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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
What is the context that's relevant? You're hanging your hat on the claim that no one objected to the program for two years, so that gives it some presumption of legality. Yet, it was a covert program about which few people knew and no one proclaimed legal. You're cool with the fact that it went on for 2-3 years in an unknown form more broad than the current program that later came to light?
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say you are in charge of the Memorial Bridge. 20,000 cars drive over it every day. The bridge is really important to get traffic into and out of the District. Now an engineer says that the Bridge isn't safe and really needs work.
You'd shut down the bridge the moment you read that report, or do you consider what you need to do to fix it, while still maintaining the critical traffic flow?
