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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Edwin Meese
Message-ID: <4740@alice.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 14:08:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 24 14:08:12 1985
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> To start it off,  Edwin Meese as the Attorney General is a JOKE.   Just about
> any schmuck off the street could do a better job.  Example: recently (w/n the
> year) he was attacking the Due Process clause of the 5th amendment.
> He wanted to pretty much do away with the right to an attorney, ect.  His
> reasoning?  Here is a paraphrase " why should we provide these rights to
> people who are under investigation?  If they were innocent they wouldn't
> BE under investigation."  The man simply is a legal fool.
>
> Meese is an issue that all parts of the political spectrum should agree on.
> The sooner he resigns the better.  Our basic rights, esp the 5th amendment,
> should not be messed with.
>
>	Well?
>
>	Tom Hill

Well, tell us what he said, not your interpretation of what he said.
And tell us your sources, so that we can verify it for ourselves if we wish.

It is indeed hard to imagine that an Attorney General would make a statement
such as you attribute to him.  It is, in fact, much easier to imagine that
he said something else but what he said got changed somewhere along the
way.