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Re: [privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds
From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:54:14 -0700
Brian Loe wrote:
On 9/21/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:Checks and balances?Exactly, they're asking the court to reign in a lower court. The appeals court may or may not do it. I don't understand your point.The executive branch trying muscle the judicial branch?They'll do what they want (and hopefully what is right). Perhaps I'm too cynical but I'm pretty sure that if you believed this information could be bad if released (or there was a different president in office defending it) you wouldn't want the government to be brought to its knees by some piss-and court...would you?
I think you mean "pissant", meaning small and meaningless. http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990331 I'd love to see the people holding this opinion go toe to toe with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the other founding fathers, 'splaining to them how they got that "tri-cameral" government thing all wrong. Who needs an independent judiciary that checks/balances the Congress and Executive? -- Dave Dittrich Information Assurance Researcher, dittrich () u washington edu The iSchool http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE97 0C57 0843 F3EB 49A1 0CD0 8E0C D0BE C838 CCB5 _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds Fergie (Sep 21)
- Re: [privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds Brian Loe (Sep 21)
- Re: [privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds Dave Dittrich (Sep 21)
- Re: [privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds Brian Loe (Sep 21)
- Re: [privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds Dave Dittrich (Sep 21)
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- Re: [privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds Gregory Hicks (Sep 21)
- Re: [privacy] Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds Brian Loe (Sep 21)