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Old 11-09-2007, 04:18 PM   #3802
Tyrone Slothrop
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
shouldn't a tele company get to trust the President?
If President Nixon asked you to rob an office in the Watergate building and told you that it would be OK, would you trust him? Probably so, but you would deserve your time in a federal penetentiary.

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i mean if he broke the law the by telling a company that it wasn't, it seems to me you should be impeaching him or something.
Your hypo points to an important facet of this, which is that he won't tell Congress what the telcos did that they should be immunized for.
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