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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Les H who wrote (12822)11/4/1998 4:54:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
Les, you nut. There's an explicit law involved here, Bill Gates' deposition was supposed to have been taken in public in the first place. You can rest assured that its viewing in court has been subject to judicial review. See nytimes.com
Microsoft contends the obscure Publicity in Taking Evidence Act of 1913 doesn't apply in its circumstances, arguing that "Congress never intended the statute to apply to modern discovery depositions now being taken at a breakneck pace in this case."

That dastardly Clinton DoJ had actually asked to have the law repealed last year, but Congress wasn't interested. Depositions were taken while Microsoft appealed the law, on the grounds of the danger of "trade secrets" being revealed. In that Bill's case, the main trade secret that came out was that he couldn't remember a thing! Premature senility? Deposition dependent amnesia? Perjury, perhaps? Who can say?

Cheers, Dan.
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