The headline over the December 8 story in the New York Times business section captured perfectly Microsoft CEO Bill Gates's brilliant, even Clintonian defense against the government's anti-trust case: "Gates Criticizes government's Lawyers for Tone of His Deposition." The story continued: "Gates . . . blamed the Government today for what has been widely perceived as his uncooperative attitude during a videotaped deposition. . . . 'I had expected [government lead attorney] Boies to ask me about competition in the software industry, . . . but no, he didn't do that."
So it was the government's questions that were responsible for the fact that Gates didn't have a clue what any of his own e-mails meant.