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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (51122)	3/8/2004 8:45:08 PM
From: Libbyt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

...she should have thought about that possibility before, shouldn't she? I agree, that Martha should have handled just about everything to do with this entire issue differently. An interesting article about "the Martha" case, posted on another board: cbsnews.com From the article:..."Make sure you don't talk to the feds unless you have to"...and "But the biggest and clearest lesson is precisely the one that the feds hoped we all would learn from this case. It is that the government can target anyone, even the most popular and successful among us, and bring about a successful prosecution with even the fluffiest of evidence. There were no victims here. No bloodshed. The world isn't safer today than it was yesterday. Martha Stewart is going to jail because she didn't level to investigators about a telephone call that any investor would love to get and that many investors do get every day in this country. The only difference between her and them is that the feds decided to make an example of her. It worked. She's done. Watch out."