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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why would the spooks leave material evidence. The conspiracy doesn’t have to be very large to work.

[–] DrCatface@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

username checks out

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have to say that the suggestion that the absence of any evidence of a conspiracy is itself evidence of a conspiracy is some truly 10/10 pants on head conspiracy-brained logic. Very impressive.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Nah. People think that conspiracies need to be some large crazy hyper complex operation with many moving and confusing parts, but they don’t have to be. It’s far easier to keep things under wraps if your conspiracy is small — only involving a handful of people — and, you have the ability to throw people in jail for the rest of their lives if they leak it i.e. the US security apparatus. I could see a small team of spooks being given the free rein to concoct a honey trap for assange and making it stick, all without any real public physical evidence. It’s not the wildest thing versus all of the Q-anon nonsense.