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|content=We need an intelligence community we can trust to *not* be open. That is the conundrum we face. How do we gain oversight and protect ourselves against a secret world that we want to remain opaque? | |||
This is a giant liability of not being able to rest on a shared national culture. | |||
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|content=Normally I would think that our interests would be best served by self-investigation of the IC through redoing the '''Church/Pike Committees'''. | |content=Normally I would think that our interests would be best served by self-investigation of the IC through redoing the '''Church/Pike Committees'''. | ||
But given the hands closing around the throat of free unsurveiled action and open idea exchange, pardoning Assange and Snowden makes sense. | But given the hands closing around the throat of free unsurveiled action and open idea exchange, pardoning Assange and Snowden makes sense. | ||
|timestamp=6:40 AM · Jan 18, 2021 | |||
Or more simply put: if our bizarre press and elected representatives refuse to ASK about Jeffrey Epstein’s links to the Intelligence world, what choice do we have but pardoning those who do the work abdicated by government & the press while they cowardly refuse to do their jobs? | }} | ||
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I should also say that the problem isn’t as simple as Assange & Snowden. Assume for the moment that they both acted in a principled fashion and did so with great care. You’d still have the issue that pardons send a signal to less principled actors which could be catastrophic. | |image=Eric profile picture.jpg | ||
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|timestamp= | |content=Or more simply put: if our bizarre press and elected representatives refuse to ASK about Jeffrey Epstein’s links to the Intelligence world, what choice do we have but pardoning those who do the work abdicated by government & the press while they cowardly refuse to do their jobs? | ||
|timestamp=6:40 AM · Jan 18, 2021 | |||
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|content=I should also say that the problem isn’t as simple as Assange & Snowden. Assume for the moment that they both acted in a principled fashion and did so with great care. You’d still have the issue that pardons send a signal to less principled actors which could be catastrophic. | |||
|timestamp=6:48 AM · Jan 18, 2021 | |||
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