re: Miles and Mathieu talked via telephone last night

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when asked Friday, "is this permanent?", why would Miles respond with "Yes."? It was the second or so question by a reporter.

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Is what permanent? It's a Clinton like what is the meaning of what, but it's important to know what question Miles was really answering and only he knows. Privacy laws create some really awkward conversations. The most direct way to present this would be to hand out the policy and say this is where we are, but you can't do that.

At that point Miles could have sincerely believed that TM wanted to transfer and had no interest in remaining. So the what Miles could have been answering is TM gone permanently and from his perspective that would be true. To point out the options in policy at that point would be saying what the issue was and he can't do that.

If this is the case, could he have chosen his words more carefully? Yes, but this isn't an everyday occurrence and mistakes of this sort are easily made and only people with agendas get hung up on them.