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Probably a combination of:

A) People seeing this play out in their own lives enough to relate it to this experience B) That the quote wasn't "No", it was "shut up and go color", lmao

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If you re-read that portion of the article, the State Department rep used that phrase to paraphrase the NSA's response. That was not the actual response; nobody who wants to keep their job communicates inter-agency like that.

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