![Brian Cates: TIME did a "Controlled Explosion" [1612x1058 - 933KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/UkAiH7.png){kind=link}
This is what (((Snowden))) is. It's also called a limited hangout. Admitting what has been found out about you, but admitting only enough to quash any further suspicion in a way that seems as though it's a leak. This isn't the same thing or an identical method as it's clearly not a leak, but the general method and idea is the same.
And don't forget the really important part of the rhetoric where they say: "And there's precedent for this." (proceeds to give a bullshit account of history that legitimizes the admission by showing it's happened at least once before with the implication you survived it or America survived it, and we're better for it!)
I cannot tell you how many times I've pointed these 'controlled explosions' out to people (i.e. they deny it for months, news finally admits the conspiracists were right), and liberal NPC's just say: "Oh, this has been going on forever! It's nothing new!"
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