16 February 2014 - confirm nor deny
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Look what Snowden has done: He moved the intelligence services from
“We neither confirm nor deny that we heard the question” all the
way to “The true value of a secret can be known only to those in on
it, nyah nyah!”
clue:
“The true value of any covert intelligence-gathering measures can only
be assessed by reference, at least in part, to sensitive intelligence
matters that cannot be publicly revealed.” — James Eadie as quoted
in The Guardian
take oh take this clue away
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