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theweaselkingUS Supreme Court rules that legally, the government doesn't have to pay it's spies, no matter what contracts have been signed or who made the promise.
Which means, of course, that now you'll *never* see people willing to give up information that might require them to leave their current location if it were revealed, no matter how valuable the US might find that information, because the US is under no obligation to keep their promises and have not kept their promises in the past.
Note to future potential defectors: Call France, or Germany, or Spain. They're not third-world theocratic dictatorships, they *honour* contracts even if they're with "commies and ragheads"
Which means, of course, that now you'll *never* see people willing to give up information that might require them to leave their current location if it were revealed, no matter how valuable the US might find that information, because the US is under no obligation to keep their promises and have not kept their promises in the past.
Note to future potential defectors: Call France, or Germany, or Spain. They're not third-world theocratic dictatorships, they *honour* contracts even if they're with "commies and ragheads"
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Date: 2005-03-03 05:29 pm (UTC)While I can understand the theoretical fear that spurred the original judgement (the "greymail" issue), I think this is the worst application of it anyone could have come up with.
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Date: 2005-03-03 05:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-03 07:25 pm (UTC)