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They're professional writers, they knew what they wrote and how people would read it. This is just the plausible deniability phase.
by waterlesscloud 13y ago
They're professional writers, they knew what they wrote and how people would read it.
This is just the plausible deniability phase.
- anigbrowl 13y agoBeing a professional writer doesn't mean that your first draft is always perfect. News writers in particular are operating under deadlines; the whole reason that editors exist is to deal with the inevitable flaws that creep into writing.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoSorry, I just don't believe a line like that goes out unknowingly. It's the obvious pull quote from the whole thing, not a minor sentence that no one noticed.
- anigbrowl 13y agoAnd if I was an editor, I'd dial it back a notch too because it reads more as polemic than principle. Administering the executive branch of the USG is a huge and diverse task; To suggest that the administration had lost all credibility, on any topic, in the light of this news seems laughably overstated to me. Personally, I'm much more interested in the implications of this for the legislative branch, which has had a pattern of abdicating its responsibility on these issues to the executive for the last decade. (The most obvious example, for context, is the AUMF of 2001 which basically gives the EB a a blank check while eschewing any meaningful oversight role.)