Quote by Jim Garrison

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable,

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The quote highlights the misconception and moral criticism surrounding the assumption that investigators resort to bribery for obtaining false testimonies. The author dismisses this belief as both naive and ethically unacceptable. They deny that investigators engage in such practices, rejecting the notion that they travel around with money to bribe witnesses into lying on the witness stand. The statement emphasizes that this approach is not a part of their operational framework.

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