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Judicial Watch released the following statement relevant to modification of a complaint:

Judicial Watch

(Washington, D.C.) Today, Gennifer Flowers amended her complaint previously filed in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, alleging libel and slander against James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. Because of newly discovered information that Hillary Rodham Clinton was the mastermind, who implemented and carried out a scheme to destroy, or in Hillary Rodham Clinton's words "crucify," Gennifer Flowers, Hillary Rodham Clinton was added to the complaint. Plaintiff anticipates that this lawsuit, which is not complicated, will proceed to trial quickly, and be held before a jury of Ms. Flowers' peers in Las Vegas. Mr. Carville, who has called Ms. Flowers, and nearly every other woman regrettably associated with the President, "trailer trash," will have to explain to jurors, many of whom are likely to live in trailers, exactly what he meant.

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and, from Wired Magazine we have this interesting comment on computer privacy:

Wired

The Clinton administration wants to be able to send federal agents armed with search warrants into homes to copy encryption keys and implant secret back doors onto computers.

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The idea first surfaced in mid-1999, when the Justice Department proposed legislation that allowed them to obtain surreptitious warrants and "postpone" notifying the person whose property they entered for 30 days.

And, in Britain, the trend is from e-trade and e-commerce to e-confession.

The Times

Premier On-Line, part of the Premier Christian Radio organisation, opened yesterday a website, www.theconfessor.co.uk, which is designed to invite visitors to make their confession either in their own words or by using a set form of words as employed by Roman Catholics and other Christians around the world. The website offers the reassurance: "This is between you and God and your privacy is totally respected."

Lets see if I have this straight. You confess to your computer, but the confession is intercepted by the Clinton White House, whereupon you are immediately sentenced and jailed. Do I have this right?

-- rocky (rknolls@no.spam), January 21, 2000