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When It Pays to Talk to Terrorists

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Bob Levin9/05/2012 3:16:57 pm PDT

re: #124 Prononymous, rogue demon hunter

Are you sure the point was negotiated more seriously, or negotiated at all? Find the quote for ‘more seriously’, and you prove your point.

However, if the point is ‘more seriously’, that would entail reading thousands of pages of transcripts from multiple agencies, of which, many of the most important documents might still be classified. After that, the author would have to interview those taking part in the negotiations to get the meaning hidden between the lines.

Still, in order to reach his conclusion, he would have to apply hindsight.

Now, why would the author have to work so hard? Because much of the information publicly available does not fit into his hypothesis—if his hypothesis revolves around negotiating more seriously.