• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I can’t imagine the Netherlands would just give the screenshots to random journalists. That doesn’t mean that if congress requested copies they wouldn’t get them. That said I also can’t imagine that the CIA wouldnt know about such happening, so if congress had anyway to investigate there is no saying you wouldn’t get matching information from a leak. Hell I’d be surprised if the CIA didn’t have a spy in the Netherlands security team.

    • ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works
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      14 hours ago

      The upside for MIVD is essentially zero; the downside is a diplomatic crisis.

      From my point of view that’s entirely it. They have used journalists before for a leak, but not in a book and not of a US senior level official (even if he is a dip shit).

      Having said that, would you tell Trump that Kushner’s phone got hacked because he has the hygiene of a hooligan?