Introduced by SenatorsEdward Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, it would make it harder for this or future administrations to use a flimsy state secrets claim to avoid exposure of illegal or embarrassing conduct.
Now, it may be that this happened because everyone in the U.S. suddenly realized just how flimsy the state of the economy was.
Surely, neither our politicians nor our society have evolved to such a state of flimsy pretense that the mere mouthing of choice words from a school yard dictionary is sufficient to absolve people from their transgressions.
The point is, you dig into this Israeli media criticism, and it rests on these flimsy assumptions about the psychological state of the Hamas leadership.
Grace Dent had some fun with her name in State of Grace – a flimsy enough premise you might think, but she really made it work.
(Of course, any attempt to prove spying would likely be met by a flimsy claim of state secrecy).
Ms. Thurber's well-intentioned but flimsy one-act play at the Rattlestick Theater requires its four characters to maintain a state of emotional tension that would challenge the collective membership of the Actors Studio.
The true state of the economy, however, remained well hidden, even as it teetered on a flimsy base of fraud, inflated stocks, and bank-created debt.
Yet it is a flimsy line of argument.
