And as the meetings, purported to seek out dialogue, were proceeding, hundreds more people were being rounded up to join the 7,000-odd 7,000-oddhuman-rights groups, are already behind bars.
George W Bush has appeared at his first campaign rally for his brother Jeb – but while he purported to set out a positive case for extending his family's legacy in the White House, he reserved his strongest words for barbed attacks against Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
The Bush administration encouraged Arab governments to ban the series because it incorporates ideas from the long discredited "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an anti-Semitic forgery by the czarist secret police that purported to lay out a plan by Jews to dominate the world.
In other cases the fraudsters are purporting to rent out property that doesn't exist, has already been rented out, or has been rented to multiple victims at the same time.
"After a lot of controversy over voter ID, ALEC disbanded its task force that dealt with democracy issues and purported to be out of the business of mucking around with voting laws," said Arn Pearson, general counsel for the Center for Media and Democracy, a group that closely follows ALEC.
This one's not nearly as important as, you know, an entire prototype leaking out — but still, purported leaks are purported leaks.
Instead, it purports to set out a rule by which the Houses of Congress shall determine which electors for President of the United States from a particular State will be entitled to have their votes counted if more than one return purporting to contain the electoral votes of that state is received by the president of the Senate.
Indeed, the last decade has seen a boom in what hospitals and health care companies call "executive physicals" — batteries of screening exams for apparently healthy people, purporting to ferret out hidden disease with the zeal of Homeland Security officers searching for terrorists.
"A commission that purports to speak out on behalf of human rights, that now has Sudan and Libya as members and doesn't have the United States as members, I think may not be perceived as the most powerful advocate of human rights in the world," a White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said.
"Exorbitant loans are justified on the grounds of the value of the product they purport to put out — namely, students that generate income (which then, in theory, enables them to pay off their educational debt)." Tuition-free public universities, aside from the armed-forces colleges, are almost completely obsolete.
