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Re: Sucking Sound...
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 06:30:27PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> At 8:35 AM -0800 1/23/98, Jonathan Wienke wrote:
>
> >Has anyone else heard a "giant sucking sound" from the vicinity of the
> >White House lately?
>
> If that was an intentional pun, a good one.
>
> But I had been marveling at how the Clinton troubles were being ignored by
> the Cypherpunks...I figured we were all so jaded about government and the
> criminals who flourish in Washington that there was no point in commenting
> on this latest revelation of corruption. (The apparent perjury, suborning
> perjury, and witness-tampering, not the affair with Lewinsky, however
> tawdry it was.)
>
> It would have been interesting to see the whole process leading up to
> Clinton's resignation (next week?) pass without any discussion by us.
>
> (Actually, I threw in an aside yesterday about "President Gore," but no one
> picked up on it.)
>
> Personally, I think having a crippled and ineffective President is better
> than having an activist bozo President Gore, so I'm kind of hoping this
> whole affairs takes several more months to unwind.
Tim has missed the most important part of this whole episode: the fact
that Linda Tripp was wearing a wire, and apparently working for the
FBI. Think for a moment about the position this puts what's his name
in -- you know, the guy who's name begins with an "F", who works for
Janet Reno...
In fact I am amazed that cp's in general haven't picked up on the
potential significance of this. Think back to just a few short weeks
ago, when Freeh and Reno had their little spat...
What do you think about congressional resistance to wiretaps, in
light of current events?
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
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