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RE: The Barebones - The Deep State and our current Information War
You are so right but somewhat naive about just how bad it really is, you know about the pillars in my Song of Angels - totally real! A 100% nightmare that did horrible things
I have a cognitive bias in which I make the assumption that the security community is made of patriots that would confront dangers to the nation. I understand the bias, but it is there.
One hopes you are correct and that there are no spies, disgruntled, or corrupt among them. That they always obey the law is also a requirement
Actually, I know that there are spies and corruption within them; the fact that Clinton wasn't prosecuted shows that.
This bias I have colors my interpretations of data, however.
We all get trapped in confirmation bias (believing only what we want to believe) and binary thinking (THIS is true and ONLY THIS is true; all else is FALSE).
A big point in the Information War is that there are many hostile players, and they are all spinning "truth"
Agreed
I'm working on cleaning up this post and reposting it; I'll be adding this discussion to the cleanup