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To: boris_a who wrote (132216)	5/8/2004 7:57:31 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Now Rummy, I am black and I am a Democrat but I want to remind you that Politics has nothing to do with this Hearing. But some underling in one of the many organizations you are responsible for has screwed up real bad and embarrassed us all. So why dont you just give up your brilliant career and tell us you quit- despite the fact you had no knowledge of what was going on" Rummy: "Well of course everyone knows that Politics has nothing to do with this hearing " Sig

To: boris_a who wrote (132216)	5/8/2004 5:04:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Which is why it's a good thing that the photos have come out. We, the people, trusted them to do the right thing, and they didn't, so now we'll have to change things, take away some of the autonomy and freedom we gave the military and the intelligence community and reinstate (or maybe institute) stronger oversight. It's like a pendulum. Sometimes the oversight is too loose, sometimes too strict. Impossible to ever get exactly right. As it's impossible to act without making mistakes. But we do have a system for analyzing and correcting mistakes. My recollection is that Switzerland was entirely too cozy with Hitler and Nazi gold during WWII. I could extrapolate from that set of events that Switzerland is a corrupt country full of corrupt people who profitted from the Holocaust and refused to give up the gold until it was pried from their hands by the use of force. Switzerland, the land of chocolate and cuckoo clocks and evil gnomes who turned their backs on naked orphans and impoverished widows and revelled in stolen gold. Or would that be a little simplistic?