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"Admitted guilt forthrightly" is also suspicious. The principal activity of higher level spooks and investigators is coercing people. Even when they don't have
by pencilguin 4y ago
"Admitted guilt forthrightly" is also suspicious.
The principal activity of higher level spooks and investigators is coercing people. Even when they don't have anything on the coercee, they can have, or claim to have, things on someone one cares about: a spouse, parent, sibling. Spooks are mainly supposed to coerce information delivery. Cops are supposed to coerce confessions and (if necessary, false) testimony.
They may choose to coerce other things, of course, of less interest to their employers. Sociopaths love these jobs.
- ensignavenger 4y agoWhile there is always some chance of that, I know enough about this particular case to say I don't have any reasonable doubt that the person was in fact guilty.
- pencilguin 4y agoYou may be entirely correct in this case, but the result doesn't generalize.
- tablespoon 4y ago> "Admitted guilt forthrightly" is also suspicious. Not really. IMHO, it's pretty common impulse try to apologize when caught doing something in order to get less punishment. An apology is often effectively a confession. > The principal activity of higher level spooks and investigators is coercing people... So? Even if there are people who do stuff like that, it's a tiny fraction of cases like this.
- pencilguin 4y agoAre you unfamiliar with the definition of "principal activity"?
- tablespoon 4y ago> Are you unfamiliar with the definition of "principal activity"? Yes. I'm just saying bringing up spies in this case is a distraction. Unless you have some compelling evidence to say it's spies, it's not spies. Your looking for the exotic when the mundane is far, far more likely.
- pencilguin 4y ago