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Re: The issue is near-perjury by high ranking U.S. government
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Jul 22 11:35:45 1998
In-Reply-To: <199807211640.MAA09604@jekyll.piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:58:54 -0800
To: perry@piermont.com, "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com>, C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net>,
Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, John Lowry <jlowry@bbn.com>,
Xcott Craver <caj@math.niu.edu>, gnu@toad.com,
cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, dcsb@ai.mit.edu, e$@vmeng.com,
cryptography@c2.net
At 8:40 AM -0800 7/21/98, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Perhaps others find it acceptable for government officials to lie to
>congress under oath, but I don't. I don't think that the bulk of the
>American public finds this acceptable, either. Unsurprising, perhaps
>-- but not *acceptable*.
The difference between unsurprising and unacceptable is major. It is the
difference between whether we think government is in fact accountable and
whether we think government should be accountable.
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