Decius wrote:

k wrote:
It has sounded to me like you are genuinely arguing that I should trust this information.

Mike has raised some specific reasons to doubt the reliability of this report, but the report isn't out yet. Personally, I'm not making a decision about what I think until I see it. Its possible that the report will sway my opinion about what we should be doing, and so I'm not going to reach a conclusion about what we should be doing before its out. I'm not telling you to blindly trust it. There is a wide gap between blind trust and assuming its bunk before it has even been written.

I genuinely hope you find illumination. I'm not going to try any further to convince you of my point of view. You're willing to give provisional trust to a report authored by the white house. I don't trust them, blindly or otherwise, and yes, assume it's going to be largely bullshit UNLESS and UNTIL it's corroborated by other sources that I do trust. I can't make it any clearer than that.

Go ahead and consider me a closed-minded partisan from now on if it makes you feel better about being so fair minded. Whatever.

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