I thought McCarthyism was where you found an ambitious, alchoholic, patholigical liar, and then got them to take over a major political movement, just to see what kinds of crazy came crawling out.
Honestly, looking back at intelligence operations in the Cold War, and for that matter, counterintelligence operations? Yeah, some of the dumbest stuff actually worked, the more sophisticated stuff had a nasty habit of fouling up.
Get a housekeeper in the Soviet embassy to throw out classified documents, and fish them out of the trash? Yeah, that worked for years.
Yeah, although it sounds racist, this specific profile does have a few warning signs.
Basically, they're spending a lot of money on international travel, while not having enough to pay the bills...
Thing is, this is getting cross threaded with the whole ideology element. Past experience is, you need one OR the other to turn someone, not both. And, when I say "turn", I really mean a coordinated intelligence agency, not, you know, "terrerusts!"
Of course, the whole thing is made worse by the fact that we know, in this day and age, all bank seizures of property are legal, right guys?
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The issue there is the definite article. In context, as an American, "These United States" is a plural, and "have" would make sense in context. It's a bit grandiose, but acceptable.
"The United States", with the singular article, should be followed with "has", not "have", as a mater of normal American English conjugation.
Here's the thing, and this isn't normal English, as far as I can remember, with "these", the emphasis is on "states" as separate entities, with "the", the term "United States" is effectively a single, and singular, propper noun.
It's a mistake that most Americans are unlikely to make, because the shifting emphasis on States as a plural and United as a single entity is a familiar idiomatic anomaly.
To a non-American it's an arbitrary mess without any real logic backing it up.
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Most entertaining conspiracy theory I've heard in the last five hours... of course the only OTHER conspiracy theory I've run across today involved the Illuminati... so the competition isn't really what you'd call fierce.
There's also the part where the DoJ was claiming that the records were unavailable. While I'm not expecting every DoJ schmuck to know about Prism's records, it could do a real number on their claims that they didn't the evidence didn't exist.
Given that the FBI's passed intelligence to companies in the recent past, it wouldn't surprise me if "in the interests of maintaining American influence", that the CIA and NSA had in fact deliberately passed information to Corporate America. That said, you're probably 100% right about exactly how they passed intell.
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Get a housekeeper in the Soviet embassy to throw out classified documents, and fish them out of the trash? Yeah, that worked for years.
Cultivate a spy network in East Berlin? No dice.
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Basically, they're spending a lot of money on international travel, while not having enough to pay the bills...
Thing is, this is getting cross threaded with the whole ideology element. Past experience is, you need one OR the other to turn someone, not both. And, when I say "turn", I really mean a coordinated intelligence agency, not, you know, "terrerusts!"
Of course, the whole thing is made worse by the fact that we know, in this day and age, all bank seizures of property are legal, right guys?
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So, he could be from the US?
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Re: Plural 'United States' not unheard of domestically...
"The United States", with the singular article, should be followed with "has", not "have", as a mater of normal American English conjugation.
Here's the thing, and this isn't normal English, as far as I can remember, with "these", the emphasis is on "states" as separate entities, with "the", the term "United States" is effectively a single, and singular, propper noun.
It's a mistake that most Americans are unlikely to make, because the shifting emphasis on States as a plural and United as a single entity is a familiar idiomatic anomaly.
To a non-American it's an arbitrary mess without any real logic backing it up.
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