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...former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV had travelled to Niger for the CIA to investigate for Cheney whether the allegations contained in the documents were true. Upon his return, Wilson had offered an assessment to American government officials, which was, in his words, “very unequivocal?? in its assertion that the allegations were false. The CIA then would have briefed Cheney’s office orally or in writing, according to Wilson’s op-ed in the New York Times. Nevertheless, on Jan. 28, 2003, President Bush said in his State...
Their repeated appeals to this premise render their arguments entirely question-begging. For example, they state that the Fourth Amendment’s ban against “unreasonable” searches and seizures is “unequivocal??—yet the Framers’ textual appeal to “reasonableness” as the standard to judge such intrusions evinces a committment to pragmatic analysis that belies Debartolo and Freinberg’s dogmatism...