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According to the BBC and other news sources, the CIA is starting a probe to find out who leaked charges that they are running a system of secret prisons where people are tortured.
Either I'm missing something, or this is the CIA's way of saying "We're not allowed to say so publicly, but this is true." If it isn't true, there was nothing to leak and no classified information involved. If I wrote an article saying "The CIA is run by Martians from inside the Hollow Earth," they might refer me to a psychiatrist, but they wouldn't be asking who told me.
Either I'm missing something, or this is the CIA's way of saying "We're not allowed to say so publicly, but this is true." If it isn't true, there was nothing to leak and no classified information involved. If I wrote an article saying "The CIA is run by Martians from inside the Hollow Earth," they might refer me to a psychiatrist, but they wouldn't be asking who told me.
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