Re: Miers out!

Kip Williams wrote:
Zev Sero wrote:
Kip Williams wrote:

No, I'm pretty confident that by revealing that she worked for the CIA
nothing was risked at all. The *only* reason to suppose that this was
meant to be a secret is the fact that the CIA asked for a criminal
inquiry into the leak; and there exist other reasonable explanations for that referral.

So people who work for the CIA have no need of secrecy? Foreign governments learn about this and don't feel any need to take steps to neutralize their contacts? My, my.

Most people who work for the CIA have no need of secrecy. On general
principles, the CIA would *like* to minimise all discussion of anything
at all to do with it, but there's no real need for it. Most CIA employees have no foreign contacts of any particular importance, that
foreign governments would care about.

And you've somehow figured out, in the absence of any information, that she falls under this category? Sarcasm fails me. 

Your questions above (offset with three arrows) applies to *all* CIA
employees, and reason that since she was a CIA employee, it necessarily
follows that she had a need for secrecy.  My response (with two arrows)
is that that does not necessarily follow.  Now, did this particular
CIA employee in fact need secrecy?  As I said in the post above
(4 arrows), I see very little reason to suppose so.  The only serious
reason is the fact of the CIA referral, and there are other reasonable
explanations that account for it.

(Note that any followup to this post will have more arrows at each
offset; if you're reading a followup, please take that into account.)

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Zev Sero             Security and liberty are like beer and TV.  They go
zev@xxxxxxxxx        well together, but are completely different concepts.
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