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So Mr. Holder, were you able to confirm the veracity of Susan Fowler's descriptions of her experiences at Uber?

Mr. Holder?

Is this thing on?

On what planet would any company publicly release a document that creates a slam dunk civil case against them, unless required to do so by law? The goal was for Uber to get the value insight of outside counsel, not for all of us to do so.

Susan Fowler can file a civil case and get a copy of the full report to read to a jury, but Uber's lawyers and outside counsel would have to be incompetent to let them release the full report publicly.

A planet on which a $70 billion company was facing an existential threat which required it to convince the public it was serious about change, which it could do with an acknowledgement, an apology and a settlement of a few million.

This wouldn't just be an attempt to bury culpable behavior under a mountain of legalese, would it?

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