In a rare display of the government's ability to keep a secret, the Justice Department sprang the enforcement action in a surprise press conference conducted by Attorney General Janet Reno and Joel Klein, the current head of the Antitrust Division. The press release's heading declared that the Justice Department "Asks Court to Impose $1 Million a Day Fine if Violation Continues." Some reporters assumed that the daily $1-million fine was already accruing. In fact, unless the court first rules that the government's interpretation of the decree is correct, issues an order directing Microsoft to cease violating the decree, and provides in the order for civil fines to be levied against Microsoft if violations continue thereafter, Microsoft will face no liability for any civil fine, much less for $1 million a day.