He told how wife Cherie was subjected to a "personal vendetta", claiming while some comment was "legitimate" at times the criticism was taken "too far".
Undoing the tangle has proved vexing for the government, which has little cash and lots of concerns about the social unrest that could result from dislodging thousands of people who acquired land through urban development plans and agrarian reform laws that were legitimate at the time.
At yesterday's hearing, no one asked whether the JEDI partnership was legitimate at that earlier time.
As long as the motivation is the worship of God, any incidental benefits would surely be legitimate, or at least not rule out the act as religiously worthy.
Mr. Brown said the doctors "were legitimate," but, at the same time, "no one was ever in a position to say no" to Mr. Jackson.
"With terrorism, there are no morals," Shalom says, meaning that any measures are legitimate, but, at the end of the film, he expresses serious doubts about what Israel is doing.
While it is beyond the mandate of humanitarians to discuss the merits and shortcomings of the international community's stabilisation efforts, there is legitimate concern at their humanitarian consequences.
In other words, it was legitimate to look at the nexus between the purpose and the effect of an abortion law.
However, Quick's remarks yesterday that the investigation is "legitimate" suggest he at least believes that it still needs to run its course.
"I have no personal or corporate goal to convince the media that we are legitimate," he said at a news conference on Thursday.
