I have learned that while you can deny making certain verbal statements, in today's digital world, you can never deny a statement made via e-mail because it is electronically recorded. As I have been monitoring the Countywide fiasco over the past few weeks, like everyone else, it made me think about the e-mails that are being circulated during this economic downturn by corporate leaders. The power of email is that it can take the casual and informal thoughts of a corporate leader and archive them as statements with prior knowledge and devious intent once the SEND button is pressed. Today's digital trail is far more incriminating than yesterday's paper trail.
Here is an article I found about the
Countrywide fiasco that you also might find interesting.