Quotable quote?

[Wilson Gray]

Charlie, that's about as apt a description of the problem inherent in
allowing the current administration - or any subsequent one - to set
up a special government agency whose purpose is to spy on the American
people.

-Wilson

On 4/12/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> That third hand could be like the third rail on a train track--powerful but dangerous to be near . . . .
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:05:09 -0400
> >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >Subject: Quotable quote?
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> >Quoted in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, 3/11/07, in re arguments against the setting up of a new, Soviet-style (my chracterization) "domestic intelligence service" and attributed to William J. Bratton:
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> >"If the problem before Sept. 11, 2001, was that the right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing, how would a third hand help?"
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> >-Wilson
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