“A federal appeals court has slammed the reliability of U.S. government intelligence documents, saying just because officials keep repeating their assertions does not make them true.
A guard looks over the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in this file photo.
A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington likened the Bush administration’s case to a line in an 1876 nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll: ‘I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.’”
OMFSM, a Federal court is quoting The Hunting of the Snark? Truly I never thought I’d live to see the day.
Not to mention the excellence of the choice, given modern slang. I mean, that’s a pretty snarky comment they made, isn’t it?
For myself, I prefer this version, which I like to think Lewis Carroll would have approved of:
That what I say three times is true is true is true.
Think before you publish a critique of the grammar. Especially if you have a knee-jerk reaction to “That what”.
We should be doing a Boojum countdown for the Bush Admin:
“In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He softly and suddenly vanished away –
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.”
January 20 is Boojum Day!