[Iwo Jima]

I agree with you. This incident actually makes me think better of Martha. She was obviously scared by the feds and was tempted to try to change the evidence. But for whatever reason she thought better of it and said "put it back the way it was." This to me shows some character that I didn't expect to see from Martha.

Yes, she was tempted to go down a wrong path, but in the end she did not. I have to give her credit for that.

[mvpel]

It wouldn't have taken a rocket scientist back then to see that ImClone was starting to trend downwards. Meanwhile murders go uninvestigated in New York.

[William Tell]

Iwo Jima said: "She was obviously scared by the feds and was tempted to try to change the evidence. But for whatever reason she thought better of it and said "put it back the way it was."

If I was paying someone to keep track of phone logs on a computer for me, I would certainly insist that they keep regular backups in case the computer fails.

Martha may have realized at the last minute that she was engaged in attempting to erase a message which might be interpreted as evidence of a crime, but possibly leaving backup copies which would prove that she had attempted to make the change. She may also have realized that a living witness to her modifying the phone log was every bit as potentially damaging as the original message.

Martha show every evidence of having arrogantly assumed that she didn't need expert legal advice. She could probably have copped a plea early on in exchange for implicating the broker. The circle in which she moves would not have tolerated such disloyalty. It is quite similar to the circle which protects the Klintons.

[Sacajaweau]

A more likely scenario is is: Martha asked to see the memo, saw it, decided she would change it and either the lightbulb went off by itself or someone else was there saying: "If you change it, it won't match what he has on HIS hard drive."

[Dr. Eckleburg]

She's being prosecuted for things that go on every day of the week without a sneeze from the Feds. There's something else behind this show trial, IMO.

Either she was supporting the wrong candidates in a major way, or some people hope to obscure the fact that few Enron officials are behind bars, or she made a major enemy out of certain parties represented by the prissy Faneuil.

Her billion dollar company has now lost half its value, and K-Mart has suffered by her prosecution.

She's being major league railroaded. It's just not clear why.