> American requests ... are done transparently through the courts, are appealable, and don’t come through secret agencies
This reads like someone who has paid absolutely no attention to American law for 25 years.
This reads like someone who has paid absolutely no attention to American law for 25 years.
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> To steelman means to build the strongest, most charitable version of an opposing argument—even better than the way your opponent stated it—before you criticize or reply to it. It is the exact opposite of a strawman, which is when you intentionally weaken or misrepresent someone's view to make it easy to knock down.