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If Russia or China exposes some crime that my government hid from me I will thank those governments and act to remove the corrupt officials from my own governme
by sthnblllII 6y ago
If Russia or China exposes some crime that my government hid from me I will thank those governments and act to remove the corrupt officials from my own government. You are implicitly arguing Americans should allow corrupt government officials be above the law.
- Barrin92 6y agono, what I'm arguing is that you may not know if you get selective information, potentially taken out of context, to advocate some cause that's actually harming the national interest. Pretty trivial example, create a leak or scandal about a relatively minor issue that discredits a candidate that would have threatened the interests of China or Russia.
- mariusor 6y ago> what I'm arguing is that you may not know if you get selective information, potentially taken out of context, to advocate some cause that's actually harming the national interest. Of course you can know: you _always_ get out of context, selective information. But the thing to do for a good faith government when this happens is to provide context, not to silence the people that provided the information.