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May 14, 2022
Ron DeSantis Picks New Secretary of State
Not hiding a thing, but he never did.
https://politicalwire.com/2022/05/13/ron-desantis-picks-new-secretary-of-state/
Ron DeSantis Picks New Secretary of State
May 13, 2022 at 6:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) “replaced outgoing Secretary of State Laurel Lee on Friday with state Rep. Cord Byrd (R), who cursed at Black Democratic lawmakers during the session and whose wife has made comments supporting QAnon and the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots,” the Orlando Sentinel reports.
May 13, 2022
Posted on Fri, May 13th, 2022 by Jason Easley
Jen Psaki Blasts Republicans Who Want Biden To Starve Babies In Final Briefing
Jen Psaki hammered Republicans who are demanding that Biden starve babies on the border.
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Jen Psaki Reminds Republicans That Starving Babies Is Against The Law
Psaki said:
Republicans have latched on to starving babies because it plays into both their racism and their fake border crisis. When Republicans talk about baby formula and the border what they really mean is that formula should be taken away from brown babies and be given to white babies.
Democrats should be clearly making the argument that Republicans want to starve children. At the same time as they claim to be “pro-life” when it comes to abortion, Republicans want to starve babies if they arrive at the through no choice of their own.
Jen Psaki gave Democrats a powerful argument that they should use when Republicans start talking about baby formula and the border.
Jen Psaki Blasts Republicans Who Want Biden To Starve Babies In Final Briefing
https://www.politicususa.com/2022/05/13/jen-psaki-blasts-republicans-who-want-biden-to-starve-babies.htmlPosted on Fri, May 13th, 2022 by Jason Easley
Jen Psaki Blasts Republicans Who Want Biden To Starve Babies In Final Briefing
Jen Psaki hammered Republicans who are demanding that Biden starve babies on the border.
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Jen Psaki Reminds Republicans That Starving Babies Is Against The Law
Psaki said:
Let me give you a sense of the facts on this one. There is a Flores settlement that she may or may not be aware of which requires adequate food and elsewhere specifies age appropriateness of formula for kids under the age of one. They are following the law that has been in place and has been followed, by the way, for the past every administration since 1997. This has been a law in the United States for a quarter-century and has been followed I would also note that we think it is morally the right thing to do.
You know, what is the difference from the last administration? It is the law number one, but we believe that babies — or babies, I should say, are crossing the border with a family member, providing them formula is morally right and we certainly support the implementation of it.
You know, what is the difference from the last administration? It is the law number one, but we believe that babies — or babies, I should say, are crossing the border with a family member, providing them formula is morally right and we certainly support the implementation of it.
Republicans have latched on to starving babies because it plays into both their racism and their fake border crisis. When Republicans talk about baby formula and the border what they really mean is that formula should be taken away from brown babies and be given to white babies.
Democrats should be clearly making the argument that Republicans want to starve children. At the same time as they claim to be “pro-life” when it comes to abortion, Republicans want to starve babies if they arrive at the through no choice of their own.
Jen Psaki gave Democrats a powerful argument that they should use when Republicans start talking about baby formula and the border.
May 13, 2022
John Fetterman is redefining how swing-state Democrats campaign
How the Pennsylvania Senate primary became a fight for the future of the Democratic Party.
By Christian Paz@realcpaz May 13, 2022, 6:30am EDT
Who will win Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, May 17, isn’t much of a mystery. John Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, has been leading in polls for months in one of Democrats’ most important races for keeping control of the Senate.
Recent polls show him ahead of his closest challenger, Rep. Conor Lamb — the sort of moderate Democrats typically put forward in Pennsylvania Senate races — by 30 points.
His dominance may seem surprising. But behind it is his success in addressing two pressing problems Democrats have struggled with nationally. That their primary voters tend to favor progressive policies more than general election voters, and their party seems unable to clearly define what it believes and who it’s for: It wants to advance progressive ideas without being branded as leftist, and to strike a balance between elite priorities and blue-collar concerns.
The quirks of his candidacy mean that Fetterman is able to find a balance between extremes. A longtime politician, he’s promoted progressive causes in the state while also bending to practical, populist concerns. And he’s done much of that while wearing Carhartt hoodies and basketball shorts.
That’s not to say Fetterman has a lock on the general election. But if Fetterman wins, he and Democratic voters will be making a bet: An unconventional, but authentic candidate who is progressive enough to win a Democratic primary won’t doom the party in a general election.
more...
https://www.vox.com/23068819/democrats-pennsylvania-senate-primary-progressive-moderate
John Fetterman is redefining how swing-state Democrats campaign
John Fetterman is redefining how swing-state Democrats campaign
How the Pennsylvania Senate primary became a fight for the future of the Democratic Party.
By Christian Paz@realcpaz May 13, 2022, 6:30am EDT
Who will win Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, May 17, isn’t much of a mystery. John Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, has been leading in polls for months in one of Democrats’ most important races for keeping control of the Senate.
Recent polls show him ahead of his closest challenger, Rep. Conor Lamb — the sort of moderate Democrats typically put forward in Pennsylvania Senate races — by 30 points.
His dominance may seem surprising. But behind it is his success in addressing two pressing problems Democrats have struggled with nationally. That their primary voters tend to favor progressive policies more than general election voters, and their party seems unable to clearly define what it believes and who it’s for: It wants to advance progressive ideas without being branded as leftist, and to strike a balance between elite priorities and blue-collar concerns.
The quirks of his candidacy mean that Fetterman is able to find a balance between extremes. A longtime politician, he’s promoted progressive causes in the state while also bending to practical, populist concerns. And he’s done much of that while wearing Carhartt hoodies and basketball shorts.
That’s not to say Fetterman has a lock on the general election. But if Fetterman wins, he and Democratic voters will be making a bet: An unconventional, but authentic candidate who is progressive enough to win a Democratic primary won’t doom the party in a general election.
more...
https://www.vox.com/23068819/democrats-pennsylvania-senate-primary-progressive-moderate
May 13, 2022
Prepare for McCarthy-era crackdowns on pro-choice protesters
Andrew Perez and David Sirota
Conservatives and corporate media pundits want to use a Red Scare statute to arrest people demonstrating against the looming anti-abortion victory
Fri 13 May 2022 06.16 EDT
Last modified on Fri 13 May 2022 09.01 EDT
Even as the Democrats’ feeble legislative attempt to codify federal protections for abortion rights goes down in flames, many Washington elites are directing their attention and anger towards the same target: no, not rightwing judges reaching their ideological hands into millions of people’s bodies, but instead the protesters peacefully demonstrating outside the homes of supreme court justices who are about to overturn Roe v Wade.
Prominent Republican lawmakers, conservative operatives and Beltway pundits are demanding the government arrest demonstrators – and to do so, they are citing a McCarthy-era statute passed to stop people from protesting against the prosecutions of alleged communists. Ignored in the discourse is a past ruling from the supreme court effectively blessing conservative protests at the homes of abortion clinic workers.
The largely manufactured outrage is the latest distraction designed to shift attention away from the issue at hand: the US supreme court’s conservative supermajority is about to deny basic reproductive rights to tens of millions of people in roughly half the country.
Conservative operatives want Washington reporters focused on inane questions like who leaked the court’s draft opinion, and they want journalists and Democrats to criticize protesters who are outraged by the court’s overriding lack of respect for people’s bodily autonomy. It is part of a larger rightwing movement in recent years to cancel, criminalize and literally crush dissent throughout the country, even as the conservative political noise machine continues to blare Braveheart-esque screams of “freedom!” against so-called “cancel culture”.
Corporate news outlets are taking the bait, fretting about the leak and calling for arrests over peaceful demonstrations. Like usual, they are focused on narrow flashpoints of anger and upheaval that will likely prove temporary, rather than the far more sweeping and ominous impact of the court’s looming ruling to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision and allow states to force people to carry their pregnancies to term.
more...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/13/abortion-pro-choice-joseph-mccarthy-red-scare
Prepare for McCarthy-era crackdowns on pro-choice protesters
Prepare for McCarthy-era crackdowns on pro-choice protesters
Andrew Perez and David Sirota
Conservatives and corporate media pundits want to use a Red Scare statute to arrest people demonstrating against the looming anti-abortion victory
Fri 13 May 2022 06.16 EDT
Last modified on Fri 13 May 2022 09.01 EDT
Even as the Democrats’ feeble legislative attempt to codify federal protections for abortion rights goes down in flames, many Washington elites are directing their attention and anger towards the same target: no, not rightwing judges reaching their ideological hands into millions of people’s bodies, but instead the protesters peacefully demonstrating outside the homes of supreme court justices who are about to overturn Roe v Wade.
Prominent Republican lawmakers, conservative operatives and Beltway pundits are demanding the government arrest demonstrators – and to do so, they are citing a McCarthy-era statute passed to stop people from protesting against the prosecutions of alleged communists. Ignored in the discourse is a past ruling from the supreme court effectively blessing conservative protests at the homes of abortion clinic workers.
The largely manufactured outrage is the latest distraction designed to shift attention away from the issue at hand: the US supreme court’s conservative supermajority is about to deny basic reproductive rights to tens of millions of people in roughly half the country.
Conservative operatives want Washington reporters focused on inane questions like who leaked the court’s draft opinion, and they want journalists and Democrats to criticize protesters who are outraged by the court’s overriding lack of respect for people’s bodily autonomy. It is part of a larger rightwing movement in recent years to cancel, criminalize and literally crush dissent throughout the country, even as the conservative political noise machine continues to blare Braveheart-esque screams of “freedom!” against so-called “cancel culture”.
Corporate news outlets are taking the bait, fretting about the leak and calling for arrests over peaceful demonstrations. Like usual, they are focused on narrow flashpoints of anger and upheaval that will likely prove temporary, rather than the far more sweeping and ominous impact of the court’s looming ruling to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision and allow states to force people to carry their pregnancies to term.
more...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/13/abortion-pro-choice-joseph-mccarthy-red-scare
May 13, 2022
In a report released Thursday, the committee alleges that Tyson Foods’s legal team prepared a draft with input from other companies that became the basis for an executive order to keep the plants open the Trump administration issued in April 2020, making it difficult for workers to stay home.
“Meatpacking companies knew the risk posed by the coronavirus to their workers and knew it wasn’t a risk that the country needed them to take,” according to the report by the select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis. “They nonetheless lobbied aggressively — successfully enlisting USDA as a close collaborator in their efforts — to keep workers on the job in unsafe conditions, to ensure state and local health authorities were powerless to mandate otherwise, and to be protected against legal liability for the harms that would result.”
Meat Packers Manufactured Pandemic Meat 'Crisis' To Stay Open
All those people died; I hope someone pays for this deceit. 
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/05/meat-packers-manufactured-pandemic-meat
Meat Packers Manufactured Pandemic Meat 'Crisis' To Stay Open
At least 269 workers died.
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By Susie Madrak — May 12, 2022
The entire Trump administration was one giant experiment in allowing businesses to go unregulated and regulations to go unenforced, and we now know that's what happened with meat processing plants during the pandemic. Via the Washington Post:
The biggest players in the U.S. meat industry pressed “baseless” claims of beef and pork shortages early in the pandemic to persuade the Trump White House to keep processing plants running, disregarding the coronavirus risks that eventually killed at least 269 workers, according to a special House committee investigating the nation’s pandemic response.
In a report released Thursday, the committee alleges that Tyson Foods’s legal team prepared a draft with input from other companies that became the basis for an executive order to keep the plants open the Trump administration issued in April 2020, making it difficult for workers to stay home.
“Meatpacking companies knew the risk posed by the coronavirus to their workers and knew it wasn’t a risk that the country needed them to take,” according to the report by the select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis. “They nonetheless lobbied aggressively — successfully enlisting USDA as a close collaborator in their efforts — to keep workers on the job in unsafe conditions, to ensure state and local health authorities were powerless to mandate otherwise, and to be protected against legal liability for the harms that would result.”
May 13, 2022
U.K. Hits Putin’s Rumored Baby Mama With String of Sanctions
DADDY LESSONS
British sanctions targeting Kabaeva also target her grandmother as well as Putin’s ex-wife, Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, and several other associates and family members.
Shannon Vavra
National Security Reporter
Updated May. 13, 2022 7:38AM ET / Published May. 13, 2022 7:29AM ET
The British government on Friday sanctioned Alina Kabaeva, the Olympic champion gymnast who is allegedly Vladimir Putin’s longtime lover and mother of some of his children, in a move expected to rile the Russian president as his war in Ukraine nears its 80th day.
Countries around the world have been working to cut off Putin and his inner circle of oligarchs and cronies since his February invasion of Ukraine as a way to crank up the pressure on Moscow and cut key allies off from the world financial system. But the pressure is growing to expand that list to include his family members and closest allies to make the sanctions sting.
The British sanctions targeting Kabaeva also target her grandmother, Anna Zatseplina, as well as Putin’s ex-wife, Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, and several other associates and family members.
more...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alina-kabaeva-vladimir-putins-rumored-secret-lover-and-mother-of-his-kids-hit-with-string-of-uk-sanctions?ref=home?ref=home
U.K. Hits Putin's Rumored Baby Mama With String of Sanctions
U.K. Hits Putin’s Rumored Baby Mama With String of Sanctions
DADDY LESSONS
British sanctions targeting Kabaeva also target her grandmother as well as Putin’s ex-wife, Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, and several other associates and family members.
Shannon Vavra
National Security Reporter
Updated May. 13, 2022 7:38AM ET / Published May. 13, 2022 7:29AM ET
The British government on Friday sanctioned Alina Kabaeva, the Olympic champion gymnast who is allegedly Vladimir Putin’s longtime lover and mother of some of his children, in a move expected to rile the Russian president as his war in Ukraine nears its 80th day.
“Today’s sanctions will hit this cabal who owe Putin their wealth and power, and in turn support Putin and his war machine,” the British government said in a release.
Countries around the world have been working to cut off Putin and his inner circle of oligarchs and cronies since his February invasion of Ukraine as a way to crank up the pressure on Moscow and cut key allies off from the world financial system. But the pressure is growing to expand that list to include his family members and closest allies to make the sanctions sting.
The British sanctions targeting Kabaeva also target her grandmother, Anna Zatseplina, as well as Putin’s ex-wife, Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, and several other associates and family members.
more...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alina-kabaeva-vladimir-putins-rumored-secret-lover-and-mother-of-his-kids-hit-with-string-of-uk-sanctions?ref=home?ref=home
May 13, 2022
A timely new HBO doc chronicles a secret group of women who provided abortions
May 7, 20225:44 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
A new documentary tells the story of "The Jane Collective," a group that helped women with nowhere else to turn for a safe abortion, in the days before Roe v. Wade.
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
The leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court signaling an intention to overturn Roe v. Wade makes HBO's upcoming documentary "The Janes" extremely timely. It chronicles the real-life story of a group of women who helped those seeking abortions in Chicago more than 50 years ago. NPR's Mandalit del Barco has this report.
more...
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/07/1097434987/a-timely-new-hbo-doc-chronicles-a-secret-group-of-women-who-provided-abortions
A timely new HBO doc chronicles a secret group of women who provided abortions
A timely new HBO doc chronicles a secret group of women who provided abortions
May 7, 20225:44 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
A new documentary tells the story of "The Jane Collective," a group that helped women with nowhere else to turn for a safe abortion, in the days before Roe v. Wade.
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
The leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court signaling an intention to overturn Roe v. Wade makes HBO's upcoming documentary "The Janes" extremely timely. It chronicles the real-life story of a group of women who helped those seeking abortions in Chicago more than 50 years ago. NPR's Mandalit del Barco has this report.
more...
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/07/1097434987/a-timely-new-hbo-doc-chronicles-a-secret-group-of-women-who-provided-abortions
May 12, 2022
They Had a Duty to Speak Up
May 12, 2022 at 2:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
They Had a Duty to Speak Up
https://politicalwire.com/2022/05/12/they-had-a-duty-to-speak-up/They Had a Duty to Speak Up
May 12, 2022 at 2:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Tom Nichols: “Even if we cut some slack for Esper and all the others who served as honorably and conscientiously as they could until they were faced with either the dead end of resignation or being fired, the fact is that these men and women remained silent for far too long once they were out of government service. They held back important things that the American people and their elected representatives needed to know. They kept them as their own personal secrets, either out of some misplaced sense of bureaucratic propriety, or because they had a book deal and didn’t want to steal their own thunder from release day.”
“They had a duty to speak up sooner. And they failed in that duty.”
“Esper, Mattis, Tillerson, and many, many other people who crawled through the Shawshank sewer pipe that was the four years of the Trump administration needed to speak up the minute they were out. Instead, they teased their book bombshells or played coy games of slap and tickle on cable outlets.”
“They had a duty to speak up sooner. And they failed in that duty.”
“Esper, Mattis, Tillerson, and many, many other people who crawled through the Shawshank sewer pipe that was the four years of the Trump administration needed to speak up the minute they were out. Instead, they teased their book bombshells or played coy games of slap and tickle on cable outlets.”
May 12, 2022
Jen Psaki’s legacy? One of the best press secretaries ever.
During her last week at the White House, we look back on her tenure and the integrity she brought to the job.
By: Tom Jones
May 12, 2022
Respect for Jen Psaki
This is Jen Psaki’s final week as White House press secretary, so today is a good day to offer up a few from-afar thoughts on her tenure.
Psaki will go down as one of the best to ever hold the title of White House press secretary. Even when Chris Wallace was at Fox News, a frequent critic of the current administration, he called Psaki one of the best ever.
Psaki has restored honor, dignity and class to the White House briefing room after four years of Donald Trump press secretaries, who seemed more interested in picking fights and criticizing the media than effectively communicating that administration’s policies and agenda.
snip//
Psaki was consistently prepared, effective in communicating for the president and, even when sparring with media members, always respectful. Even her frequent foe in the White House briefing room — Fox News’ Peter Doocy — had kind words for her when she announced she was leaving the post. (And Psaki was kind in return.) Doocy told Psaki, “You’ve always been a good sport. So on behalf of everybody, thank you for everything.”
So why is Psaki, who is so good at her job, leaving? Last weekend, appearing on Fox News’ “Media Buzz,” she told host Howie Kurtz, “I’m leaving because I have a 4-year-old and a 6-year-old. They’re the most important people in my life. And my husband, of course, and I always knew that having worked in the White House before, that this was not a job I could do forever. It is a huge honor to do it, no matter where you are in your life. But I don’t want to miss things with my kids and I don’t want to miss moments or soccer practices or ballet recitals or anything.”
She added, “This is the greatest job I’ve ever had. Maybe the greatest job I (will) ever have. I don’t know. And it has surpassed my expectations in so many ways, in that I’ve learned something new every single day.”
more...
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022/jen-psakis-legacy-one-of-the-best-press-secretaries-ever/
Jen Psaki's legacy? One of the best press secretaries ever.
Jen Psaki’s legacy? One of the best press secretaries ever.
During her last week at the White House, we look back on her tenure and the integrity she brought to the job.
By: Tom Jones
May 12, 2022
Respect for Jen Psaki
This is Jen Psaki’s final week as White House press secretary, so today is a good day to offer up a few from-afar thoughts on her tenure.
Psaki will go down as one of the best to ever hold the title of White House press secretary. Even when Chris Wallace was at Fox News, a frequent critic of the current administration, he called Psaki one of the best ever.
Psaki has restored honor, dignity and class to the White House briefing room after four years of Donald Trump press secretaries, who seemed more interested in picking fights and criticizing the media than effectively communicating that administration’s policies and agenda.
snip//
Psaki was consistently prepared, effective in communicating for the president and, even when sparring with media members, always respectful. Even her frequent foe in the White House briefing room — Fox News’ Peter Doocy — had kind words for her when she announced she was leaving the post. (And Psaki was kind in return.) Doocy told Psaki, “You’ve always been a good sport. So on behalf of everybody, thank you for everything.”
So why is Psaki, who is so good at her job, leaving? Last weekend, appearing on Fox News’ “Media Buzz,” she told host Howie Kurtz, “I’m leaving because I have a 4-year-old and a 6-year-old. They’re the most important people in my life. And my husband, of course, and I always knew that having worked in the White House before, that this was not a job I could do forever. It is a huge honor to do it, no matter where you are in your life. But I don’t want to miss things with my kids and I don’t want to miss moments or soccer practices or ballet recitals or anything.”
She added, “This is the greatest job I’ve ever had. Maybe the greatest job I (will) ever have. I don’t know. And it has surpassed my expectations in so many ways, in that I’ve learned something new every single day.”
more...
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022/jen-psakis-legacy-one-of-the-best-press-secretaries-ever/
May 12, 2022
Posted on Tue, May 10th, 2022 by Jason Miciak
Fmr. Sec. of Defense Esper: Trump Was the Biggest Leaker of All
Americans might like to think that our Pentagon and military leadership in the White House operate on a higher plane and that leaks at that level are rare. But former Secretary of Defense Esper says that, at least in the Trump administration, not only were they common, not only were they hurtful, not only did they often twist the truth, but that the Commander in Chief was also the chief leaker. The one guy that couldn’t be fired and self-anointed global strategist, Trump, often decided what he would leak and to whom. It is even scarier when one considers that Trump had a special affinity for our chief adversary, the Russians.
According to Business Insider:
It is probably difficult for those of us who didn’t serve how dispiriting this would be to those who did serve and were made aware of the importance of keeping information, even personal gossip (which can then become kompromat) secret. Our military operates on a large presumption of secrecy. One of the most tightly guarded secrets in the Navy is the location of our submarines at any given time. It is so secret that many of the sailors on the sub don’t know their location in their theatre.
Small details, analyzed by the right people, can lead to major revelations. And so once again we hear yet another example as to just how reckless and plain old stupid the last president could be.
The world is safer right now than two and a half years ago. That’s no secret.
https://twitter.com/jchaltiwanger/status/1523984823060250626
Fmr. Sec. of Defense Esper: Trump Was the Biggest Leaker of All
https://www.politicususa.com/2022/05/10/fmr-sec-of-defense-esper-trump-was-the-biggest-leaker-of-all.htmlPosted on Tue, May 10th, 2022 by Jason Miciak
Fmr. Sec. of Defense Esper: Trump Was the Biggest Leaker of All
Americans might like to think that our Pentagon and military leadership in the White House operate on a higher plane and that leaks at that level are rare. But former Secretary of Defense Esper says that, at least in the Trump administration, not only were they common, not only were they hurtful, not only did they often twist the truth, but that the Commander in Chief was also the chief leaker. The one guy that couldn’t be fired and self-anointed global strategist, Trump, often decided what he would leak and to whom. It is even scarier when one considers that Trump had a special affinity for our chief adversary, the Russians.
According to Business Insider:
“The individual motivations for the leaks ranged from advancing a preferred policy outcome to enhancing the leaker’s own role or credentials to currying favor with the president.
“It was a noxious behavior learned from the top. The president was the biggest leaker of all. “It turned colleague against colleague, department against department, and it was generally bad for the administration and the country.
“Nobody wanted to see their name in the morning news, especially when the words were so often twisted, misinterpreted, and taken out of context. “In the Trump administration, this could get you blacklisted or fired.” – Former Defense Sec. Mark Esper, in his new book.
“It was a noxious behavior learned from the top. The president was the biggest leaker of all. “It turned colleague against colleague, department against department, and it was generally bad for the administration and the country.
“Nobody wanted to see their name in the morning news, especially when the words were so often twisted, misinterpreted, and taken out of context. “In the Trump administration, this could get you blacklisted or fired.” – Former Defense Sec. Mark Esper, in his new book.
It is probably difficult for those of us who didn’t serve how dispiriting this would be to those who did serve and were made aware of the importance of keeping information, even personal gossip (which can then become kompromat) secret. Our military operates on a large presumption of secrecy. One of the most tightly guarded secrets in the Navy is the location of our submarines at any given time. It is so secret that many of the sailors on the sub don’t know their location in their theatre.
Small details, analyzed by the right people, can lead to major revelations. And so once again we hear yet another example as to just how reckless and plain old stupid the last president could be.
The world is safer right now than two and a half years ago. That’s no secret.
https://twitter.com/jchaltiwanger/status/1523984823060250626
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