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  1. Magic Bullet? on Ask The DeCSS Legal Team · · Score: 1
    Do you think that the employment history of the head of the MPAA influenced the judge`s decision?
    It did seem to be referenced in his statement...

    "Computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement"
    Judge Kaplan

    Stuart Biegel commented "I'm very troubled by the implications of the analysis in this case, particularly with regard to linking"

    Too Right. Try these... (with excerpts for your convenience)

    MPAA
    "In 1955 he met the man who would have the largest impact on his life, the then Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson. Valenti's agency was in charge of the press during the visit of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to Texas. Valenti was in the motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Within hours of the murder of John F. Kennedy, Valenti was on Air Force One flying back to Washington, the first newly hired special assistant to the new President."

    CIA
    "President Kennedy's Checklist was published daily for two and a half years, capturing the regular attention of the President and serving his needs. Created out of an almost desperate desire to please a President who had found the Agency wanting, it proved to be the forerunner of the President's Daily Brief, the publication that was to serve all presidents from 1964 to the present.

    For reasons undoubtedly growing out of the earlier political rivalry between Kennedy and Johnson, Kennedy's intelligence assistant, Bromley Smith, early in the administration had ordered that "under no circumstances should the Checklist be given to Johnson."

    The Transition to President Johnson

    The transition to President Johnson was as abrupt for the US Intelligence Community as it was for the rest of the country. In some respects, it was also as uncertain

    Saturday morning, 23 November 1963, the day following Kennedy's assassination
    The new President's Daily Brief, designed specifically for President Johnson, was delivered to the White House on 1 December 1964. Its fresh appearance obviously appealed to the President. His assistant, Jack Valenti, sent the first issue back to Bundy with word that the President read it, liked it, and wanted it continued."

    Jack Valenti
    "My greatest achievement? I survived - I'm not joking."

    Niether Am I... Check out The List - JFK Assassination Key People

    JFK