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To: zzeeman
It was a private contract direct from POTUS.

...a contract for secret services during the war made between the President and the claimant.

He was a military HUMINT asset during the Civil War.

118 posted on 02/28/2018 12:32:50 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36
OK, yes, I saw that part.

"We have no difficulty at to the authority of the President in the matter. He was undoubtedly authorized during the war, as commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States, to employ secret agents to enter the rebel lines and obtain information respecting the strength, resources, and movements of the enemy, and contracts to compensate such agents are so far binding upon the government as to render it lawful for the President to direct payment of the amount stipulated out of the contingent fund under his control."

Thanks.

120 posted on 02/28/2018 12:39:40 PM PST by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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