On 2/7/06, Autoplectic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So if there are multiple readings > of a text that's bad? See N.Y. Times, Feb. 7, 2006, p. 1: Reading the same text (and, at that, limiting themselves to "text" as written verbal expression and not addressing the broader senses of that term that provided so much fun for Derrida), the 1978 FISA statute and the 2001 congressional resolution authorizing the Pres. to use force, etc., both Atty. Gen. Gonzales and Sen. Spector agreed that the meaning of the law was obvious. It was just that, to Gonzales (or at least he said), it was obvious that the two enactments 'compliment each other'" whereas, to Spector (or at least he said), Gonzales' reading "defies logic and plain English".
