On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:35:07 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >I know Chertoff slightly. I think he's being honest. I
> >doh't think he'd tell what he thought to be a lie if
> >prompted ina briefing. He was, among other things, a
> >(really good) US Attorney and a federal appellate
> >judge, two things that give one an allergy to bald
> >faced lying.
>
> Justin, what he's saying just isn't credible. Precisely what
> happened
> in NO was widely forecast. FEMA had to have known it. How could he
> say that they had no idea of the suffering in the convention center
> when it had been all over the TV for days? If he's not lying, he's
> an
> idiot, and you can't be an idiot and be a US attorney, can you?
I don't know but I think that the practicing of law has really clouded Justin's judgment. I think that most of us here realize that lawyers can be and often are liars and crooks. And more than a few are idiots and nitwits too. But sometimes fellow lawyers have a hard time seeing that.
>
> Doug
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