Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz

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SUGGESTED BINGE WATCHING – FICTIONAL DRAMA ON THE EAST GERMAN STASI

One of Yours Truly’s character flaws is that he adores Whodunnits, especially the zillions of different TV series produced by MHz Choice set in various European cities and featuring English subtitles so that you can brush up on your foreign languages.

Second confession???

Binge watching for the first time ever!!!

The Weissensee Saga is a “Romeo and Juliet” series featuring two East German families 1980-1990, one of which is high-echelon Stasi (the East German counterpart to the Soviet Union’s KGB).

Though you wouldn’t believe the machinations and corruption as the 3 Stasi (father and 2 sons) both threaten, and cover up for, each other and the rest of their extended family, while they also both threaten, and cover up for, the two-member dissident family.

[Stasi, Sr., is the long-time lover of the dissident mother and Black-Sheep Stasi Son becomes the lover of dissident daughter without knowing about the senior relationship.]

Yours truly prides himself in being cynical (which he calls “realism”), but even he was shocked!!! Even though all of the shocking events are entirely believable!!! Especially the reactions of every ordinary citizen when suddenly confronted with evidence gathered while s/he was unexpectedly surveilled, usually vis-à-vis contact with an investigation target!!! Because, of course, s/he knows that s/he is about to be blackmailed with a long-term prison sentence unless s/he becomes a Stasi informer!!! Whether or not s/he knew anything about the objectionable activities of the target!!!

Direct TV is currently (4/28/2017) half-way through the existing 18 episodes (a fourth season is scheduled to begin soon).

But you can start at the beginning and binge-watch all 18 episodes for free!!!

In other words, do NOT order from Amazon.com the DVD’s for each of the first 3 seasons for $22 each.

INSTEAD, sign up for a 7-day free trial for MHz Choice on Amazon.com AND you can binge-watch all 18 episodes AND THEN CANCEL BEFORE the $7.99/month charge kicks in.

JSK - 4/28/2017
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Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz

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Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz
Sen Intel Ch DianneFeinstein’s 2012 War w/Pres Obama


Editorial Notes:

The 2012 War of Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) with President Obama is NOT the same as her 2014 War with President Obama which was the subject of the three Guardian articles recommended by June Taylor (aka Utah Owl) and posted in the next section of this bulletin board entitled “Reference Materials.”

Her 2014 War is the subject of Quiz-3.


Question 1

Has David Sanger been the Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times since 2006?

Answer 1

Yes.

Question 2

Since joining the New York Times in 1982, has David Sanger been a key member of two reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes?

Answer 2

Yes.

Question 3

Was U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee for six years from 1/3/2009 to 1/3/2015 when the Democrats lost control of the U.S. Senate?

Answer 3

Yes.

Question 4

Did Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein complain on 7/23/2012 in an address to the World Affairs Council about recent intelligence leaks including the U.S. cyber attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities?

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

Did Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein describe the leaks as unprecedented in volume and unacceptably damaging to the U.S. National Interest?

Answer 5

Yes.

Question 6

Did the U.S. cyber attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities referenced by Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein comprise the now-famous Stuxnet virus which caused Iran’s nuclear facilities to malfunction while giving the Iranians the false impression that their facilities were simply malfunctioning on their own, rather than being caused to malfunction by the Stuxnet virus?

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

Did Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein attribute the leaks to President Obama’s White House?

Answer 7

In effect, yes. She actually cited David Sanger’s book “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power” (Crown Publishing Company 6/5/2012) which had named the leakers in the Obama White House.

Question 8

Was the apparent motivation for the White House leaks to make President Obama look like a tough international leader in the middle of his 2012 re-election campaign?

Answer 8

Yes.

Question 9

Had the highly-classified information about the U.S. Stuxnet attack appeared in a 6/1/2012 New York Times article?

Answer 9

Yes.

Question 10

Was the 6/1/2012 New York Times article based on David Sanger’s book “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power” (Crown Publishing Company 6/5/2012)?

Answer 10

Yes.

Question 11

Did David Sanger’s book name the individuals on the White House Staff who had been responsible for the leaks?

Answer 11

Yes.

Question 12

In her 7/23/2012 complaint before the World Affairs Council, did Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein say that if President Obama wanted to deny that his White House was responsible for the leaks, then he should first read David Sanger’s book which had named names?

Answer 12

Yes.

Question 13

Did President Obama’s Praetorian Guard (aka the Mainstream Media) immediately attack Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein over whether she PERSONALLY knew which members of the White House Staff had done the leaking?

Answer 13

Yes, President Obama’s Praetorian Guard immediately attacked Sen. Feinstein.

Question 14

Did Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein respond that she did not have personal knowledge, but that her original comments had referred President Obama to David Sanger’s book in which White House Staffers had been named?

Answer 14

Yes.

Question 15

Did President Obama’s Praetorian Guard (aka the Mainstream Media) triumphantly trumpet the fact that Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein did not have personal knowledge of whether the White House had done the leaking as proof that the White House was not responsible?

Answer 15

Yes.

Question 16

Was this a typical non sequitur of the Mainstream Media to focus on an irrelevant detail and then trumpet the irrelevant detail as proof that an important fact is false?

Answer 16

Yes, it was a typical Mainstream Media NON SEQUITUR.

Question 17

After all, if the New York Times Washington Bureau Chief has published a book naming the White House staff who leaked the highly-confidential Stuxnet information, why should the Mainstream Media blatantly attempt to convince the public that the White House staff did not do the leaking simply because Senate Intelligence Chair Dianne Feinstein did not ALSO have personal knowledge of who the individual leakers were?

Answer 17

Why indeed???

Question 18

Similarly, aren’t we in the middle of the Mainstream Media’s attack on President Trump’s tweet about President Obama “wiretapping” the Trump Presidential Campaign on the basis that no “wiretapping” occurred -- even though a lengthy article appeared on the front page of the New York Times on 1/20/2017 under the headline “Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides”?

Answer 18

Yes.

Question 19

Isn’t this a blatant attempt by the Mainstream Media to fool the public into thinking there was no “surveillance” because there allegedly was no “wiretapping” when even the New York Times obviously does not understand the difference? Or were the heads of our Intelligence Services lying once more when they claimed that there had been no “wiretapping” of the Trump Presidential Campaign even though there was obviously “surveillance”?

Answer 19

Yes, it was a blatant attempt by the Mainstream Media to fool the public!!!

And who knows whether the heads of our Intelligence Services were lying once more!!!

Question 20

BTW, on 6/6/2012 (the day after David Sanger’s book was published naming names on the White House staff), did President Obama’s Press Secretary, Jay Carney, say: “Any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks for political gain is grossly irresponsible”?

Answer 20

Yes!!! Incredibly!!!

Question 21

In yet another non sequitur, did the Mainstream Media immediately trumpet this statement as an actual denial that David Sanger’s assertions were true?

Answer 21

Of course!!!

Question 22

Is this similar to the current assertions of the Mainstream Media that President Trump’s tweet containing the same information as a 1/20/2017 New York Times headline is obviously false because the heads of the U.S. intelligence services are apparently playing “word games” with an alleged difference between “wiretapping” and “surveillance”?

Answer 22

So it would appear.

Question 23

Would it be tasteless to recall that President Bill Clinton claimed with respect to Monica Lewinsky that “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” because he was secretly excluding “oral sex” from his definition of “sex”?

Answer 23

What do you think???

Question 24

Why won’t the Mainstream Media actually conduct any investigations, rather than simply play “word games” to try to make disappear the question of whether our Intelligence Services are leaking highly-classified information to eliminate from our democratic government whomever they dislike?

Answer 24

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 25

Is the Mainstream Media likely to “lift a finger” about what the Intelligence Services are doing before we have reached authoritarian rule a la George Orwell’s “1984”?

Answer 25

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

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