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(dunno how useful it really is to collect all this stuff, but I suppose time will tell, as usual)
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sez Bryan: "Together, we're watching competing stories of fear being erected and supported." He promises to "return to this story as it shambles along..." and I await with bated xxx
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(a noteworthy summary, best I've seen so far... keep eyes glued to this source)
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Goshes, who can you Trust in the jungles of disinformation? "...it's pretty easy to just make up cables to serve your political agenda. If the Pakistani forgers had been more sophisticated they would have invented quotes or even mocked up fake cables rather than just paraphrasing..."
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(I seem to be gathering up posts that MAKE SENSE, even if I don't necessarily totally agree. I'd already read Hertzberg, Shirky and Winer in the last few hours, and my take on the shemozzle is evolving and articulating thanks to the thoughtful work of various others... still think Hillary Clinton's Jan 2010 comments are among the most apposite) In the antepenultimate para is the typo 'faught' which I declare to be a VALUABLE COINAGE, composed of equal parts 'faugh' and 'fraught', summary interjection and contingency marker, respectively.
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thanks to Bryan Alexander for the pointer
"Photoshop for data" it says here
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bloggy-style
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Hillary Clinton's deathless quote from Jan 2010 is required reading
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Cory sez: security theater means never having to say "your sari."
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"I watch my friends root for the attackers and think this is the way wars always begin. The "fighting the good fight" spirit. Let's go over there and show them who we are. Let's make a symbolic statement. By the time the war is underway, we won't remember any of that. We will wonder how we could have been so naive to think that war was something wonderful or glorious..."