From: Monte Davis 

"Mark"  wrote:

>Yup. Boils down to: hell yes we were spying, same as we have been for 60
>years, but the money we sent to this and that cause has no relationship to
>same. 

Yup. Always handy to pretend money isn't fungible.

Kinda like "the $1.8 billion Saddam skimmed in bribes and kickbacks
from Oil-for-Food was Bad Scandalous Money, but the $11 billion he made
smuggling oil outside it -- primarily to Turkey and Jordan, with US
knowledge and approval -- was Not-Worth-Mentioning Money."

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