Going Down the Tubes
So, in case you've been under a rock lately, Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted for not disclosing gifts he received from an oil company. To wit:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/31/stevens.indictment/
The Senator's defense appears to be based upon malfunctioning communications equipment in his office. Specifically, he claims:
"I attempted several times to notify the Senate of these gifts via Internet, but each time I tried to send my Internet, it couldn't get through, because lots of other Internets were in the way. I tried to clean out the tubes with a lottery ball, but even that got stuck. The obstruction was an enormous amount of material ... an enormous amount of material."
Poor guy.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/31/stevens.indictment/
The Senator's defense appears to be based upon malfunctioning communications equipment in his office. Specifically, he claims:
"I attempted several times to notify the Senate of these gifts via Internet, but each time I tried to send my Internet, it couldn't get through, because lots of other Internets were in the way. I tried to clean out the tubes with a lottery ball, but even that got stuck. The obstruction was an enormous amount of material ... an enormous amount of material."
Poor guy.