First, this is a classic oath on oath, he-says-she-says swearing match, that under ordinary custom and practice at the Department of Justice never would be prosecuted without substantial corroborative proof.
One of his election posters invited Croats to have coffee with their would-be president and Mr Mesic has been doing his best to put this invitation into practice by meeting ordinary people as often as possible.
That is a departure from past practice, which barred the agency from storing information about ordinary Americans unless a person was a terror suspect or related to an investigation.
The democratization of cultural debate about what constitutes acceptable practice and what ought to change depends on the economic dignity and financial enfranchisement of ordinary people in as many cultural communities as possible.