--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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Below is a series of FFL discussions on whether the words in the
interview could be used to determine that with CERTAINTY that
Wilson's wife was clandestine, whether the above interview showed
such was self-evident.
Sorry, but you keep getting it wrong, at least
in terms of *my* position. The funny thing is,
you *quote* my position first thing:
Judy:
Also, be aware there's an AP article on the
same topic that has a *very* misleading
sentence in reporting on yesterday's (Thursday)
Wolf Blitzer interview with Wilson:
But at the same time, Wilson acknowledged his wife was no longer
in an undercover job at the time Novak's column first identified
her. 'My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak
blew her identity,' he said.
The quote by itself is ambiguous, but in
context, Wilson meant that once Novak had
blown her cover, she was no longer covert
*by definition*.
Now, can you see the difference between what
I said and how you characterized it above?
If you can't, I really have no hope for you.
I *never* suggested, and certainly did not
*argue*, that Wilson's remark could be used
with certainty to determine whether his wife
was clandestine.
That wasn't the issue at all.
Oh, and there's a second misstatement in
your intro. The statement *by itself*, as
quoted by AP, can't be used to determine
anything at all. It becomes self-evident
only *in context*--i.e., in the context of
the interview--that he didn't mean she
wasn't undercover before Novak outed her,
as AP had erroneously interpreted it.
I understand the lure of the gotcha game;
it's fun, and as you noted elsewhere, it's
exercise for the brain.
But if you're going to play it, you better
be damn sure *you* get it before you try to
get somebody else.
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