“soon afterwards” was meant to be more of a throwaway qualifier than a main point. The claim (not made my me and I’m not sure if I endorse it) is that the people who can write up the transcripts effectively (esp. if there’s any kind of distillation work going on) would already have more important things they are already capable of doing.
Well if they’re incompetent, that enhances the plausible deniability aspect (‘If there was anything in the conversation that didn’t make sense on reflection, they could say “oh it was probably the secretary’s mistake in transcribing the conversation”.’) It also might be a way to quickly evaluate someone’s distillation ability.
“soon afterwards” was meant to be more of a throwaway qualifier than a main point. The claim (not made my me and I’m not sure if I endorse it) is that the people who can write up the transcripts effectively (esp. if there’s any kind of distillation work going on) would already have more important things they are already capable of doing.
Well if they’re incompetent, that enhances the plausible deniability aspect (‘If there was anything in the conversation that didn’t make sense on reflection, they could say “oh it was probably the secretary’s mistake in transcribing the conversation”.’) It also might be a way to quickly evaluate someone’s distillation ability.