John, some of the press were relying on House sources to get the material up as quickly as possible. Also AP provided it to its members on a password-protected web site. I was the first in Time's DC bureau to get the report; I'm not going to reveal my source save to say it wasn't Starr's office. -Declan On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, John Young wrote:
Declan, a few questions on the CDs of the Starr report:
1. Did the press get the CDs, say, embargoed, before the House authorized release?
2. Who handled the CD distribution, the House or Starr or 3rd party?
3. Do you know anything about how the CDs were made, by Starr's op or some other party, and when made?
4. Will there be pre-releases of press-only CDs of the remaining material, that is, is there a boxed-series prepared of the whole wad for lobbing week by weekly?
This is a query about fake news, lying, perjuring, you know, to the American People, whatever that junk-populace is cooked up to be.