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If you think about it, blackmail must be one of the primary tools in real politics. Relatively cheap and a perfect carrot-and-stick: play ball and you can keep
by vearwhershuh 7y ago
If you think about it, blackmail must be one of the primary tools in real politics. Relatively cheap and a perfect carrot-and-stick: play ball and you can keep doing what you are doing, go rogue and we ruin your life.
Funny that it never came up in any of my civics classes.
- walrus01 7y agoIf you ever formally study intelligence gathering and counterintelligence it will come up a lot.
- dano 7y agoMalcom Nance will describe the MICE acronym in this commonwealth podcast where C is coercion https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/podcast/malcolm-nance-plot-betray-america https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/podcast/malc...
- walrus01 7y agohttps://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol.-57-no.-1-a/vol.-57-no.-1-a-pdfs/Burkett-MICE%20to%20RASCALS.pdf https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
- ncmncm 7y agoIndeed, extortion is the major value in any surveillance system. It is a central admitted activity of spooks, used to "turn" "assets", and then to keep them producing. It is a central activity of the FBI, and prosecutors, with admitted use to "turn" witnesses, and even drive them into life-threatening situations while "wired" with audio, and lately video recorders or transmitters. Of course the uses admitted in public are far from the only uses. You can be harmed with information not even about you. It could be about a relative, or a relative of a prosecutor, or a judge, or landlord. Try to imagine the power available to Google, Facebook, Amazon, AT&T, and Sprint over the employees of the legal system and over politicians, and their staffs, on the basis of their detailed data collections, including live audio and images.