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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: Weinberger's Pardon
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.164944.9552@eff.org>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:49:44 GMT
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- In article <bhayden.725782011@teal> Bruce Hayden, bhayden@teal.csn.org
- writes:
- >>
- >>Lying to Congress has a long history. Presidents of both parties have
- >>done it as a matter of course. If you criminalize that, you would have
- >>to put FDR, JFK, and LBJ at the head of the list. FDR's lies to congress
- >>got us into the war against Germany.
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- Since current Congressional oversight law was largely shaped in the
- post-Watergate era, the ways in which the executive branch might violate
- the law by lying to Congress are greater now than they were in the
- FDR, JFK, and LBJ eras. (I take it you omitted Nixon for a reason?)
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- --Mike
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