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And in some cases they seem to be skating close to the edge of propriety, if not the law.
Before that, White House officials complained, they got nothing from the FBI-and were told that they were being deliberately kept out of the loop on grounds of propriety.
While that line of reasoning can be taken too far--and has in the most recent case with the Arlington plots--I do believe Michael Kinsley circa 1987 was right to say that high officials should observe standards of propriety which surpass the merely legal.
The Times story has this juicy detail indicating that there were some worries inside the campaign about the scheme's propriety: During the campaign, senior Clinton aide Harold Ickes pressed for an indemnification clause in the media consultants' contract that would have forced the consultants to pay any fines levied if the plan was found to be illegal.
This description recognizes that as yet unalienated land might have been used as wild pasture, just as an 1867 critic of bureaucratese can complain that the Crown lands are very frequently, in Government phrase, styled the waste lands of the Crown... [though] they cannot... with propriety be called waste lands, for they are applied to the only purpose, speaking of them in general, to which they can ever be applied--grazing.