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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Maybe my television's broken, but it looked to me like Rice is a spokesperson of the administration. There's a special rule for the effect of the statements of a person specifically authorized to speak on behalf of another.
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As I said, I've questioned whether your analogy to the corporate form, in which all officers are deemed to be agents for the company, and therefore capable of unilaterally waiving the company's claims of privilege, apply directly to the executive branch. You're assuming that Rice is a general agent for Bush and therefore all of her actions are deemed authorized by him. I don't think that's a fair assumption in the political, as opposed to corporate, world.
