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   XPost: alt.politics.uk   
   From: abelard3@abelard.org   
      
   On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:26:54 -0000, "tim..."    
   wrote:   
      
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   >"abelard"  wrote in message   
   >news:uo9a8cht80jjoib4ptvr387fu0ii2f7no4@4ax.com...   
   >> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:32:06 +0000, Ian Jackson   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>In message , abelard   
   >>> writes   
   >>>>On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:52:41 -0500, burfordTjustice   
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>Missile failure off Florida? British leader won't say   
   >>>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>amazing that she doesn't have a clue about missiles either   
   >>>>   
   >>>>who would have guessed   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, also a Trident opponent, called it   
   >>>>>"a pretty catastrophic error."   
   >>>>   
   >>>>amazing that he doesn't have a clue about missiles either   
   >>>>   
   >>>>who would have guessed   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>The British government hasn't confirmed the newspaper's report of a   
   >>>>>misfire.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>it wasn't a misfire   
   >>>>   
   >>>>amazing that the reptile doesn't have a clue about missiles either   
   >>>>   
   >>>>who would have guessed   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>surely they should be feeding all the data to the reptiles and   
   >>>>    socialists...   
   >>>>britain's opponents need to know   
   >>>>   
   >>>The fact that there was even a test firing is probably an Official   
   >>>Secret* - let alone how the test went. The PM did the right thing not to   
   >>>comment - although she might have been wiser simply to say "Sorry -   
   >>>Official Secret - no comment - don't ask again".   
   >>   
   >> saying that would imply there is a 'secret'   
   >   
   >yes but you won't know what the secret was   
      
   good   
      
   >Time has long passed since the security services denied that there were any   
   >secrets at all, so I don't see that refusing to answer a question on the   
   >ground of official secrecy gives anything away.   
      
   it's a matter of sentence/logic structure   
      
   that there are secrets does not imply any particular secret...   
      
   the reptile has already framed the interaction as referencing   
       a particular 'secret'   
      
      
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