OPINION
Laila Harré continues to sell what is left of her tattered reputation down the drain by insisting the e-mail produced by Kim Dotcom is real. It’s so real they can’t answer a single question on its legitimacy.
I doubt there is a single person in NZ who really thinks it is real, but in case there are some, here’s a few reasons to doubt it.
- Large US companies are required under US law (for legal discovery reasons) to have e-mail systems that archive all e-mails, and are independently stored so they can’t be deleted.
- The time stamp looks fake with no UTC reference
- The date is in NZ format, not US format
- No executive would ever send an e-mail detailing a conspiracy with a foreign government, to a lobby group
- The font and spacing is identical to what you get in the default mode of Notepad
- There was no separate meeting between the Warners CEO and John Key
- The dialogue in the e-mail is cartoonish, perfectly scripted to fit what Dotcom has claimed
- No detailed headers have been provided
- Even Dotcom’s lawyer won’t touch the e-mail – as he knows it could never be admitted in court
- Dotcom still won’t comment on the e-mail despite it being confirmed there is no Privileges Committee, so it can’t be before it.
Political commentator David Farrar posts at Kiwiblog.
David Farrar
Wed, 17 Sep 2014
Wed, 17 Sep 2014
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