Engelmayer, in his decision Monday on the Maxwell-related transcripts, quoted a 1973 legal ruling, which said that “the policy that ‘proceedings before a grand jury shall generally remain secret’ is ‘older than our Nation itself.’ ”
There are a lot of policies older than the US that we’ve agreed are bad, that’s not a very good point in of itself. Appeal to tradition or whatever. Not saying there aren’t good reasons why that’s so, I’m saying the reasons should be the answer, which he might as well have said, but wasn’t in the article.
There are a lot of policies older than the US that we’ve agreed are bad, that’s not a very good point in of itself. Appeal to tradition or whatever. Not saying there aren’t good reasons why that’s so, I’m saying the reasons should be the answer, which he might as well have said, but wasn’t in the article.