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24601 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-29-11 08:48 PM
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11. It cuts to the heart of having to prove a negative. Just because
you have no proof should not be accepted as proving the negative. The fact that US SECSTATE has no evidence of Pakistani involvement isn't proof of their innocence. It proves only that she has no evidence, not that it doesn't exist.

This is why in criminal cases that the burden of proof is on the prosecutor - proving a negative can be beyond reason.
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  -Clinton exonerates Pakistan over Osama Bin Laden alp227  May-27-11 06:39 PM   #0 
  - No evidence? How about common sense. I hope this one doesn't  juajen   May-27-11 08:15 PM   #1 
  - see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil from the evil doers - ya can't make this stuff up  2Design   May-27-11 08:29 PM   #2 
  - Cowtowing to terrorists, extortionists and bullshit artists  cosmicone   May-27-11 08:35 PM   #3 
  - Someone must have given her the memo about those convoys going up in flames.  Arctic Dave   May-28-11 11:01 PM   #5 
  - So when are you signing up?  Zhade   May-29-11 09:54 AM   #7 
  - This was Norman Mailer's explanation for why we really invaded Iraq. We  coalition_unwilling   May-29-11 12:58 PM   #10 
  - hilary practicing statecraft.  iemitsu   May-27-11 09:38 PM   #4 
  - This whole war on terror thing is filled with lies at the highest levels.  grahamhgreen   May-29-11 12:56 AM   #6 
  - Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence n/t  24601   May-29-11 12:37 PM   #8 
     - That sounds positively Rumsfeldian of you. Not being snarky, just  coalition_unwilling   May-29-11 12:55 PM   #9 
        - It cuts to the heart of having to prove a negative. Just because  24601   May-29-11 08:48 PM   #11 
 

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