Originally Posted by
turbidus
AFTER all this time, they "FIND" documents that show troubling and further communications with Forkner?????
You can do a word search for "Forkner" and find them all????
what sort of software do the run there??? (oh...never mind)
Careful, the wording used was
"additional documents that were discovered by its internal investigation ... that the company’s lawyers say it needs to disclose".
The
finding may have been done long ago, the "need to disclose" may be the recent change.
Finding (electronic) documents is relatively easy, can be done with software. Deciding
which documents you "need to disclose" or which documents are protected from disclosure or even
may not be disclosed, is a lot harder, cannot be done (in most cases) with software, and requires wetware. Expensive, legal, wetware.
There is also a high stakes poker game going on between Boeing, Forkner and Justice Dept. / investigators. Forkner plead the fifth, clearly implying he has something to hide, something to sell, and something to gain from immunity - but no one knows what, maybe it's all a bluff. Boeing has to guess, because Forkner apparently isn't using Boeing legal counsel (no **** sherlock...) - which means they can't be sure if he is going to helpfully fall on his sword or come round behind them and stab them with it.