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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: shadowman who wrote (102448)	9/20/2005 1:58:59 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi shadowman; Re: "I had my doubts that he would open up, but he did have a large ego and a biography might have appealed to him." The Chambliss book contains some explanations as to the motivations people had for talking to him. Apparently he was very good at convincing them that he wouldn't publish their names. He said that he would secretly tape an interview, and then at the end, present the interviewee with the tape to destroy or to give to him so that he could be sure to get the story right. I got the impression that most of the people involved felt that they had been forced by circumstances to do what they did and that they felt that they had higher standards. So they talked at least partly to try and explain how it was that they were not responsible for being crooked. -- Carl