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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Edwin Meese
Message-ID: <754@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Dec-85 19:14:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 25 19:14:12 1985
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References: <446@ssc-bee.UUCP> <4740@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
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Summary: 

In article <4740@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> 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.
>>
>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.

I didn't post the original, but the quote attributed to Meese is essentially
verbatim.  You can check it out yourself in the "Justice Under Reagan" (what
an oxymoron) issue of U.S. News And World Report.  I no longer have the issue,
but the cover date was sometime in October or November of this year.

AWR