{"id":49726,"date":"2016-04-16T17:32:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T17:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49726"},"modified":"2016-04-16T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T17:51:31","slug":"istigkeit-approximately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49726","title":{"rendered":"Istigkeit, approximately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; classification, impropriety, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/311443-neither-agreeable-nor-disagreeable-i-answered-it-just-is-istigkeit\">a concept<\/a> pretty much unique to Meister Eckhart ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>First, here&#8217;s what I call a <strong>DoubleTweet<\/strong>, juxtaposing two tweets <strong>for the resonance between them<\/strong> &#8212; and juxtaposing two thoughts for the resonance between them is about as simple a way of demonstrating <strong>the whole being greater than the sum of its parts<\/strong> as I can think of.<\/p>\n<p>Take 1, <strong>Obama <\/strong>is slippery with words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Playbook: Obama, re Hillary email: \u2018There\u2019s classified, and then there\u2019s classified\u2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CTp8Hn8X5l\">https:\/\/t.co\/CTp8Hn8X5l<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bvRdwxmwmj\">pic.twitter.com\/bvRdwxmwmj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Allen (@mikeallen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeallen\/status\/719165841758142465\">April 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take 2, the <strong>Europeans <\/strong>outbid and finesse him:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Best excuse ever for failing to respond to a terrorist threat that you were literally emailed about in advance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vHASPbCSD7\">pic.twitter.com\/vHASPbCSD7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveedGR\/status\/720866875530326016\">April 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t actually know if you can <strong>outbid and finesse<\/strong> while playing Bridge, but you can in metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>There was also a <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong> that sprang to mind, but <strong>Patti Brown<\/strong> got to it first, so I&#8217;ll just copy her tweet here: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\">@POTUS<\/a> &quot;There&#39;s classified and then there&#39;s classified.&quot; .<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billclinton\">@billclinton<\/a> &quot;&quot;It depends upon what the meaning of the word &#39;is&#39; is.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patti Brown (@pattibrown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pattibrown\/status\/719699465586671616\">April 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lawyers &#8212; the Clintons &#038; POTUS. <\/p>\n<p>Compare philosophers, poets, native speakers, natural language processors.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also worth taking into consideration here: <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Mark Stout<\/strong>, <em>War on the Rocks<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2016\/03\/were-hillary-clintons-emails-classified-where-you-stand-depends-on-where-you-sit\/\">Were Hillary Clinton&#8217;s emails classified? Where you stand  depends on where you sit<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>the uproar about the Clinton email server ignores the reality that, for very good reasons, the CIA and the State Department have different approaches to classification and classified information. These different approaches result from the different functions of the agencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><strong>Cory Bennett<\/strong>, <em>The Hill<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/250998-clinton-emails-reveal-murky-world-of-top-secret-documents\">Clinton emails reveal murky world of \u2018top secret\u2019 documents<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The watchdog [IG] said it found a number of Clinton\u2019s emails that currently contained \u201cclassified intelligence community information.\u201d But the State Department has said it did not consider that language classified at the time those emails were sent.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides can be correct, said several former officials. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s enough <strong>hipbonish<\/strong> excitement for one post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; classification, impropriety, and a concept pretty much unique to Meister Eckhart ] . First, here&#8217;s what I call a DoubleTweet, juxtaposing two tweets for the resonance between them &#8212; and juxtaposing two thoughts for the resonance between them is about as simple a way of demonstrating the whole being greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1337,526,1282,770,627,1151,1338,529,184,47,1149,630,1336,183,218,741,943,1,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-clinton","category-charles-cameron","category-classified","category-daveed-gartenstein-ross","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-email","category-games","category-hillary-clinton","category-intelligence","category-john-schindler","category-language","category-lawyers","category-obama","category-philosophy","category-poetry","category-sex","category-uncategorized","category-war-on-the-rocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49726","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=49726"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49738,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49726\/revisions\/49738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}