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The article asks why did GCHQ destroy certain components and not others then discussion is hijacked by somebody transparently trolling on cruise control. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...


Not just somebody, but a self-proclaimed former spook.

A bit further down this thread you can see how one of his counter-arguments consisted of telling someone his Android book had terrible reviews. What's funny about this is that it fits neatly with one of JTRIG's purposes of destroying reputations.

Although he did such a hilariously bad job of trying to destroy someone's reputation, I doubt he's anything other than a troll.

But now that I think of it, he did succeed in derailing a big part of this thread, so maybe he knows what he's doing.


Oh my word - your mind is in paranoid overdrive right now.

1. Never proclaimed I was a spook or a spy. Not once, anywhere.

2. If I did proclaim I was a spook and was indeed a JTRIG sockpuppet that would make me a pretty fucking terrible secret provocateur wouldn't it?

3. A poster attacked my writing so I responded with the Amazon reviews calling his own writing terrible. Pretty sure he destroyed his own reputation with his book long before this thread. He could have just linked to the Reddit without criticising my writing.

4. If you can find a factual error with 1-3 then post it.


One of your submissions is titled "Former spook on Reddit AMA". It links to a thread on Reddit that was created by a user named "Zen Pro".


Yes you are right. That is decidedly inconvenient to maintaining credibility on this thread but in the interests of being transparent you are right.

It was early in my HN posting and it was a stupid title. Not even remotely close to the original Reddit title.

I concede the point. If I am shill I must be a pretty poor one to torpedo my own credibility like that.

shrug


The JTRIG plans were ludicrous. I would quite happily support a Judge to reign that in. The overreach is astonishing.




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