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To: Fred Mertz
What we have here; is a failure to communicate.

The Govt talking heads are saying things in the language of X42 and a lot of posters are reacting to the weasel words.

We have had eight years of the clintons' language meant to misdirect, spin and lie to us about govt events.

If it sounds like spin and weasel words, I am going to take it as that.

The NTSB probably doesn't know yet and neither do I.

I just wish they could be a little more forth coming in the statements, but I recognize that the media dictates the terms.

45 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:37 PM PST by razorback-bert
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To: razorback-bert
"weasel words"

I don't think they are using weasel words, I think the public is misinterpreting what they are saying. If they say, at the outset of the investigation, that "there is no evidence of terrorist involvement," they mean that quite literally: at this point in time there is no evidence of terrorism. That is not the same as saying "we can categorically state there was no terrorist involvement," but that is how many people interpret it. The government has not ruled out terrorism, they have just said that right now there is no evidence of it.
53 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:40 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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