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Old 12-11-2007, 09:20 PM
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Is he ever gonna hit Krazy Kat, or what?
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Originally Posted by Bernard Woolley
The fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, therefore those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt the information he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed.
...You wouldn't happen to work for a civil service, would you?


Good heavens, is he related to Rummy? It's as if it came from the same mind that brought us:

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Originally Posted by Donald Rumsfeld
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.
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