Sunday, June 26, 2016

Kissinger: "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer."

Kissinger: "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer."



During a secret meeting on March 10, 1975 in the Turkish Capital of Ankara with Mehli Esenbel, Turkey's Foreign Minister, Kissinger, then Secretary of State and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, told Esenbel: 
Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer." [laughter]  But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that. 

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