{"id":17490,"date":"2018-07-03T14:40:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T21:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2018-07-03T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T21:40:04","slug":"limited-hangout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/07\/03\/limited-hangout\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited Hangout"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I happened to come across a post by independent journalist Marcy Wheeler in which she argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2018\/06\/26\/ike-kaveladzes-missing-suit\/\"> Ike Kaveladze\u2019s missing suit<\/a> was a <i>limited hangout<\/i>.\r\n<p>I hadn\u2019t remembered the phrase\u2014it\u2019s an intelligence-community phrase, evidently, that became more-or-less well known when the Watergate conspirators suggested a modified limited hangout. You see, a limited hangout is when you let some of the truth hang out where people can see it. As I understand it, it\u2019s used when a piece of the truth has already been discovered or is at great danger of being discovered, you find a way to hang out the right (limited) parts of the truth. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyzant.com\/resources\/lessons\/history\/hpol\/nixon\/watergate\/executive-privilege\">modified limited hangout<\/a> is presumably when you hang out some limited, modified truth\u2026 modified to the extent that it isn\u2019t truth at all anymore.\r\n<p>It\u2019s a long post and I haven\u2019t been following the details of the story. Ms. Wheeler is arguing that there was a limited hangout about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians, because enough people knew about it that there was no chance of keeping it secret, once the investigation started. I have seen the phrase used in relation to the investigation before\u2014people do like making Nixon comparisons. I make \u2019em myself. And while there are more well-known ones (after the recent fraud case, I saw a lot of people using the quotation <i>people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook<\/i>, which I thought was nice, and I will always associated <i>expletive deleted<\/i> with the tapes, even now that we have the transcripts that don\u2019t delete the expletives) I would like to see <i>limited hangout<\/i> and indeed <i>modified limited hangout<\/i> being one of those phrases that takes up permanent residence in the public conversation.\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the Google joke made, OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17492,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions\/17492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}