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« While al Qaeda Planned, The Clinton Administration Snoozed | Main | Who Killed Jesus? » February 25, 2004Secrecy, Lies and Legislation 3I have - finally - received a response from the Tennessee General Assembly's Office of Legal Services regarding a lie one of its deputy counsels told in an email to the president of the Tennessee Digital Freedom Network, regarding a hearing on a piece of controversial telecommunications theft legislation. (Background here and here.) In the email to Scott Lyons, Tigue claims he was "the only speaker" at the hearing, though audio tapes of the hearing prove that two lawyer/lobbyists on the payroll of the cable television industry, which backs the legislation, were also invited to speak. Ellen Tewes, director of the Office of Legal Services, wrote I have spoken with Mr. Tigue about the events surrounding the meeting of the Communications Theft Study Committee and his e-mail to Scott Lyon. When Mr. Tigue stated that he was the only speaker at the meeting, he meant that he was the only speaker on the agenda.That's great spin, and if Tigue's email had been sent before the hearing, it would actually be believable spin. But it isn't, because Tigue's email was sent after the hearing, in response to Lyon's email which had expressed that the TDFN would have liked to have had someone to speak at the meeting, and Tigue knew others had spoken at the meeting in favor of the legislation, yet he told Lyons: I was the only speaker at that meeting so you did not miss a chance to speak by not attending.Yet, clearly, they DID miss a chance to speak - a chance Tigue knew when he wrote the email that lobbyist/lawyers on the other side of the debate had been given at the hearing. Posted in Digital Freedom
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It should also be noted that during the opening remarks regarding this bill at the Senate Judicial Committee meeting, Mr PErson claimed that there was equal opertunity for representation. He also went on to comment on the unanimous vote to accept the bill. When confronted after the committee meeting about his misrepresentation of the facts, he said he didn't chair the committee and it should be taken up with Sen. Trail. It's funny how he tries to sidestep his own actions in misrepresenting the truth. Add to this the nature of this bill and an admitance that they are stepping into copyright legislation even though they have no right to do so. What a waste of legislative time. On the calander for that day where a few other very important bills that I don't remember getting heard, yet it was important to Person to hear 30+ minutes of BMI/ASCAP comments and 11+ minutes of MPAA rebuttal. Posted by: Steven Critchfield at February 25, 2004 11:49 AMPost a comment
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