{"id":47378,"date":"2015-10-25T04:24:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T04:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47378"},"modified":"2015-10-25T04:32:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T04:32:06","slug":"two-serpent-eats-tail-views-of-the-brennan-email-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47378","title":{"rendered":"Two serpent-eats-tail views of the Brennan email hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; spy vs spy as delicate moral balance ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spy-vs-spy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spy-vs-spy.png\" alt=\"spy vs spy\" width=\"374\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spy-vs-spy.png 374w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spy-vs-spy-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/spy-vs-spy-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are two sentences in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/john-brennan-emails_56280454e4b08589ef4aaf01\">When The Hackers Become The Hacked: Why Reading John Brennan&#8217;s Emails Feels Wrong<\/a>, <strong>Ali Watkins<\/strong>&#8216; HuffPo piece a couple of days ago, that feature a neat sense of paradox, and what&#8217;s most interesting about them is that they show us two different sides of the coin.<\/p>\n<p>The first [upper panel, below] has a bit of an &#8220;<strong>ooh, look<\/strong>&#8221; feel to it, finding its turning point in the fact that the keeper of secrets has had his own secrets exposed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SPEC-Brennan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SPEC-Brennan.png\" alt=\"SPEC Brennan\" width=\"592\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SPEC-Brennan.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SPEC-Brennan-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>while the second [lower panel, above] centers on how it feels &#8220;<strong>from the inside<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>All of which <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46972\">reminds me<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/Talmud\/megillah1.html\">Talmudic distinction<\/a> between the Israelites&#8217; view, watching as their enemies the Egyptians perish in the Red Sea, and God&#8217;s view, seeing the Egyptian plight from the inside as it were, encapsulated in <strong>R Johanan<\/strong>&#8216;s phrase: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My creatures are drowning in the sea, and you want to sing songs!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to Ali Watkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; spy vs spy as delicate moral balance ] . There are two sentences in When The Hackers Become The Hacked: Why Reading John Brennan&#8217;s Emails Feels Wrong, Ali Watkins&#8216; HuffPo piece a couple of days ago, that feature a neat sense of paradox, and what&#8217;s most interesting about them is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,92,901,1174,239,929,840,676,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-cia","category-comics","category-hacking","category-ic","category-morality","category-paradox","category-scriptures","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47378"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47386,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47378\/revisions\/47386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}