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Originally Posted by dculkin
Listening to Alberto Gonzales reminds me of being back in law school where people would muse about just how far legal arguments could be stretched to cover various scenarios.
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Agreed. Its a kind of cunning without wisdom. I hate listening to not only Gonzales but the Homeland Security guy. Its like, well, we have certain information from certain sources.
Q.) What kind of info, what kind of sources?
A.) Well, I can't answer that without compromising national security.
Q.) Well, what are you doing about it?
A.) Again I can't tell you that without compromising national security...
On and on. Secrecy and democracy are not mutually exclusive, but when these guys are interviewed on news programs it just irks me a bit. Its just a bit too easy for them to say these things, as if there was no debate on fundamental issues, its just the way it is and we're at war and thats that. These guys may be smart, but there is no real intellect operating there that I can percieve. They're tools.