[AR] Re: Say it ain't so Elon...
- From: Ed LeBouthillier <codemonky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:01:42 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
As a manager, I long ago understood that this sort of conversation reveals a
lot about the
character of the—in this case—poster and little to nothing about the facts.
Ooh...a "real" manager? That must make you authoritative on this issue of lying.
The US Government and it’s intelligence agencies in particular try to avoid
false statements
(WH excepted);I have seen people “lie” to the extent that if pushed into a
corner by a direct
question they will say they don’t know rather than reveal classified
information—I have so done myself.
Oh, so when James Clapper answered the question 'whether the NSA collected "any
type of data at all on
millions or hundreds of millions of Americans” — to which Clapper said "No, sir
... not wittingly.”'
[
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/27/darrell-issa-james-clapper-lied-to-congress-about-nsa-and-should-be-fired/?utm_term=.5fdc3e959a34
]
that wasn't an intelligence agency lying to congress or the American public?
Was that an individual lying to the people or was that a TLA lying to the
people, or was that the government lying to the people?
When Colin Powell talked about yellow cake [
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-schwarz/colin-powell-wmd-iraq-war_b_2624620.html
] was that an individual lying, the State Department lying, or the government
lying?
Just because there isn't a policy to lie (or at least a written policy),
doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
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