FC: Antitrust nominee gets no questions about Microsoft suit

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 07:57:48 PDT

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    Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 16:40:18 -0700
    From: "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitkaat_private>
    To: cp <counterpunch-listat_private>,
             Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    Subject: Dems. Gagged: No MS Questions for Anti-Trust Nominee
    
    AP Business
    
    Antitrust Nominee Gets No Questions
    
    by JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer
    
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lawyer chosen to lead the Justice
    Department division trying to break up Microsoft Corp. got
    through a Senate nomination hearing Wednesday without having
    to answer a single question about the lawsuit.
    
    Charles A. James, a veteran lawyer with a reputation for
    conservatism on antitrust matters, has been nominated by
    President Bush to lead the Justice Department's antitrust
    division. During his nomination hearing, James did not field
    a single major question from the Senate Judiciary Committee
    about the Microsoft case, the biggest antitrust case left
    over from the Clinton administration.
    
    ''We've all raised it behind the scenes,'' Senate Judiciary
    Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah said after the hearing. ''We've
    got to let the courts decide that matter.''
    
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