[Am-info] Re: Add witness tampering to the list
Erick Andrews
Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:22:15 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:07:08 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
>On Wednesday 17 April 2002 11:31 am, T.Guilbert wrote:
>>[...]
>> You have a lot better chance of convincing people if you stick to
>> the bad things Microsoft actually has done -- there is plenty of
>> material available -- and do not try to allege that Gates is a
>> conflation of E. Howard Hunt and Dita Beard (use your Google search
>> engine if that went over your head) simply because somebody asked
>> Gates for a favor. Again, with a record like Gates has, you hardly
>> need to fabricate a bad rap.
>
>all of this is fair enough as far as Gates goes except for one thing:
>it is alleged Gates said he'd talk to his people about the favor. are
>you saying this doesn't ground suspicions?
>
>you are in a position to do me a favor in exchange for my doctoring
>my testimony to a court; I say to you, "sure I'll testify on your
>behalf. oh, by the way, can you do such-and-such for me?"
>
>if you respond as Gates is alleged to have responded, is there odor?
>
IF, all this happened as alleged, which is still an IF, it would be more
than odor.
Problem may be: where's the witness?, where's the audit trail?, where's
the veracity? Slippery eel, methinks, despite you must know I think
it, too. What will K-K do? Dunno, but I do hope she's keeping tabs
even on plausible anecdotes. It's all treachery.
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Erick