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If you're going to declassify something, I would expect at least a document on official letter head, with any level of restricted clearance being crossed out an
by aunty_helen 5y ago
If you're going to declassify something, I would expect at least a document on official letter head, with any level of restricted clearance being crossed out and a declassified stamp over top. Then to give substance, they would need to add the title of this hn post "Russia to use crisis actors to stage a flag annd start was in days" as the content of that document.
- hashimotonomora 5y agoIn essence it’s the same. You just seem to respect written documents more.
- aunty_helen 5y agoSo does the Associated Press it seems, as per the exchange during the press conference. But yes, I would probably want some form of intelligence briefing being declassified in paper form before pointing the finger at a nuclear adversary. That ol' extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence thing. Or do you think that some spy in Russia, telephoned a guy in the pentagon, that telephoned a guy in the whitehouse, that setup a press conference and then telephoned a guy to brief him about something he should say, that may or may not help to provoke a war? Seems a bit far fetched.
- SantalBlush 5y agoNo, the reporter explicity said, "It's not the format, it's the content." They were looking for evidence, they didn't care whether it was written or not.
- r721 5y agoWhy did you bring up HN post title? It's not in the briefing, seems to be OP's (quite exaggerated) summary. Price's words: "We don’t know if Russia will necessarily use this or another option in the coming days."
- aunty_helen 5y agoOk from the first paragraph of the press briefing then, I would expect a document with at least the following: >Russia is planning to stage fabricated attacks by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces as a pretext for a further invasion of Ukraine.