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It might be the same problem. Candidates get national security briefings so they might have been advised not to deny it.
by mikkergp 6y ago
It might be the same problem. Candidates get national security briefings so they might have been advised not to deny it.
- gnicholas 6y agoI could imagine national security reasons for not saying specifically where one believes the laptop to have come from, but why would the campaign be prevented from simply saying that the emails are fake and that the meeting definitively did not happen?
- nickff 6y agoWell, hypothetically, it could be that the CIA or NSA was spreading misinformation, then tracking its spread, to detect where leaks/spies were. That seems highly unlikely in this case.
- mikkergp 6y agoSaying the emails are fake would be a direct acknowledgment of the incident that the agency is trying to investigate. This is similar to the “Glomar Response”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response.