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To: lapsus calami
And in the Washington ComPost of all places - okay, what's the catch......

Do the words modified limited hangout ring a bell? :-)

30 posted on 10/24/2017 4:03:01 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mewzilla
either you are student of history, great memory, old as mud or all the above. good job!

A limited hangout or partial hangout is, according to former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Victor Marchetti, "spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."

In a March 22, 1973 meeting between Richard Nixon, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, and H. R. Haldeman, Ehrlichman incorporated the term into a new and related one, "modified limited hangout"

The phrase was coined in the following exchange:

PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the — let it hang out, so to speak?

DEAN: Well, it's, it isn't really that —

HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out.

DEAN: It's a limited hang out.

EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out.

PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.

wikipedia

67 posted on 10/24/2017 4:17:58 PM PDT by saywhatagain
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To: mewzilla

And in the Washington ComPost of all places - okay, what’s the catch......

Maybe Hillary cut off the payments to Jeff Bezos...


105 posted on 10/24/2017 4:39:48 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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