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So, you're listening to the people to said Iraq had WMDs?

cowmoo728 6y ago
I don't take anything the three letter agencies say at face value. But if I were Twitter leadership and legal and I got a call from the CIA or NSC saying my platform is being used right now for a massive GRU disinformation campaign, I would panic and attempt to shut it down.
lanstin 6y ago
No, the Republicans have definitely lost credibility. I think it’s a safe prior that anything a Republican says about weird convoluted plots this close to an election should be discounted.
- rightbyte 6y ago
  Why would a well thought out plot be more credible? Is it inconceivable that a crack addict forgets his laptop at a repair store and that the staff recognize him? If I made up stories they would be mundane and logical to not make people regard it as improbable.
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  - tomjakubowski 6y ago
    You're saying that the more outlandish a story is the less likely it is made up, because anyone making up a story would just make it boring so as to be believable. Have you never talked to someone who was making up a story?
    - rightbyte 6y ago
      One example of an outlandish information story is how the passport(s) of 911 hijackers was found on the ground in NY. I mean you can't make this stuff up. It should mostly be the information on the HD that indicates the validity, not the fantastic way it was recovered.
the_why_of_y 6y ago
This is incorrect. The 3 letter agencies refused to say this, which is why Paul Wolfowitz had to create the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon so that there was an intelligence agency that produced the sort of analysis results that the White House wanted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans
- monocasa 6y ago
  No, the CIA said there was > High Confidence: > • Iraq is continuing and in some areas expanding, its chemical, biological, nuclear and missile programs contrary to UN resolutions. https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-full-version-of-the-cias-2002-intelligence-assessment-on-wmd-in-iraq-2015-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-full-version-of-th...

I don't take anything the three letter agencies say at face value. But if I were Twitter leadership and legal and I got a call from the CIA or NSC saying my platform is being used right now for a massive GRU disinformation campaign, I would panic and attempt to shut it down.

lanstin 6y ago

No, the Republicans have definitely lost credibility. I think it’s a safe prior that anything a Republican says about weird convoluted plots this close to an election should be discounted.

rightbyte 6y ago
Why would a well thought out plot be more credible? Is it inconceivable that a crack addict forgets his laptop at a repair store and that the staff recognize him? If I made up stories they would be mundane and logical to not make people regard it as improbable.
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- tomjakubowski 6y ago
  You're saying that the more outlandish a story is the less likely it is made up, because anyone making up a story would just make it boring so as to be believable. Have you never talked to someone who was making up a story?
  - rightbyte 6y ago
    One example of an outlandish information story is how the passport(s) of 911 hijackers was found on the ground in NY. I mean you can't make this stuff up. It should mostly be the information on the HD that indicates the validity, not the fantastic way it was recovered.

the_why_of_y 6y ago

This is incorrect. The 3 letter agencies refused to say this, which is why Paul Wolfowitz had to create the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon so that there was an intelligence agency that produced the sort of analysis results that the White House wanted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans

monocasa 6y ago
No, the CIA said there was > High Confidence: > • Iraq is continuing and in some areas expanding, its chemical, biological, nuclear and missile programs contrary to UN resolutions. https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-full-version-of-the-cias-2002-intelligence-assessment-on-wmd-in-iraq-2015-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-full-version-of-th...