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To: mrsmith
Your reply to the Judge generally reflects my feelings on the pro side of this matter, but my FOI hairs on the back of my neck still stood up and tingled.

I think sometimes the making of the sausage is a messy business and often misunderstood by casual observers. I do believe that the sausage making should be revealed at a time after the sausage makers have retired. I think this would satisfy the history buffs and protect the current and future civil servants who are already reluctant to serve largely because of risky potential legal expenses. I hope I have chosen the proper stance because I hate for Mr. Bill to get away with anything more than he allready has.

21 posted on 11/16/2001 1:24:02 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: wirestripper
Free Republic is certainly the only place I could find someone else willing to put the Constitution of our founders above popular desires.

Something should be done about the secrecy of our huge, huge, Federal government.
Letting the Legislative branch intrude so dramatically into the Executive is not the answer. No way will the supreme Court uphold the PRA.
The beauty of an amendment is that it could apply to the Legislative Branch also, it is no accident that the Congress hasn't passed a law to expose their inner workings.
The only other Constitutional option I see is to have a standard for release so generous that a president would be impeached for fighting it and after Clinton, I don't much care for that option.

27 posted on 11/16/2001 1:24:50 PM PST by mrsmith
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