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To: Bearded One who wrote (12925)	12/3/1998 1:08:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Everyone is playing word games. No, he's not on the witness list but his deposition counts as much as any witness, perhaps more than most. Why should a deposition be used to "assess the credibility of the witness" when he's not a witness? I think it's a travesty that DOJ can introduce these tapes, containing inadmissible statements as most depositions do, as evidence (if we want to be as loose with words as calling Gates a witness) without formally calling Gates as a witness. Unless you believe that the press is really* stupid and biased, I can't imagine that that trick would work more than once.* Read a newspaper account on any controversial topic. QED. Besides, any reasoning that Gates would give would be called as an "excused" and reported as such by press who would, as a matter of "fairness," seek out dissenting opinions to rebut Gate's assertions of legality. I'm sure Netscape would be very willing to trot out Bork for this job. How many times did the press fall sucker to false leaks from the White House. Do they still? Who cares if it's correct, just that we report it first. If it was wrong we'll just issue a back page or 3AM retraction later. The business isn't to tell the truth. The business is to sell newspapers/gain viewers.