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dwalk31

'We want them infected,' Trump HHS appointee said in email pushing to expose infants, kids and teens to Covid to reach 'herd immunity'

During his time at HHS, Paul Alexander also allegedly directly meddled with Covid-related studies published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

www.cnbc.com

 

[sneeker]

the level of stupidity these people can use just to excuse a crime.

 

[gry60]

Declassification Frequently Asked Questions

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IS RESTRICTED DATA (RD)/FORMERLY RESTRICTED DATA (FRD) SUBJECT TO AUTOMATIC DECLASSIFICATION?

No. RD/FRD is classified under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and is excluded from any provision of the Order. Only designated officials within the Department of Energy (DOE) may declassify RD/FRD records. Any record determined to contain RD/FRD may not be reviewed for declassification of national security information until the Secretary of Energy, or the Secretary of Energy in conjunction with the Secretary of Defense for FRD, has determined that the RD/FRD markings may be removed. Classified national security information in RD/FRD records is subject to the Order, and will be referred to the DOE and appropriate other government agencies.

Presidential Power to Declassify Information, Explained

While it is legally irrelevant, former President Donald J. Trump claims he had declassified the top secret files the F.B.I. seized at his Florida residence.

www.nytimes.com

What about nuclear secrets?​

They are distinct, although for purposes of criminal law there is little substantive difference.
Congress has passed a law, the Atomic Energy Act, that imposes its own legal restrictions on mishandling information about how to build a nuclear bomb or enrich nuclear material. Such information is called “restricted data.” Legally, it is not the same thing as being “classified” under the executive order, although in everyday parlance people often refer to it as classified.

The law established a process for making decisions about downgrading such protections. For those involving military weapons, Congress mandated that the decision be made jointly by senior officials at the Energy and Defense Departments; if the two departments disagree about whether or not to do so, the law says the president makes the final determination. So at a minimum, those officials must be involved in any decision to downgrade nuclear weapons information into so-called formerly restricted data.
The Atomic Energy Act made it a crime for officials to disclose restricted data without authorization. But whether or not dangerous nuclear weapons information remains deemed to be restricted data, the Espionage Act separately makes its unauthorized retention or disclosure a crime.

Can a president secretly declassify information without leaving a written record or telling anyone?​

That question, according to specialists in the law of government secrecy, is borderline incoherent.
If there is no directive memorializing a decision to declassify information and conveying it to the rest of the government, the action would essentially have no consequence, as departments and agencies would continue to consider that information classified and so would continue to restrict access to documents containing it.
“Hypothetical questions like ‘What if a president thinks to himself that something is declassified? Does that change its status?’ are so speculative that their practical meaning is negligible,” said Steven Aftergood, a secrecy specialist with the Federation of American Scientists.
He added: “It’s a logical mess. The system is not meant to be deployed in such an arbitrary fashion.”

 

[Mark Antony]

Please go to war with the FBI so they can finally aggressively act on their intel.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

Light their ***es up! These wannabe soldiers wildin with their egos thinking they can challenge well-equipped and trained officers.

 

[cosmiccoffee9]

two people have just thrown themselves in the blender for this guy in like the last 72 hours or so...like, spectacularly.

still I find it kinda hard to root for the FBI even now, so I am glad "bullets from an officer's gun" can act on their own, like when they so often "leave man dead."

...so let's go Bullets I guess.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

 

[had pants]

 

[elpablo21]

still I find it kinda hard to root for the FBI

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Also we're gonna get January 6th part 2 aren't we?

 

[Mark Antony]

FBI was really just sitting on data, conflicted about taking down their people until they decided to run up on them with the heat.

 

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Also we're gonna get January 6th part 2 aren't we?

Spoiler

F the cowboys

 

[sneeker]

Spoiler

F the cowboys

Agree.

 

[mplsdunk]

I’ll never do jury duty. For one it’s not my responsibility to have someone’s life in my hands. Two it’s just wack.

My wife kept getting called and she kept saying bs to get out of it.

 

[sneeker]

Light their ***es up! These wannabe soldiers wildin with their egos thinking they can challenge well-equipped and trained officers.

In the end, we know they are just cowards acting like they're cool dudes with guns. The Cincinnati shooter ran away like a coward that he is when he saw that the fbi won't have any of that b.s. guess those Madga protesters got the memo and kept it as peaceful as possible.

 

[dinyc3st]

Naw that’s ya man’s, Trump


And now MAGA clowns trying to cancel him:




I ain’t mad tho lmao

 

[dinyc3st]

Side note:

John McCain was a real one. And I bet if that lady is still around she prolly dripped out with MAGA merch:

 

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[flyeed]

Feel like just a month ago R’s had all the momentum going into midterms. Now these cats are going to war with the FBI. I’d think the people feeling this all are the same ones that would vote R anyways, and this can’t be a good look in the eyes of the boomer “independent”/“undecided” type

 

[sneeker]

Side note:

John McCain was a real one. And I bet if that lady is still around she prolly dripped out with MAGA merch:

This is why I highly respect John McCain and defend him. We know he's not perfect but knows righteousness peace and decency. Possibly could have been president if not for Obamas overwhelming popularity.

 

[elpablo21]

 

[Wargames]

Feel like just a month ago R’s had all the momentum going into midterms. Now these cats are going to war with the FBI. I’d think the people feeling this all are the same ones that would vote R anyways, and this can’t be a good look in the eyes of the boomer “independent”/“undecided” type

They ain’t been right since Roe was overturned. I keep saying being that malicious while asking for votes takes Batman level prep time and they haven’t been ahead of the 8 ball since then.

 

[Wargames]

They should call Jessica Eminem because she just killed them on their own ****.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Side note:

John McCain was a real one. And I bet if that lady is still around she prolly dripped out with MAGA merch:

No he ******* wasn't

He was a clown too. Just a smaller clown

 

[Methodical Management]

John McCain was a real one.

Let's not ignore that, in response to the claim that Barack Obama is "an Arab," McCain's initial response was to call him a "decent family man", as if the two are mutually exclusive.

This same guy, who nominated Sarah Palin as his VP and refused to stop using a racist slur, declared racism over the instant he lost in 2008:

I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Sen. Obama believes that, too. But we both recognize that though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.

A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to visit — to dine at the White House — was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and prideful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States. Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.