But it's nothing like what we had before Sarbanes-Oxley.

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The experiments he was doing were not about how to transfer television to the Web, but rather, here's the Web, here are these tools we've never had before, what can we do that's interesting with them?

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That's why we need rules of the road that are different from what we had in September of 2008 and before that that created that environment.

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We had to systematically put into play a number of things before people understood what we were doing.

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The point he has made in his energy speech and his statements about our need to address our long-term energy future is that there are no short-term fixes to this problem, and it is -- that are sustainable or dramatic because -- and this is what he addressed and talked about before, that we had a spike in 2008.

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What comes to mind first is that the preconceptions we had of Glass before actually using it are largely irrelevant.

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So what I said before about a willingness for a couple of days if we had an agreement and needed to, because of all the procedural things you need to go through in Congress to get something done, that that potential remains.

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But we caught up with him shortly before he left his post, and here's what he had to say about the music that kept him moving.

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Well, you know what, we had a terrible recession and shed so many jobs so fast that we had lost 4 million jobs before I came into office.

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"As things unfold we will know more about what is being put in place by the IPL, but having been back to India before Christmas the security we had felt pretty good and at this stage I'm continuing as normal, " he added.

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"During the Nuremburg trials, part of what made us different was even after these Nazis had performed atrocities that no one had ever seen before, we gave them a day in court that taught the entire world about who we are, but also about principles of the rule of law, " he said.

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And he gives testimony completely at variance with what the secretary of defense had said the day before, at variance with what he heard from the station chief in Tripoli, and with everything we had heard.

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