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hlthe2b

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3. Thanks... I never wanted to be on twitter, but the crytpic nature of nearly all makes me even less

Reply to Blue Meany (Reply #2)

Mon May 15, 2017, 10:43 AM

May 2017

interested in doing so.

Honestly, I don't see how one is supposed to get anything out of a string of supposedly related comments that are not all temporal to the original message and may be directed at nearly anything or anyone else in the "chain".

It is ludicrous to me.

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It's Rudy Giuliani's time in the barrel (FBI FOIA requests) [View all] MelissaB May 2017 OP

"GLOMAR-ing": Can someone PLEASE translate this to English, please? hlthe2b May 2017 #1

Glomar is a response that is not yes or no. In this case, they had said they couldn't Blue Meany May 2017 #2

Thanks... I never wanted to be on twitter, but the crytpic nature of nearly all makes me even less hlthe2b May 2017 #3

H52 BC don't you know? Come on titaniumsalute May 2017 #4

I don't think glomar is a twitter word. I think it came from the CIA. MelissaB May 2017 #5

Glomar is a truncation of Global Marine. csziggy May 2017 #6

Legal documents here MelissaB May 2017 #7