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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (20588)	8/4/2001 12:44:58 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Of course, once an accusation is made, I don't know how you prove it's not true other than by producing enough information to demonstrate who was there. This is, of course, a standard technique in certain forms of sophistry and law enforcement. If I don't want to tell you what I was doing Saturday night, all you have to do is accuse me of being somewhere else and say I can prove I wasn't there by saying where I was. If I refuse, you say that I have failed to refute the accusation, so the presumption is that it's true. So to protect my honor I may have to reveal something I didn't want you to know and which you had no right to know in the first place. If Cheney really did have nobody but government officials there, it's nobody else's business who was there. Should someone be able to weasel out this information just by accusing him of having non-government personnel there? Or is it their obligation first to produce a non-government person who was there before making the accusation? Or at least produce credible evidence that such a person was there, maybe because she told a friend she was there? Neither of us knows what happened, of course. But I see enough of such tactics in court that I don't like them there, or anywhere.