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Let's Talk - SSlater - 07-30-2018 04:13 PM
In the summer of 1865, the Federal Government charged a group of former Rebel Agents with perjury. Why? Because they swore., that they talked to Jacob Thompson, the Chief of the Canadian Office of the Confederacy, on a regular basis. The Federals then proved that Thompson was not in the office during that time.
" So, pay attention, I'm talking to you!"
(Let that phrase set the theme of this blurb.)
If the spies provided frequent reports to Thompson, then they are talking to Thompson, Agree? He doesn't have to reply, in fact, he dose not even have to read the reports, but the agents did "talk" to him.
That was not acceptable, and their true reports were discarded, (because they did not support the Federals' case.)
I swear that this is true. Am I guilty of perjury. (It doesn't support the Federal's claim.)