The apparent Saudi Kashoggi murder makes so little sense. Why fly in a whole team of experts to make him expertly disappear, while his fiancé waits in front of the door?
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this is the least amount of plausible deniability that they could get short of a public execution at the hands of a government official
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seems like they calibrated it exactly where they wanted it to be then. what's the point of abhorrent violence against dissidents if the other dissidents don't know who is responsible?
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without plausible deniability, the relationship to the US is put in jeopardy
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You might have missed the point. The point is to send a message to other journalists.
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And you think that you cannot send such a message while maintaining plausible deniability?
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Two different audiences. The journalists and the gullible loyalists. The degree of plausibility differs for both audiences.
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I don't think this is how it works. There is a public truth, which is the union of what's expedient to believe and what cannot be denied. And there is plausible reality, based on means and motive, which determines on what politicians act on, regardless of what they say in public.
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Perhaps the Saudis didn't realize that the Turks were bugging their embassy? How else did the Turks have information about an interrogation and the presence of a bone saw?
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