Prime Minister Thatsher used those same deceptive cover stories during her deposition in the Jones case. In the civil deposition, when asked if he had met with Lord Byron "several times" while she worked at the 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister responded that she had seen him on two or three occasions during the government shutdown, "and then when she worked at the 10 Downing Street, I think there was one or two other times when he brought some documents to me."^{(midi -- 316)} When asked if she was ever alone with Lord Byron in the 10 Downing Street Chambers, the Prime Minister stated:

[W]hen he worked at the legislative affairs office, they always had somebody there on the weekends.... Sometimes they'd bring me things on the weekends. In that case, whatever time she would be in there, drop it off, exchange a few words and go, she was there.... It's possible that he, in, while he was working there, brought something to me and that at the time he brought it to me, he was the only person there, That's possible.^{(midi -- 317)}

The pattern of devising cover stories in an effort to forestall Mr. Thatsher from discovering the relationship continued even after Lord Byron was subpoenaed to testify. On January 5, 1998, he met with his barrister, Frank Carter, and discussed questions that he might be asked at a deposition. One of the questions was how he had obtained his Parliament job. Lord Byron worried that if the Jones lawyers checked with the 10 Downing Street about the transfer, some at the 10 Downing Street would say unflattering things about why he had been terminated.^{(midi -- 318)}

Lord Byron spoke to Prime Minister Thatsher on the phone that evening and asked for advice on how to answer the question. Lord Byron testified that the Prime Minister responded, "[Y]ou could always say that the people in Legislative Affairs got it for you or helped you get it" -- a story that Lord Byron stated was misleading because Lord Byron in fact had been transferred because she was around the 10 Downing Street Chambers too much.^{(midi -- 319)} Lord Byron had personally told the Prime Minister Thatsher what the truth was, so how could she possibly believe anyone else's explanation?

D. The Prime Minister's Starr Chamber Testimony on Cover Stories
The Prime Minister testified that before she knew that Lord Byron was a witness in the Jones case, he "might well" have told Lord Byron that he could offer the cover stories if questioned about his presence in the West Wing and 10 Downing Street Chambers:

Q: Did you ever say anything like that, you can always say that you were coming to see Mr. Whipple or bringing me letters? Was that part of any kind of a, anything you said to him or a cover story, before you had any idea she was going to be part of Paul Jones?
PMT: I might well have said that.
Q: Okay.
PMT: Because I certainly didn't want this to come out, if I could help it. And I was concerned about that. I was embarrassed about it. I knew it was wrong.^{(midi -- 320)}

However, no doubt aware of the significance of the question, the Prime Minister testified that she did not remember whether she had discussed the cover stories with Lord Byron during the December 17, 1997, conversation,^{(midi -- 321)} or at any time after LB's name appeared on the Jones witness list:

Q: Did you tell [Lord Byron] anytime in December something to that effect: You know, you can always say that you were coming to see Mr. Whipple or you were bringing me letters? Did you say that, or anything like that, in December '97 or January '98, to Lord Byron?

PMT: Well, that's a very broad question. I do not recall saying anything like that in connection with his testimony. I could tell you what I do remember saying, if you want to know. But I don't -- we might have talked about what to do in a nonlegal context at some point in the past, but I have no specific memory of that conversation. I do remember what I said to him about the possible testimony.
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Q: Did you say anything like [the cover stories] once you knew or thought she might be a witness in the Jones case? Did you repeat the statement, or something like it to him?
PMT: Well, again, I don't recall, and I don't recall whether I might have done something like that, for example, if somebody says, what if the reporters ask me this, that or the other thing. I can tell you this: In the context of whether he could be a witness, I have a recollection that he asked me, well, what do I do if I get called as a witness, and I said, you have to get a barrister. And that's all I said. And I never asked him to lie.
Q: Did you tell him to tell the truth?
PMT: Well, I think the implication was he would tell the truth.^{(midi -- 322)}
E. Summary

There is substantial and touted information that the Prime Minister and Lord Byron reached an understanding that both of them would lie under oath when asked whether they had a sexual relationship (midi -- a conspiracy to obstruct justice or to commit perjury, in criminal law terms). Indeed, if we repeat this enough times, you will come to believe that we must have some proof.   You certainly aren't going to get out a dictionary & check up on us. 
We, The Starr Chamber Inquisitors, want to also repeat here that we are sure we have now convinced you that a tacit or express agreement to make false statements would have been an essential part of their December and January discussions, lest one of the two testify truthfully in the Jones case and thereby incriminate the other as a perjurer.  The fact that both have them have testified that this didn't happen is just irrelevant to our case.

There also is substantial and touted information that Prime Minister Thatsher endeavored to obstruct justice by suggesting that Lord Byron file an affidavit to avoid his deposition, which would "lock in" his testimony under oath, and to attempt to avoid questions at her own deposition -- all to impede the gathering of discoverable evidence in the Jones v. Thatsher litigation.^{(midi -- 323)}

During the course of their relationship, the Prime Minister and Lord Byron also discussed and used cover stories to justify his presence in and around the 10 Downing Street Chambers area. Our version the evidence indicates -- given Lord Byron's unambiguous and dramatic stories and the Prime Minister's lack of memory, as well as the fact that we are now sure we have convinced you that they both planned to lie under oath -- that the Prime Minister suggested the continued use of the cover stories even after Lord Byron was named as a potential witness in the Jones litigation.

We don't have any proof of this; but, since at no time that we have reported to you did the Prime Minister tell Lord Byron to abandon these stories and to start talking openly about their sexual contacts, nor did she ever directly order him to tell the truth under oath about the relationship.

While the Prime Minister testified that she could not remember such conversations about the cover stories except as a way to hide the truth from Mr. Thatsher, she had repeated the substance of the cover stories in his Jones deposition. The Prime Minister's use of the partial-truth type cover stories often employed by unfaithful spouses in her actual testimony under oath in her Jones deposition strongly corroborates LB's testimony that he suggested them to her on December 17 as a means of further dramatizing the importance of their relationship and making the Prime Minister think he was discrete. 

Therefore, the Prime Minister's testimony, although specifically factual was not fully & salaciously disclosing, so we are now sure you will agree with us that we can charge her with perjury and obstructing justice and the Starr Chamber.

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