light is so blown out that it offers a sense of heightened realism, as though Jackie’s looking into the light but cannot get there yet herself. I also interpret it as an unforgiving light, representing how she feels about herself at the time. These interpretations are reinforced during the movie multiple times. For instance, during a flashback when someone tells Jackie that she has her whole life still ahead, she remarks that it’s a cruel comment. As bright as her life might seem having been First Lady or looking back knowing about her subsequent marriage to Aristotle Onassis, at this point she is a young mother who has lost two children, she’s lost a husband, she has no home of her own and fears she will have to start selling off furniture just to feed her children. Her desire to build a legacy for JFK is means for securing a future for herself as well, an inclination that is hard for her to even admit.
Jackie’s internal struggles are also literally reflected back to her during specific scenes with mirrors, which represent multiple facets of a person and personality in traditional film analysis. For more about these scenes and other themes in JACKIE, take a look below:
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‘Tom of Finland’ Opens Goteborg Film Festival

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Dome Karukoski’s “Tom of Finland” is set to open the 40th edition of Goteborg Film Festival.
Set for a theatrical rollout in Feburary, “Tom of Finland” is a biopic about groundbreaking Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen, a pioneering figure in late 20th-century gay culture. Pekka Strang (“Colorado Avenue”) plays Laaksonen, who succeeded in overcoming oppression and homophobia through art.
“It’s a beautiful, intelligent and deeply moving portrayal of a fascinating life and a unique artistry,’ said the festival’s artistic director Jonas Holmberg. “‘Tom of Finland’ is an artistically powerful film possessing great power to attract international attention, which makes it the perfect opening film for the Göteborg Film Festival.”
Karukoski, whose previous film “Heart of a Lion” addressed racism through the tale of a Finnish Neo-Nazi character, said “Heart of Lion” started out as story about an artist and became “a story about freedom of expression, about our society.” says.
London-based sales company Protagonist represents the film in international markets. Nordic outfit Helsinki Filmi produced.
The 40th edition of Goteborg Film Festival will take place Jan.27 to Feb.6.

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Dogs raised for meat head to new homes in U. S. Contact WND

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WONJU, South Korea (Reuters) – “You’re OK, you’re OK,” Lola Webber, a campaign manager with the Humane Society International (HSI), whispers to a lab-mix puppy, cradling her in a jacket as dozens of dogs bark in nearby cages.
The puppy is moved from a rusty cage on a dog-meat farm in South Korea to a plastic crate, given the name Demi, and placed in a truck where she begins the long journey to a shelter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to be put up for adoption.
“As soon as they’re ready for adoption, we find that there are line-ups of people – literally people would line up at shelters – in the U. S. to adopt these dogs because people are so engaged by their sad and compelling stories,” said Andrew Plumbly, another campaign manager for the HSI.

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Samsung smartwatches can now be used with iPhones

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Samsung’s Gear S. (Odd Andersen, AFP)
Johannesburg — iPhone users will now be able to use a Samsung Gear device with their Apple smartphone, after the South Korean company released an app in iTunes to pair the devices.
The Samsung Gear app will connect Gear S, Gear S2, Gear Fit 2 health and fitness tracker and Gear S3 smartwatches to an iPhone.
Before the launch of the app, the Gear devices were compatible only with other Android devices.
The app will manage and monitor the Samsung Gear smartwatch and applications installed through Gear appstore.
Through the Samsung Gear app, users will be able to connect to and disconnect from a mobile device and find the Gear device through the smartphone.
The smartwatch will be paired via an established Bluetooth connection with an iPhone, and will also push notifications from apps and other notifications from the smartphone.
Users will also be able to download Samsung’s S Health app which collates data from the smartwatch to the iPhone.
While Apple has released numerous variants of the Apple Watch and Apple Watch Series 2 fairly recently, Samsung launched its first smart wearable – the Galaxy Gear — in 2013.
The device featured 4 GB of storage and a 1.9 megapixel camera in the strap, and allowed users to answer calls through the watch.
Samsung has since adapted the technology in its first smartwatches and fitness bands into a newer device that is more reminiscent of a traditional watch, in the form of devices like the Gear S3.
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Report: U. S. missile interceptors not completely reliable to deter North Korea

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UPI) — The United States’ ground-based interceptors, capable of shooting nuclear-tipped missiles, are not yet completely reliable, according to the Pentagon.
The Pentagon assessment is identical to the report it issued in 2016, an indication very little has changed in terms of results. It also is at slight odds with a recent statement from the U. S. State Department that the United States is on a «good trajectory» to defend against North Korea ballistic missile threats.
The $36 billion system, developed to deter incoming strikes from countries like North Korea, has shown a «limited capability to defend the U. S. homeland from small numbers of simple» intercontinental ballistic missiles, Bloomberg reported Monday.
But Vice Adm. James Syring, who directs the Missile Defense Agency, said Monday he has «high confidence» in the network of radar, communications and missiles based in Alaska and California.
The Pentagon plans to intercept a dummy missile between April and June 2017, the first test of its kind since June 2014.
If the test is successful, the results may support a tweeted pledge from President-elect Donald Trump that he could stop a North Korea provocation.
Last week Trump tweeted , «North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the U. S. It won’t happen! »
The planned test will aim to take down an incoming target that will for the first proximate the speed, trajectory and closing velocity of an actual ICBM, according to Syring.
The ground-based interceptors are located at Fort Greely in Alaska and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Who is funding North Korea's nuclear plan?

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Who is funding North Korea’s nuclear plan? 10 January 2017, 11:04
David Whitten is a great lawyer who represented me in a tough case 15 years ago. He pulled off a miracle in negotiations. I didn’t have the cash to make the miracle happen. On a personal level, I tell David that he should get the Academy Award for being the world’s best dad. He and his dear wife raised their own kids and have adopted many more children, including those with special needs. I can’t say enough nice things about David.
David took strong exception to my prediction that Donald Trump would use nuclear weapons in North Korea. He claims that the Chinese would retaliate and it would cause World War III. I have evidence that refutes this.
A few days ago, I talked about North Korea. I raised a simple common sense question that no one has stepped up to answer yet. The question is as follows:
“Iran has tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues. Yet they have not been able to build a nuclear warhead. North Korea is dead broke and cannot even feed their population. Yet they have been able to develop multiple nuclear warheads, Some pretty-advanced delivery systems, etc. Who is putting up the money to make this happen?”
When it comes to providing the financing, four suspects come to light as follows:
China: Elena suspects them. I do not. Whether you like Henry Kissinger or not, he is truly the one Western man who understands China. He wrote a book about China that is long and involved. Please find the time to read it. After reading this book I think that the Chinese would be much too cautious and responsible ever to do such a thing.
Pakistan: One hears all sorts of stories about radical Muslims and the fear or Pakistani nuclear technology and weapons being sold to terrorists. I have personal experience dealing with very legitimate large private companies in Pakistan. They are true professionals. They run excellent companies that are 100% honest. Prudent and careful investments there will yield to god returns. I have seen interviews with senior officials at the US Embassy to Pakistan. They uniformly praise the Pakistan military and the security that it maintains over nuclear weapons. I reject them as a suspect.
Iranian Hard Liners: The Revolutionary Guards similar groups might be financing North Korean nuclear weapons programs. Of course, the questions comes to mind: “If they have put up the money why haven’t they received a nuclear war head?”
Wealthy Jihadist financing ISIS and other terrorist groups. These are my prime suspects. What do they want for the big investment? The answer is straight forward. They want to create a department store (ie: Macy’s Dillard’s, etc) for nuclear warheads. North Korea will be the “go to” place for terrorists to purchase nuclear warheads and radiological materials for “dirty bombs.”
The military and intelligence authorities in several countries know about this danger. Stratfor is the best civilian intelligence agency on planet earth. They already have published a creditable war plan using very-advanced conventional weapons to destroy North Korea’s nuclear capability:
https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/what-us-would-use-strike-north-korea
Stratfor has also looked at how the North Koreans would retaliate and the consequences of such a military strike:
https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/how-north-korea-would-retaliate
https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/cost-intervention
Nowhere in this analysis do the Stratfor people see any probability of a Chinese military response to such an attack.
Now we add Donald Trump into the equation. During his campaign for president he repeated presented the question: “Why can’t I use nuclear weapons?” All other US presidents in recent history consider a nuclear first-strike of any kind taboo. Richard M. Nixon was the one exception. He wanted to employ nuclear weapons against North Vietnam and North Korea. Henry Kissinger blocked all these attempts to use nuclear weapons. Donald Trump has a national security advisor, General Flynn, just like him — short tempered and vindictive.
Kim Jun Un is going to underestimate Trump. He will challenge Trump and provoke him to action. Trump will have a look at the war plan in place to destroy North Korea’s nuclear capabilities. Trump will quickly come to the conclusion that such an attack would leave Kim Jun Un in place with many military capabilities. Trump and General Flynn will choose tactical nuclear weapons to destroy North Korea’s military and affect a regime change there. A surprise nuclear attack will follow.
Will China retaliate with nuclear weapons? I think not. China has strict rules of engagement for the use of nuclear weapons. To make a long story short, China will only use nuclear weapons if a nuclear weapon is detonated above or on Chinese territory. China does not consider North Korea Chinese territory.
What are the consequences of such a nuclear strike? Financial markets will tumble and investors will suffer short-term losses. You will have a huge refugee problem like we have in Syria now. China and South Korea will be “stuck with the bill for this mess.” Trump will pay nothing. South Korea will suffer serious damage as the remnants of the North Korean military machine attack Seoul. Again, Donald Trump will pay nothing to repair these damages.
There will be huge and violent protests worldwide. Trump will be compared to Adolf Hitler. A precedent will also be set where any country with nuclear weapons can make a first strike if tensions arise.
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Korean Minister Apologizes for Blacklisting Artists, Denies Involvement

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South Korean Culture Minister, Cho Yoon-sun has admitted the existence of a government-operated blacklist of over 9,000 local artists. Cho made the apology statement during Monday’s parliamentary probe of the current political scandal that led to South Korean President Park Geun-hye ’s impeachment last month.
“As the minister in charge of cultural policies, I sincerely apologize that I gave pain to artists and failed to unveil whether the list existed through a thorough investigation,” she said.
Cho is one of the closest aides to the impeached Park, and the blacklist is believed to have been compiled when Cho served as head of the State Affairs Committee.
“As far as I understand, there exists a blacklist created to classify specific artists and to exclude them from receiving government support funds,” said Cho. “But since I do not know anything about how the document was created or distributed, nor have I ever seen the document, there is nothing that I can say about it.”
On Sunday (Jan 8), the independent counsel team confirmed the list that contains the names of some 9,000 artists exists and that Cho and Kim Ki-choon, a former presidential chief of staff, were involved in creating it.
The backlist reportedly included the country’s top filmmakers Park Chan-wook (“The Handmaiden”), Bong Joon-ho (“Snowpiercer”) and actor Song Kang-ho (“The Age of Shadows”). It is understood that such artists have been blacklisted as they may have offended the Park regime by protesting against the government’s handling of the Sewol ferry sinking, supporting the opposition Minjoo Party’s Moon Jae-in in the presidential bid in 2012, or by supporting Park Won-soon for Seoul Mayor in 2014.
“I will closely cooperate with the special prosecutor. I believe the truth (about the blacklist) will soon be unveiled,” said Cho. She refused to provide further detail about the blacklist as she has been already charged with perjury.

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The Adventure of Daniel Hannan and the Princes in the Tower Louise Casey says integration "isn't a two-way street" — but is her definition any better?

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Since Daniel Hannan, a formerly obscure MEP, has emerged as the anointed intellectual of the Brexit elite, The Staggers is charting his ascendancy…
Daniel Hannan, as I’ve noted in the past, has an awkward habit of deleting his tweets. Often, by a strange coincidence, it’s the more embarrassing proclamations that vanish into the ether – no explanation, no, “Apologies, friends, I buggered that up didn’t I?” The tweet simply vanishes as if it had never been tweeted.
I’ve taken, then, to screenshot-ing some of the best morsels, just in case they’re not there the next time I look. Here’s one now:
Funny thing about that tweet is that Danny Boy has not, at time of writing, deleted it. Despite the fact he was tricked into embarrassing himself by a mean-spirited Remoaner, it’s still sitting there on the internet looking for all the world like its author is not crippled with embarrassment at the fact he could have been such a dunderhead as to write it. Two things are wrong with it, one relatively small, the other so huge as to be all encompassing.
The small one lies in the choice of monarchs. Not all of them are unreasonable: Henry VIII famously broke with the Catholic Church in his search for a divorce, an heir, and a quick bonk with Anne Boleyn. Since that meant an end to the period in which the English crown was answerable to a higher authority in the form of the Pope, we’ve already been treated to umpteen “Britain’s first Brexit” articles, and they’re not soon likely to stop – all this, despite the fact the big man liked to go around telling people he was also the King of France.
Similarly England spent much of the reign of his daughter trying to avoid being swallowed by the Spanish Empire, so it’s probably fair to suggest that Elizabeth I wasn’t a big fan of European integration either. George V, though, was closely related to – indeed, shared a face with – half the other head of states in Europe during his time on the planet, so what he’s doing there is anybody’s guess.
The truly vexing inclusion, though, is Edward V. Is Daniel Hannan really saying that a boy king who reigned for 79 days and was murdered by a wicked uncle at the age of 12 had serious concerns about the European project? Was it the damage that the Combined Agricultural Policy wrought on developing world farmers that Edward was brooding about in his tower? The money wasted on repeatedly moving the European Parliament between Brussels and Strasbourg? What?
@JonnElledge To be fair, if you’d ask the Princes in the Tower if they wanted to leave or remain, I’d bet they’d vote leave.
— Chris Cook (@xtophercook) December 29, 2016
Okay let’s be charitable and assume it’s a typo, presumably for another of Henry’s kids Edward VI. (It certainly wasn’t Edward III who spent much of his reign trying to get into Europe, by kicking off an endless war with France.) But the bigger problem here lies not in the specifics of Daniel’s answer, but in the fact he bothered to answer at all. The entire exercise is entirely ludicrous. It’s like asking for Theresa May’s position on the dissolution of the monasteries, or Jeremy Hunt’s proposals for tackling the Black Death.
The question is an ahistorical nonsense – not just because the European Union was invented in the late 20th century to deal with problems specific to a particular time, but because it misunderstands how England’s role in Europe has evolved over the centuries.
For the first five hundred years or so after the Conquest, the nations of the British Isles were a key part of a western European political system that included France and the Low countries. Until it lost Calais in 1558, indeed, the English Crown generally held territory in France.
The idea that the United Kingdom, as the state became, was with Europe but not of it – that its destiny lay on the high seas, not the continent – is a notion that’s core to Eurosceptic mythology, but one which didn’t emerge until the imperial era. Exactly when I’m not sure (unlike certain Conservative MEPs I’m not afraid to admit my ignorance, which is what makes us better than the animals and egg avatars). However you count it, though, the period between then and 1973 must make up a minority of England’s history as a nation. For most of its history, the idea that the England was somehow not properly “European” would have seemed crazy.
Actually, there was one major European project which a king of both England and Scotland kept us out of, a policy decision confirmed by his successors. That project was a key plank of French foreign policy, grew to encompass more far flung countries like Sweden, and was launched largely to prevent the Germans from getting above themselves. It was the Thirty Years War.
But is James I & VI on Hannan’s list? Is he b*llocks.
“I don’t think it’s a two-way street,” Louise Casey said of integration, early into her questioning by the Communities and Local Government committee. Instead, she described it as a “bloody great motorway” with new arrivals on “a slipway”:
«The people in the middle, the motorway, of course they have to adjust a little bit but the general thing moves in the same direction. »
Casey was there to talk about her recent review on integration, which focused on British South Asian Muslim communities.
Depressing commuter metaphors, she likes to be blunt. She joked she preferred the “shove” unit to the famed “nudge” policy unit. One of her reasons for wanting to promote English is “it would mean we didn’t have to do bloody translation leaflets”. On Rotherham, the town now associated with a child grooming scandal, she said: “The English Defence League milked the hell out of that town.”
Casey herself seems driven by both a Cameronesque muscular liberalism, and a host of petty irritations. On the one hand, she returned again and again to theme of gender equality, and women isolated within an already marginalised community. Her concern for child welfare is clear.
On the other, many of the examples she dwelt on seemed strangely trivial – a student taught to rewire Pakistani rather than UK plugs, Eastern Europeans who didn’t put the bins out right, and the lack of Guardian Soulmates in certain minority communities (Labour MP for Bethnal Green Rushanara Ali pointed out that there are plenty of faith-based apps available). “Nobody told them to queue,” Casey said sadly of new arrivals to the country.
She said she had uncovered examples of extremism in schools, a worrying revelation. But her most concrete example was gender segregation, which she mentioned again and again, without apparently noticing how widespread it is in mainstream education. Eton, you have been warned.
The world conjured up by Casey is one of claustrophobic neighbourhoods, rotten boroughs and twitching lace curtains. It’s clear Casey has paced the streets of Britain’s left behind towns, knocked on many doors and sat in many dusty local authority back rooms.
“You don’t see enough of the good practice there in the report,” said SNP MP for Glasgow Central, Alison Thewliss, one of the few MPs not nodding along.
Casey said she wanted to focus on the priorities for improvement, not what was already done well. «The thing about Scotland, is its population is smaller than London,” she explained. “So getting things done in Scotland is more straightforward. » Thewliss no doubt made a note to tell Holyrood.
But it’s a shame neither she nor the majority of MPs set aside more time to discuss some of the more hopeful findings of her report Like the fact, despite Casey’s avowed wish to go home “and watch telly” at night, 82 per cent of us socialise with someone from a different ethnic or religious background. Or the fact 89 per cent of us consider our community cohesive – more than at the height of New Labour. Maybe everyone on the motorway could do with some examples of good driving.

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Hirokazu Koreeda to Reunite With Masaharu Fukuyama for New Movie

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Hirokazu Koreeda , the Japanese director who is a darling of the international festival circuit (“Air Doll,” “Our LIttle Sister”,) has revealed that his next film will reunite him with Masaharu Fukuyama, star of Koreeda’s 2013 hit family drama “Like Father, Like Son.” The script is a Koreeda original.
Fukuyama plays a hotshot winning-is-everything lawyer who reluctantly defends a convicted killer and ex-convict played by Koji Yakusho (“The Last Ronin,” “Memoirs of a Geisha”) charged with another murder.
The film will shoot from mid-January to March with a September release planned. Distribution in Japan will be jointly by Gaga and Toho. The international sales agent has not yet been settled.
Describing the film’s protagonist, Koreeda said in a statement: “He is a person whose professional credo is that he doesn’t need to know the truth. He takes a certain pride in that. But in dealing with what looks at first glance to be a criminal in a simple murder case, his sense of values is shaken and he really wants to know what is true.”