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But wasn't the settlement supposed to be secret and got leaked out? I mean whenever I hear people complain its people complaining about the government settlement being secretive and not letting a court decide - even if he would get more money.
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I'm not sure. Obviously the
fact of the settlement couldn't be kept a secret, because the whole "a minute ago he was suing the government and now he's not and they're issuing an apology to him" would have made it kind of obvious... but perhaps the dollar amount was supposed to be confidential? I may have missed something there. To me, that doesn't seem like the central issue, though.
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Me personally I am in between a rock and a hard place. Guy went through some ####, does he deserve money? I don't know. Feds got lots of money so I don't really care either way to be honest.
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As for whether he deserves money, that's not the issue either. I am totally fine with the intuitive reaction that he doesn't deserve a dime. You can reasonably defend that view. To me that's beside the point: the law is the law, and the government wasting millions of dollars on a losing cause is, as Makarov says, bad governing.