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Mar 6, 2023Liked by Steven Craddock

Steven I like your opinion piece. My criticism of your reasoning would be that you use CIA’ supposed intent to come up with wether or not the intelligence report should be trusted. I doubt that CIA would show their cards, or that someone can figure out their intent. They manipulate the narrative, and the actual intent remains hidden. We apply this logic to figuring out the intent of people we know well. But we definitely don’t know CIA true agenda. And thus, this approach doesn’t sound reliable to me.

What does sound reliable, is the good ole scientific method, which is not about having evidence in support of a particular hypothesis, but in the inability to falsify it.

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Mar 6, 2023Liked by Steven Craddock

You are welcome, Steven. Just my two cents: If the interest of a spy agency is obvious, that’s probably the interest they want you to assume they have. Creating false narrative is the weapon CIA perfected. And we get fooled time after time after time, only to find out 50 years later what was really going on.

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