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When I heard the "is not monitoring and will not monitor" I thougth "We didn't, and we will not do it again"
by singold 13y ago
When I heard the "is not monitoring and will not monitor" I thougth "We didn't, and we will not do it again"
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- sn41 13y agoThis is a classic non-denial denial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-denial_denial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-denial_denial In these cases, I think what is important is what is not being said. For example, they aren't saying: we did not monitor the Chancellor's phone calls in the past. We didn't and won't record other senior EU officials, etc. The problem is that journalists do not pry enough, because if they are too curious, they will eventually lose privileged access to these government sources.