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- From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael Edelman)
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- Subject: Re: Does Clinton Know ?
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- Date: 25 Jun 1996 18:52:48 GMT
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- Cluster User (cluster_user@yale.edu) wrote:
-
- : Well, the real question is: did Carter lie about there being "no secret files",
- : or was he duped into believing there were none? Because, of course, now we all
- : know that there are/were plenty of them- in large part thanks to the Freedom of
- : Information Act.
-
- : Any way you look at it, the Carter issue is interesting. I can't really decide
- : which way it went, maybe it was a mixture of both. My best guess is that he
- : must have been denied access to them by a government worried about this new
- : renegade president claiming he's going to open the vault doors to military
- : secrets.
-
- So your argument is basically....a guess, based on no evidence, just
- your idle speculation?
-
- Par for the course.
-
- That seems likely, because I think at some level of government there
- : are strategies to deal with the temporary nature of individuals elected to the
- : presidency,
-
- More idle speculation.
-
- to keep these individuals isolated from certain information deemed
- : too important for any transient to know about. That would be realistic, since
- : presidents are an unpredictable ingredient in otherwise stable government
- : control structure. Any guy off the streets could theoretically become
- : president... yes, even a commie! If even wackos loners like J.E. Hoover could
- : get a grip on presidents, imagine what a group of generals or some other people
- : of power working backstage within the government could do, or have done. They
- : could build an inpenetrable inner control structure, and may have. The real
- : question is, what would keep them from doing it?
-
- : I know, many people think this is "conspiracy talk"- we've been trained well.
-
- Quick! Behind you! Rosicrusians!
-
- --mike
-
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