euphemistic use of "exempt" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 17 19:31:56 UTC 2014


On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> "exempt...from"


in place of

"excluded from"

Orwellian, pravda?

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