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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (3787)	9/3/1998 9:16:00 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

David, I've had enough experiences to know that depositions are bogus, tedious little legal proceedings. The idea that people don't lie in depositions would set a roomful of lawyers laughing. Lawyers are ethically bound not to coach their witnesses to lie, but testimony is massaged, manipulated, and directed in subtle ways that is the equivalent of lying. I was told once that unless I was 100% sure of a particularly bad fact, I could just say that I could not recall. Never give a straight yes or no answer. Just say maybe, don't know, don't recall. (I heard Bill Gates recently had a huge lack of recall in his deposition). In spite of this normal practice to obfuscate, dissemble, and hide things in depositions I have never heard of anyone ever seek sanctions, let alone criminal penalties for lying at a deposition. It's simply unheard of. So is lying under oath a moral, righteous thing? No. But is it done 24-7? You bet. And 99.9999% of the people who do it get away with it.