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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
shouldn't a tele company get to trust the President? i mean if he broke the law the by telling a company that it wasn't, it seems to me you should be impeaching him or something.
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No. And, fwiw, I assume that it wasn't George Bush personally calling each CEO, asking for help.
If I can step out of character for a moment -- I represented a business entity that was one of several victims of a criminal. State and federal law enforcement authorities investigated, and asked for copies of documents that were (like phone conversations) protected by federal statute. We said, love to help, send us a subpoena. They went ballistic, bullied, blustered, etc., and finally sent a subpoena.
Anyway, my point is that if my client had given the documents without the complusion of the subpoena, they would have been the one in violation of the statute, not the state and fed law enforcement types who would have been in receipt of the records.
Interesting discussion here about the topic
http://www.overlawyered.com/2007/10/...com_immun.html
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