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Originally Posted by dilanesp
He didn't harshly criticize the lack of transparency. He mildly criticized it, and avoided drawing any conclusion as to why they weren't transparent. His position was "well, it was a mistake to not be transparent, but they weren't actually hiding anything wrong".
When a journalist sees an agency acting like this, the controlling impulse should be "OK, what were they hiding". And then you go find out. Under no circumstances would a serous journalist write Finley's story, accepting all of their explanations. Finley was clearly determined to accept whatever false cover story they gave.
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I didn't read it that way, but I understand what you are saying.
