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The Last Diplomat
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#12Damn Paywalls. I wish there was a service that I could sign up to and it would make all the paywalls go away.
Well, there is. Or, rather, there are. One per paywall.
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#13The attitude of the FBI towards diplomacy portrayed in the story is pretty alarming. I generally have a positive view on the Obama administration, but their pursuit of "leaks" post Wikileaks & Snowden is deeply upsetting to me.
Counterintelligence people trying to build careers.
Suppose the US government database says the US drone program in Pakistan is classified top secret and she did not have official permission to speak about it. Except that everyone who is anyone knows about it. So the difference between how the US wants something to be classified and how secret it actually is allows FBI to say she talked about things without permission, when her bosses in State know she didn't tell anyone anything they didn't already know.
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#14I have a little off topic question. The article says that after months of investigating a career diplomat with 40 years of service under suspicion that she turned and now works as a Pakistani spy in the US...
>> Two FBI agents approached her, their faces stony. “Do you know any foreigners?” they asked
Why do cops ask such questions? What is this investigative technique supposed to achieve? Make the suspect angry so they would be less careful in phrasing their answers? Let the suspect assume the investigator knows nothing so the suspect would think they can blatantly lie and the investigator would not realize? Something else?
I don't think there are any elicitation techniques the FBI has that she hasn't mastered, so why do that?
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#15Damn Paywalls. I wish there was a service that I could sign up to and it would make all the paywalls go away.
Someone is going to have to start up some type of syndicate at some point to make it easy for publishers to put up paywalls and easy for readers to subscribe and unsubscribe to them.
Whoever does that will do pretty well for themselves.
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#16I have a little off topic question. The article says that after months of investigating a career diplomat with 40 years of service under suspicion that she turned and now works as a Pakistani spy in the US... >> Two FBI agents approached her, their faces stony. “Do you know any foreigners?” they asked Why do cops ask such questions? What is this investigative technique supposed to achieve? Make the suspect angry so t…
they ask some of the most ridiculous questions trying to trip you and make you say stuff you don't mean or isn't true.
Like, "do you know any foreigners?" turns into "why didn't you disclose that telationship, did they pay you money?"
No matter what you say it opens up a new line of questioning for the investigators. That's why lawyers tell you to never talk to them, not even to try and clear things up.
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#17I have a little off topic question. The article says that after months of investigating a career diplomat with 40 years of service under suspicion that she turned and now works as a Pakistani spy in the US... >> Two FBI agents approached her, their faces stony. “Do you know any foreigners?” they asked Why do cops ask such questions? What is this investigative technique supposed to achieve? Make the suspect angry so t…
If they ask "do you know any foreigners" and you say no, and then they can prove you know a foreigner, that's it: they've got you guilty of a federal felony (lying to an FBI agent about materially relevant matters in the investigation), and since there were two FBI agents one will act as the witness for the other. Then they don't need to investigate anything else; your career is over and you're going to prison.
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#18Damn Paywalls. I wish there was a service that I could sign up to and it would make all the paywalls go away.
Someone is going to have to start up some type of syndicate at some point to make it easy for publishers to put up paywalls and easy for readers to subscribe and unsubscribe to them. Whoever does that will do pretty well for themselves.
It exists and is called Blendle
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#19I have a little off topic question. The article says that after months of investigating a career diplomat with 40 years of service under suspicion that she turned and now works as a Pakistani spy in the US... >> Two FBI agents approached her, their faces stony. “Do you know any foreigners?” they asked Why do cops ask such questions? What is this investigative technique supposed to achieve? Make the suspect angry so t…
If they ask "do you know any foreigners" and you say no, and then they can prove you know a foreigner, that's it: they've got you guilty of a federal felony (lying to an FBI agent about materially relevant matters in the investigation), and since there were two FBI agents one will act as the witness for the other. Then they don't need to investigate anything else; your career is over and you're going to prison.
But why would a diplomat whose job it is to talk to foreigners say they don't know any?
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#20Damn Paywalls. I wish there was a service that I could sign up to and it would make all the paywalls go away.
Go to the comments, click 'web' on top, open the first link in the resultant google search.
For some reason, they don't paywall access through google, only direct links.