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Re:Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests by bjourne on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @04:39AM (#5898180)
Couldn't it just be laziness? Is it customary to clean up someones speeched transcript so that it reads better in written form?
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Re:Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests by thaumasiotes on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @11:19AM (#5899731)
It's not just customary; it is very much against standard practice not to do it. You want to see what people actually say? The Nixon tape transcripts famously didn't clean the speech.
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