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Here is the text of his e mail:

cheap jordans mens size 9 The words right to know cheap air force should be “right to know”. I was referring to a constitutional or judicial “right to know”. The idea of a “right” is often misused because right is a “must”, a “requirement”. There is no requirement in the US Constitution or any judicial ruling that the public has a right to know, unless that right is granted under the freedom of information and act. Unfortunately, or fortunately, from one’s point of view the FOI would not apply to the Koran flush story until it became part of an official governmental document that was not marked “secret”, “top secret” or perhaps “confidential”. cheap jordans mens size 9

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