" Her backup singers in the Gospel Queens plead ignorance: "I don't know, I don't know.

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Policymakers in those days could at least plead ignorance in their disastrous decisions.

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We can plead ignorance, mope or complain, or we can see in Hurricane Irene the inspiration for a new energy age.

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Some unethical firms are merely opportunistic and will plead ignorance if caught.

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If Andersen is found actually to have advised on the design of Enron's off-balance-sheet vehicles, as the company implies, it will find it hard to plead ignorance over their construction.

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Yet he cannot plead ignorance of the Senate's workings.

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Yet since his subordinate, former CIA Director General David Petraeus, recently testified before a congressional intelligence committee that his agency knew terrorists were responsible from the very beginning, he can hardly plead ignorance of that same information.

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So, either James Murdoch has to continue to plead ignorance, opening himself to the charge that he's the sort of guy who writes massive cheques without knowing why or asking questions which could and should have revealed what had really been going on.

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