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"I understand how you feel about would-be hoaxes, however I can assure you I am not a hoax. Of course, this is only my word,"
Right there. Given there can be no argument that you have just contradicted yourself in the space of two sentences, directly adjacent to one another, there can only be one of two reasons why:
1) You are completely ignorant of having done so, in which case this adds to Darby's claim that you exhibit the intelligence of a civil servant (one with a self-inflated ego, which is saying something redundant).
2) You are so unbelievably arrogant in your hoax that you lie outright about being able to assure me, without ever thinking you will be called on it, as if no one would have the brain to notice.
If it is reason number (2) then my rudeness towards you and your arrogant hoax is more than well justified. If it is reason number (1) you are much more clueless than you think you are, and certainly too vapid for me to take seriously. Hence my ridicule of your ignorance would be at least in the ballpark of being correct, as would Darby's entertaining "gubmint goon" schtick.
RMT
RainManTime,
How can you create an arguement from half a sentence? Perhaps you should find a place in politics as well...The remainder of my sentence was:
Of course, this is only my word, and you will not be sure of this until the various events and outcomes I have mentioned come to pass...
Basically what I was saying was, I am giving you my word, but you do not know me and therefore my word more than likely means nothing to you. Therefore, as the rest of my statement read, you would see the events and outcomes I mentioned come to pass before you would more than likely believe me.
Your statement that you, as a single person, have all the authorization you need to release DoD information is blatantly false, as it violates a fundamental principle of both OpSec and InfoSec (no matter what year you live in). This is how >I< am the one who can assure >YOU< (and others) that you are, indeed, a hoax.
Furthermore, I directly answered your concerns regarding DoD guidelines and my abililty to do what I am doing here and the only fault you could find is one you created. You either twisted my words or misread because I never said that I, as a single person, had the authorization to release information. What I said was:
"...as the Head of an Agency within the DoD, I have clearance authority on the subject. Anything I have mentioned here is not sensitive to military matters or national security issues and therefore does not fall under the policies which you have stated. Furthermore, you must remember that DARPA is in fact involved directly in this technology, however only as part of the ITI. Anyone involved in the project does have operational security guidelines set before them by the ITI..."
If, in fact, you do have knowledge of DoD guidelines (which I do not doubt you - as hundreds of thousands of government employees and civilian workers who deal with the Department everyday do), then you know what I say about being a Head of Agency is true. I in fact do have clearance authority on the subject and am involved in what, if any, information is released regarding a certain project. Once again, I never said that I,
solely, have the authority. Additionally, I followed that comment by saying that within this time travel project I am under the directives of the ITI, not DARPA, as the ITI is the organization who is running the project.
Either way, you just can't win. And for all the huff and puff you state about OpSec, you still have not answered my questions a couple pages back. Why the continuous stalling and sidetracking?
Finally, you acknowledge I have answered your questions regarding OpSec/InfoSec, etc (which you cannot deny I have), but say I am stalling and sidetracking by not answering your previous questions. First of all, in what way is doing what you asked me to do (answer your questions and concerns) sidetracking or stalling? What am I sidetracking or stalling? Answering your questions? That's what I am doing! How can I be stalling answering your questions by, well, answering your questions? Furthermore, in the post to which you just replied with the above quote about "you still have not answered my questions...stop stalling", I clearly stated:
"If I have not answered some of your questions it may simply be because you have had a few 'junk' posts after which I simply skipped over a majority of. As I said before, I will be happy to answer any of your questions if you would not mind making a simple list and placing them in a post for me to respond to."
It's right there. Very clear in my previous post. I asked you to simply compile a list of your questions for me to respond to. So, I await your response and your questions! And I hope that if I answer all of your questions and concerns (as I just did in my previous post) you will give it a second or third read so that this type of confusion does not occur again. Let's keep things organized and easy to navigate.
L. Grummond