It was, rather, that they are inevitable, and that for the government to hold speakers liable in damages for inadvertent false statements can have a severe "chilling effect" on their willingness to engage in precisely the sort of "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open" public discourse that our democracy needs.
"It becomes, in a inadvertent way, a statement on the 'cattywompusness' – to use a good southern word – of our mental healthcare system," he says.
Unfortunately, the announcement of Mayer's personal decision on her maternity leave (she's taking just "a few weeks") has also ended up becoming an inadvertent and sad statement about what it means to be female, successful and powerful in America today.
I would like to thank him for that statement and his inadvertent support of Mark Green".
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the intelligence community, did not address specific aspects of the surveillance problems but said in a statement that "when inadvertent mistakes are made, we take it very seriously and work immediately to correct them".
After publication of this article [ 1], it was learned that there was an inadvertent omission of the following statement acknowledging the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine funding, which supported Eric Manheimer's work on this article: Eric Manheimer was funded by Grant Number R24 AT001293 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).
"In order to achieve his ends, Dr. Lee had to override default mechanisms that were designed to prevent any accidental or inadvertent movement of those files," the statement said.
But soon enough, the concept of what came to be known as a "gaffe" migrated far, far away from Kinsley's original observation about politicians' inadvertent truth-telling to include any statement from any politician that could be weaponized to extract a penny's worth of pain, like a shillelagh of unintended consequences.
Even though Sandia had contacted reporters with those criticisms, the statement today called their release inadvertent.
