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To: Ilaine who wrote (118157)	6/4/2005 5:47:13 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

I shred anyting I am going to throw away that I wouldn't want John Q. Public reading in their evening newspaper. But shredding drafts, messed up photocopies, etc. is a far different thing from shredding the only copy of a document that under your organization's policies should be retained. If W were routinely shredding all copies of any memos he didn't want read by the public, do you have any doubt that there would be a public outcry? And we must keep in mind that the ACLU pushes other corporations to retain documents even if they may be damaging to the organization. Shouldn't they follow the principles they recommend to others? That's the real issue for me. If they as an organization told Arthur Anderson, Enron, etc. we think it's fine for you to shred anything that might be embarrassing or incriminating, then they would have the perfect right to do the same. But it's not that way!