I am not a totally confirmed cynic. I have simply learned that officials cannot be trusted to tell the truth. Part of the reason is that the very few times that they do tell the truth are never publicized. So I usually ignore anything that an official says. That way I am not fooled if he's lying and have also not needlessly become even more cynical if he is telling the truth. Also there is plausible deniability, meaning the official spokesman tells what he sincerely believes to be the truth, but he leaves out the part about how little he knows.
Bill Fairchild ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elardus Engelbrecht" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:01:40 AM Subject: Re: NSA and Heartbleed Bill Fairchild (DASDBILL2) wrote: >If the NSA, CIA, IRS, DEA, BATFE, FBI, DOD, DOJ, BLM, US Presidents, CEOs of >major corporations, etc., repeatedly and provably lie after the fact when >asked if they did such and such, why should we believe them before the fact >(meaning before anyone has accused them) that they did not do such and such >when they clearly could have if they had just thought of it? My heart is not bleeding for them. Just compare them with used-car/insurance/slimming-products salesmen and you get the picture. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
