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A comment on Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022. Parent comment

Re:Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022 by aunty_helen on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:12AM (#30221139)
If you're going to declassify something, I would expect at least a document on official letter head, with any level of restricted clearance being crossed out and a declassified stamp over top. Then to give substance, they would need to add the title of this hn post "Russia to use crisis actors to stage a flag annd start was in days" as the content of that document.
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Re:Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022 by hashimotonomora on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:22AM (#30221247)
In essence it’s the same. You just seem to respect written documents more.
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Re:Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022 by aunty_helen on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:30AM (#30221340)
So does the Associated Press it seems, as per the exchange during the press conference.

But yes, I would probably want some form of intelligence briefing being declassified in paper form before pointing the finger at a nuclear adversary. That ol' extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence thing.

Or do you think that some spy in Russia, telephoned a guy in the pentagon, that telephoned a guy in the whitehouse, that setup a press conference and then telephoned a guy to brief him about something he should say, that may or may not help to provoke a war?

Seems a bit far fetched.

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Re:Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022 by SantalBlush on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:49AM (#30221578)
No, the reporter explicity said, "It's not the format, it's the content." They were looking for evidence, they didn't care whether it was written or not.
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Re:Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022 by r721 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:32AM (#30221360)
Why did you bring up HN post title? It's not in the briefing, seems to be OP's (quite exaggerated) summary. Price's words: "We don’t know if Russia will necessarily use this or another option in the coming days."
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Re:Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022 by aunty_helen on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:36AM (#30221408)
Ok from the first paragraph of the press briefing then, I would expect a document with at least the following:

>Russia is planning to stage fabricated attacks by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces as a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine.

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