@Swopa @emptywheel no need to make assumptions about motivations here - we know them - to keep “customers” in USG happy with relevant info.
@Swopa Put it this way: Hayden always says agency goes RIGHT to edge of rules. Tapping those lawyers easily w/in rules @henryfarrell
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@emptywheel@henryfarrell You're repeating yourself. I get the "rules" argument, but for the front page(?) of the NYT, there should be a... -
@emptywheel@henryfarrell ... smoking gun in THIS instance. What was conveyed? How'd it matter to trade case? W/o that, story is nothing. -
@Swopa You're only bugged by spying on lawyers if you can prove we got advantage? And NOT bugged by spying on US based ones?@henryfarrell -
@emptywheel@henryfarrell What I'm "bugged by" doesn't matter. I like my news stories to prove what they say. I had the same "where's the... -
@emptywheel@henryfarrell ... beef" reaction to this as I did to the NYT's 1st Whitewater story in 1992, or Judy Miller's MWD stories in... -
@emptywheel@henryfarrell ... 2002-03. Innuendo isn't proof. Even when the innuendo is coming from the side I agree with. -
@Swopa@emptywheel it isn’t innuendo. For me “nearly certain” surely encompasses “given the facts we have, and what we know about ... -
@Swopa@emptywheel the procedural politics of the NSA, it would be startling had they behaved some other way.” You may have some more ...
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