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Re:Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked The Pentagon Papers, Is Dead ... by AnthonyMouse on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:32AM (#36367855)
It's all still susceptible to the same principle. You think Prime Minister Blah is having an affair because the French translators with the highest clearance you're using haven't been watching a particular children's television show and so are unknowingly mistranslating the references to it in the transcript. If the tape had been released on the internet some schoolteacher in Canada would have pointed that out.
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Re:Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked The Pentagon Papers, Is Dead ... by kortilla on Sunday June 18, 2023 @01:07PM (#36382099)
You’re overthinking it. Information is rarely that complex. “Here’s footage from a hidden camera in a private jet of a prime minister banging his mistress”.
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Re:Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked The Pentagon Papers, Is Dead ... by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:26AM (#36405396)
> Information is rarely that complex.

Information is always that complex. "Intelligence" is a bunch of rumors and innuendo that get mushed together into an analyst's report.

Even when you have what you believe to be incontrovertible evidence, because this is spy shit you have the possibility of a foreign intelligence service finding your hidden camera and using it to feed you whatever they like. And the fewer eyes you have on it, the less likely you are to discover the inconsistency with reality.

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