As a former member of what's called "the intelligence community," one of the things that the analyst side of the house had to contend with was a thing called "confirmation bias", which was the urge to take a particular piece of information more seriously *because it fit with what you expected the enemy to do*. Your warning people not to jump to conclusions reminded me of that. But as you say, in an age where the ATF/CIA/FBI/etc. are demonstrably out to get people like us, is it possible to be too paranoid? I for one am going to sleep a lot better once President Trump charges VP Vance with internally exiling a lot of intel community bureaucrats to Amchitka.
As a former member of what's called "the intelligence community," one of the things that the analyst side of the house had to contend with was a thing called "confirmation bias", which was the urge to take a particular piece of information more seriously *because it fit with what you expected the enemy to do*. Your warning people not to jump to conclusions reminded me of that. But as you say, in an age where the ATF/CIA/FBI/etc. are demonstrably out to get people like us, is it possible to be too paranoid? I for one am going to sleep a lot better once President Trump charges VP Vance with internally exiling a lot of intel community bureaucrats to Amchitka.