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[privacy] U.S. Attorney General Mukasey Has Orwellian Inspiration
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:37:19 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Boston Globe (Reuters). [snip] The top law enforcement official said on Friday he keeps in his office a portrait of George Orwell, whose book "1984" envisioned a futuristic technology security state overseen by a prying "Big Brother." But the inspiration comes from Orwell's writing style, not the dystopian world the English writer depicted, an aide said. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, in his first extensive meeting with reporters since taking office in November, said he selected two portraits for his office, the first being Robert Jackson, a former Supreme Court Justice, U.S. attorney general and Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor. [snip] More: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/01/25/law_enforc ement_chief_has_orwellian_inspiration/ Wow. You can't even make this stuff up... - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHmo7Iq1pz9mNUZTMRAqFKAJ9wzx9jSwP3fU9uyirpesDNw4+iPACgz0BZ K98rO8Ws1bOp6IjqaTRn8f0= =Jb7v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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