An Evening With A White Hat
Greetings!
We move from FC#97 into new territory today.
I once again had the pleasure to speak to our WH contact this evening. He was very generous with his time, as always, his responsibilities and charges notwithstanding. He took some time to answer some questions, and a summary of those answers will follow.
First, some introductory remarks.
I apologize for not closing the last thread and moving on faster. With over 600 comments, it was a real effort to moderate. I thank you all for largely conducting yourselves in an adult manner. Please continue to do so and set a good example to the world-wide readership, which includes some very key people, including 80 law firms and some 1200-1500 people working on things for which you all have an interest in.
In earlier times we spent a lot of our resources taking various “intel providers” and “awareness bloggers” to task for their shoddy work in announcing “deliveries and RV’s” when no such things had occurred, and for making outlandish, unsubstantiated claims about the potential rates of anticipated revaluations of two currencies, with amazing alacrity. Our reasons were simple – we wanted people to have the truth about these activities since so many of you are staking your future on them. For too long, people have been making decisions on less than substantiated knowledge of just what they should realistically expect. Well, we have compiled what we feel is a pretty solid collection of data from those in the trenches and it has been our pleasure to bring this information to you, when possible.
Of course, not everything that is known is shared. The sensitive nature of this event is such that this blog is carefully watched by some pretty powerful groups which I do not need to name. As such, please remember this, and do not think that we are lax with our questions since not everything you want to know can be asked, and further, not everything you want to ask, is known. Those of you who are staking your future on events we are monitoring would not appreciate if we posted something that created ripples across the Internet and caused needless work for those working on this matter, or cause delays. Good heavens! I would promptly drive to the nearest Benihana’s and pay one of their chef’s to effect ritual seppuku on me, rather than cause delays because of irresponsible behavior with this effort to inform. Such has inadvertently happened once. It must never, never happen again.
We call this association an “auxiliary” for a reason. This separates us from the front line troops working on what has been described as the largest financial transaction in the history of the word. I sometimes indulge my passion for Roman History by reading accounts of auxiliary troops being called up to the front lines when they were in danger of faltering. Auxiliaries were often times non-citizens, and such a distinction then, as now, is important to understand since we are not White Hats, and are not on the front lines. The front lines are manned by exceptional people with the talents, skills and resources to complete their tasks. For that, we owe them our respect and to be responsible with what we are allowed to know at this time. They will never have to call us up to plug holes in the lines, and thank goodness for that, since many, if not all of us, do not possess credentials to work at such extreme levels of international finance and law.
With the foregoing in mind, I will proceed.
