[SPOCAHP ANAR]

An interesting read; sounds like his employers hung him out to dry.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...v=rss_politics

[troy2000]

Quote:       Originally Posted by SPOCAHP ANAR

An interesting read; sounds like his employers hung him out to dry. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...v=rss_politics

If that article is an acurate portrayal of events, they screwed him just to get a scalp to hang from their anti-terrorist belt, without caring what he actually had done or what his intentions had been.

It reminds me of the Doctor who was sentenced for setting John Wilkes Booth's leg, even though he hadn't known he was treating Lincoln's assassin.

[Dallas]

I agree with Troy2000, I wonder if that article is truly accurate. If it is he is getting royally screwed. But I really wonder if we're getting the whole story.

[BattleRifleG3]

When I read the title of this thread, I suspected something very different. A mistranslation was responsible to a great extent for the French and Indian War. Essentially, in the capitulation negotiations at Fort Necessity, the French wanted Washington to admit that a Lord Jumonville, who had been killed in a skirmish with English allied Indians, had in fact been targeted and assassinated. Washington's translator, a Dutchman by birth, translated the French word for assassination into simply killing. Washington believed he was only acknowledging the death in combat of Lord Jumonville, while in the French language he was admitting to having had him deliberately assassinated. This caused him quite a bit of trouble when he returned to Virginia, and was a great big step that ensured a full scale war to ensue.

In another F&I War story, a snotty French bigot may have well sealed the fate of the French empire in North America by expressing contempt for the Iroquois Indians while at a trade summit where it was his job to win their favor as much as possible.

[wirehunt]

You'd hope that case ends up at the surpreme court if the facts are true, or rather the lack of facts.

[Rufus Rhastus J]

it does seem very disturbing. But, as bushy would tell you, "it's a dangerous time we live in. This is why we have the patriot act!" Yeah, so it can be abused...