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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:57:22 -0800
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- From: Andy Freeman <andy@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU>
- Subject: Re: well, pardon me!, Version 5
- In-Reply-To: <9212301642.AA00599@wizard.netx.com>
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- >> One additional point: over the weekend Weinberger said that when he said
- >> that the deal was illegal, he didn't know that the President had
- >> secretly issued a "Finding" basically allowing such a transaction.
- >
- >My point is that that President Reagan said specifically that
- >given a choice between doing something illegal and not doing anything
- >about the hostages, he would choose the illegality.
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- So? Is "willing to break the law" a crime? I'm willing to commit
- murder in some situations - am I criminal before I actually do so?
- Suppose I kill someone - does my willingness to break the law affect
- the legality of that action or does the legality turn only on the
- circumstances of that killing. (It is possible to kill legally.)
-
- >Further, according to Weinberger's note, at that particular meeting,
- >Reagan agreed that what he was doing was illegal.
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- Yet, the finding made it legal.
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- Or, is Reagan guilty because he could have broken the law?
-
- -andy
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