The defense counsel in the Trump administration's Reflecting Pool vandalism case were forced to school the prosecution on how grand jury secrecy rules work. The case concerns Olympic canoeist David "Davey" Hearn, who is charged by federal prosecutors with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after its controversial renovation on President Donald Trump's orders. "But the government has Rule 6(e) exactly backward. While 'an attorney for the government' is expressly prohibited from disclosing, without permission, a matter occurring before a grand jury, the defense is not ... Accordingly, there can be no defense Rule 6(e) violation resulting from the defense's proper use of grand jury testimony in connection with these judicial proceedings."