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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (12822)	11/4/1998 4:24:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 67261

Yeah Les, that's right, totally forgot about Bill Gates.....where's the indignation at the release of the Gates video tape, ooooh, that Reno Justice Dept. is outta control.......bp

To: Les H who wrote (12822)	11/4/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 67261

<<Clintons' conduct in the office was what trashed the office.>> Are you referring to the cigar? I found that rather entertaining. <gg> Perhaps you mean Clinton's getting a chuckle out of snapping Monica's lingerie straps in the oval office? That sounded rather fun to me. <gg> And how do you think the office of the Presidency is impacted by Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemmings? Now THAT was an age difference for you. OK, maybe he was only Ambassador to France when the now proved part of his relationship with his comely 15 yr. old mulatto slave, Sally, took place. Still, the consent technicalities in that one are a bit daunting: "Yes, master, I freely and willingly consent?" Quick, lets impeach him in effigy. Sand blast him off Mt. Rushmore. Take him off the nickel. Decide that really it was someone else who ghost wrote most of the Declaration of Independence. These Presidents do seem to be men of big sexual appetites, not always fully and properly constrained by proper Christian family values. Don't they? Doug

To: Les H who wrote (12822)	11/4/1998 4:54:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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 That dastardly Clinton DoJ had actually asked to have the law repealed last year, but Congress wasn't interested.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.