interesting argument. I would like to think you are right. I just don't know.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dana wrote:
>>
>> I have to say -- offhand I find that quite dismaying, and the source
>> unimpeachable.
>>
>
> So we now have 2 administrations - polar opposites - approving of the
> same techniques.  So just talking through the possibilities without
> endorsing any:
>
> (1.) Gov't loves abusing power through wiretaps.
>
> (2.) There's a good reason for the policy which involves something we
> don't know, and can't be disclosed to us.
>
> If the second is the case, why wouldn't either administration say
> something to this effect?
>
> To me it's not logically consistent that the DOJ would drop the case
> against Sen Stevens for corruption, but support this corruption (not
> that corruption always makes sense).
>
> Thus I think the answer to my hypothetical question would be: because
> if they said something it would undermine their legal case which they
> need to win for a reason they can't disclose to us.
>
> 

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