Originally Posted by
sonatine
interesting legal nuance.
the briefings filed today assert that it contains classified material, threatens sigint sources etc.
so a lot of people are saying 'ohhhh it must be all true'.
as it happens its not that black and white.
if a lie could be traced to a single source, the knowledge of the lie essentially implies the compromise of the single source.
so lets say i, an NSA employee, tapped the indian embassy in china, and heard an employee there bragging that he shat in the streets of the forbidden city. and i ran it down and he wasnt even in the country at the time he claimed to drop trou and shit on the hallowed stones of china's forbidden city main thoroughfare, per his claim.
i cant release that information, even tho its a lie, because to do so would reveal that i had tapped the embassy, and to reveal that information would be a national security concern.
hence; classified.
that said i havent read a single thing so far that strikes me as false in any and i mean any way, beyond bolton's breathless overestimation of his accomplishments. whats more he kept copious notes.
still tho, interesting quirk and likely going to be grossly misdiagnosed by the press.