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To: familyofman

Irritation at feigned ignorance of how criminal charges are brought under our system, combined with strengthing of suspicion that respondent is spewing misleading noise for dishonest reasons.

Laughter at transparent attempt to posit moral equivalence between soliciting bribes and "outside contacts" in general.

Walking by your open window and viewing you in the act of repeatedly slamming your child into a wall imposes a moral obligation on me to report what I have seen, even though doing so is, on its face, a violation of your privacy.

Besides which, it is fundamentally dishonest — and an attempt to trade on ignorance — to position as "theft" the use, for any reason, of the work product of government employees engaged in the performance of their duties. There is not, and cannot be under our law, a private property right to such works.

The idea of "ownership" of written materials is handled under our system by copyright law. 17USC Section 1.105 states

The works might be classified under certain statutes having to do with national security, but these were not. And in any case, that is still not a property right. Had these works been produced by employees of the DNC, you might have a point. But they weren't. The documents are the work product of government employees operating within the scope of their employment. Further allegation that these memos were "stolen" can only mark you as a deliberate... well.... liar. So please don't do that anymore.

68 posted on 02/07/2004 11:40:49 AM PST by Nick Danger (clank furry quad barbecue)
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To: Nick Danger
For me the big questions will be the following:

1. Did Miranda tell Hatch and/or Frist about the memos, and did Hatch and/or Frist not do anything about what Mrianda told them?

2. What is in the memos that were NOT published?

I know I would have immediately told Hatch and/or Frist about what I saw the instant I saw what Miranda says he saw in his ethics complaint.
69 posted on 02/07/2004 11:49:03 AM PST by hchutch ("I never get involved with my own life. It's too much trouble." - Michael Garibaldi)
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