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"I'd put 'covert CIA assassination' in the same bucket and I don't really know how to put this politely but this is, in my mind, tinfoilhattery."

I don't know how much any of us is in a position to assess the how 'tinfoilhattery' the risk of this is,

its easy to dismiss that as something that only happens in movies, but if it happens in real life, would we be any the wiser?

we do know that Iranian scientists have low life expectancies

couple of thoughts:

1) Snowdon is probably in a better position than us to assess that risk, and seemed to think it was real

2) either way, going public lessened the risk, if he gets in a drunk driving accident next week, or is shot by a mugger, most people won't assume it was coincidence

3) I think Mannings fate is argument enough against staying put




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