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If they did do it, they'd just keep quiet. When POTUS proves it, they just smile smugly. To say they didn't, and then get found to have done, will be infinite
by willvarfar 10y ago
If they did do it, they'd just keep quiet. When POTUS proves it, they just smile smugly.
To say they didn't, and then get found to have done, will be infinitely worse.
It just makes no sense.
- louthy 10y agoIndeed, there's nothing to be gained from denying it. They could have kept totally quiet, and everyone would just assume 'that's what spy agencies do'. A denial, especially in these very strong terms, never happens.
- _yosefk 10y agoIt wasn't infinitely bad for James Clapper to have lied under oath about NSA's data collection. It wasn't infinitely bad for the US to have been caught spying on Merkel. Etc. etc. Everybody spies on everybody, everybody accuses everybody, everybody lies about both, gets caught and mostly doesn't care. The allegations prove just as much as the denials - nothing. Eventually one side will be caught lying, and nothing will happen to them.