Spinning

[legalmoose]

Rule #1 (of talking to your oversight committees) - Never admit that you made a mistake, unless it's really, really obvious that you screwed up.

In that vein I was just telling someone how to spin something so that we told other folks that the first set of numbers was correct, and then something happened (as it did) and now we're giving them an updated set of numbers to reflect the new, higher level of authority in the account. Which we should have known about, and should have reported the first time we handed up numbers, but which we did not in fact report.

Oopsie.

I think the language we came up with is sufficiently neutral to keep us out of trouble.

I love being a lawyer (seriously - this is the fun side of lawyering - playing with words).

Comments

[scorpiocub.livejournal.com]

hey mr lawyer, ummm...is it really a good idea to post this so publicaly>?!>!?!

[legalmoose]

It's sufficiently vague that it's not traceable back to my Big Government Agency (which is the only way I ever refer to where I work), nor does it say anything that's incriminating in any way on me or the BGA.