it is notable that Russians and their partners have used so many former informants...The author should consider the possibility that this is because the FIB is deliberately trying to entrap the Trump campaign, as they do with everyone else.
One of my quirks," he writes, "has been to keep track of the retirement of senior generals and admirals; those who did not get to the top invariably had a story to tell in explaining why."Another great review at the Intercept.
He even watches for obituaries, which often let slip surprising information about the pasts of, say, deceased CIA operatives. And he will call wives or relatives and search for information that way.
Hersh, in other words, works from the edges inward, developing a grapevine of faceless sources that in turn generate rumors and stories of things he isn't supposed to know...
Believing in Roko’s Basilisk may simply be a “referendum on autism,” as a friend put it.Bingo
If we had a proper patrolling police force of the old kind, many of these incidents would never happen. Such a force would apply the boring laws on drug possession which our armed and scowling gendarmes, and their soppy, pseudo-intellectual chief officers, think are beneath them. Through their intimate knowledge of their beats and their frequent contact with the law-abiding, they would be aware of the strange behaviour of such people long before it became a danger.E.G. being a real peace officer like advocated by the Detroit threat management center, and other private police forces. As always, I advocate for privatization, as they have little to no incentive to become this vicious occupying army like the cops are.
For an unarmed, modest, old-fashioned police force, which walks quietly among us, has millions of willing eyes and ears, in the shape of a friendly and supportive public.
But an armed state militia, dressed for combat with its face set in a rigid frown and its hands ever reaching for gun, club or handcuffs, such as we now have, is a stranger to the people. And as well as making us look like a foreign despotism, it will fail in its task.
