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Re:Just Say No by mercurialshark on Friday April 28, 2017 @04:37PM (#14222862)
As an attorney myself, I wonder if you are insinuating that participating in lawful government programs conducted by DoD or the IC, like SIGINT or cyber warfare operations amounts to professional misconduct (edit)?

By that logic, providing legal counsel to any number of federal government departments or agencies is a violation of professional conduct. Which, of course, it is not.

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Re:Just Say No by maxerickson on Friday April 28, 2017 @04:41PM (#14222891)
A lawful program can be immoral and participating in it probably is going to inherit that problem.

You seem not to admit that possibility in your phrasing.

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Re:Just Say No by mercurialshark on Friday April 28, 2017 @04:43PM (#14222903)
No. I'm speaking to professional misconduct. Touching on their point, that a professional conduct regulatory body would not preclude participating in the precise activities they reference as unethical.
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Re:Just Say No by maxerickson on Friday April 28, 2017 @04:45PM (#14222928)
Your edited comment is harder to misread.
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