Dunn Sloppy Answer To the Obvious Answer

Greg Mitchell over at the Recorder's Legal Pad blog grabs a moment I missed during the hearing: Dunn gets asked the obvious question: How did you think investigators got these records?

"My understanding was that these records were publicly available," Dunn replied during her Congressional testimony (view webcast), that "you could call up and get these records, and it was a common investigative technique."

[Congressman] Walden paused a beat. "You really believed that?" he asked, drawing a smattering of laughter. "I'm sorry, but you believe I could call up whoever is your carrier and [ask for your records]? Your home, your office, your cell?"[...]

Walden turned to notes produced in August by Wilson Sonsini lawyers as part of the Sonsini-led investigation of the techniques used in boardroom leak probe. The notes indicate, Walden pointed out, that in an interview with Wilson lawyers, Dunn said she believed the records were available because of the phone company's "administrative sloppiness."

Check the full thing here.

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