Re:Watchdog uses open-source research to investigate Sri Lan...
by hndamien on Saturday June 18, 2022 @03:57PM
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Great point! It’s great to be aware of this, and I would argue that it is still better than a lie, you just have to know you are observing a black hole (seeing something due to the effects around it)
One way is to intentionally be ignorant of the facts and give an uniformed opinion that fits your agenda.
Take the letter from the 51 former senior intelligence officers who cast doubt on the Hunter Biden laptop.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9...
"We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal aSorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -"
Reading the letter, you see that they don't say that the laptop is misinformation, or that the emails are fake. Only that, without attempting to verify the evidence available, they suspect it is fake because it is Russia's MO.
Why would people who make their career from verifying intelligence evidence not look at the actual evidence? Not attempt to verify before assessing it. So they don't have to lie about it.