House Democrats to Bush: No way on telecom immunity
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| Rebuffing a series of incendiary statements from President Bush, House
| Democrats left town for a week without granting telecommunications firms
| immunity from violating federal privacy laws.
|
| In a speech on Thursday, Bush accused Democrats of endangering "the lives of
| countless Americans" by not enacting the legislation he and fellow
| Republicans had proposed, which includes retroactive immunity for
| telecommunications companies that illegally opened their networks to the
| National Security Agency.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9872969-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
White House e-discovery squeeze puts e-mail backup in focus
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| As the White House contends with a federal judge's order to prepare a
| discovery plan amid a legal skirmish about missing e-mail, storage experts
| say businesses should move to improve backup and e-mail archiving policies to
| avoid similar legal problems.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9062642&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top
There was a case a while ago where the use of Microsoft software was used as
the cause (excuse) for loss of evidence in an important case.
This is the same thing as in Intel and Microsoft court cases, as shown below.
These companies/parties are all corrupt, unlike those E-mails which were in
tact (but deleted) rather than corrupted.
Related:
Bush team deletes embarrassing emails
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| According to the Washington Post, countless e-mails to and from
| many key White House staffers have been deleted to avoid
| congressional subpoenas.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38892
Intel's anti-trust memos started vanishing from the top
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| Chairman Craig Barrett, CEO Paul Otellini and sales chief Sean Maloney
| have appeared on a list of Intel employees thought to have deleted
| e-mails possibly relevant to AMD's anti-trust lawsuit against its
| larger rival. The missing e-mails have thrust a livid state of mind
| onto AMD's lawyers who have very serious problems with Intel's
| rather lax document retention policy.
|
| [...]
|
| CEO Otellini appears to have been one of these troublesome employees.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/11/intel_tortellini_episode/
U.S. judge orders Intel to try to recover e-mails
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| Farnan gave Intel 30 days to recover as many of the missing e-mails
| as possible and to draw up a report on the steps it is taking to do
| so, Mulloy said.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070307:MTFH90775_2007-03-07_18-56-16_N06406049&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/2fbanr
AMD: Intel Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case
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| In an unpublished statement to the U.S. District Court of Delaware,
| AMD alleges Intel allowed the destruction of evidence in pending
| antitrust litigation.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6352
Microsoft dirty tricks, part two (Bob Cringely)
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| "So the outside vendor was Hewlett-Packard, one of Microsoft's
| hardware OEMs, which is to say Microsoft's bitch.
|
| The tape disappearance was blamed on HP, which accepted the blame,
| and the employees directly involved kept expecting there to be
| repurcussions, especially legal ones. They expected to be deposed by
| Burst lawyers. But it never happened.
|
| This was, for Microsoft, a perfect ending. ..."
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http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_4.html
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| In May 2004, Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to
| investigate Burst.com's claim that, in 2000, Allchin ordered
| Microsoft employees to destroy email after 30 days and not to
| archive their email, suggesting that this deletion policy
| might be an effort to eliminate material that would later be
| damaging in court. This case was settled out of court in March
| 2005, with Microsoft agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million
| for nonexclusive rights to Burst.com's media player software.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
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