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I never understand this criticism. Do people actually expect intelligence sources to go publicly on the record ?
by threeseed 5y ago
I never understand this criticism.
Do people actually expect intelligence sources to go publicly on the record ?
- monocasa 5y agoIt's more that intelligence sources know better than to talk to the press unless told to, so it's nearly always for propaganda purposes. My experience is that the veracity of these claims are at best a coin flip.
- threeseed 5y agoThere is a wide variety of intelligence sources. Marco Rubio is privy to classified material and doesn't answer to the Biden administration.
- monocasa 5y agoAnd? He has his own propaganda he's trying to push and probably wouldn't be against outright lying either if it wouldn't be publicly traced back to him.
- oh_sigh 5y agoNo, but you have no idea what game the anonymous source is playing. Maybe they're telling the truth. Maybe they're telling a lie that will help them in some manner. Maybe they're just misinformed and think they're telling the truth.
- remarkEon 5y agoI think the point is that the public should take what “anonymous intelligence officials” say with enough salt to put the Dead Sea to shame. They might be right, they might be wrong, and they’re probably lying.
- astrange 5y agoThey've been successfully telling us everything Russia is doing a week ahead of time for months now.