It is illegal in that unit anyone else in government holding a clearance would be arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced for doing what they did. It’s also a civil violation of the records act.

This exactly. We live in WWE-land and this a Raw Smackdown move if ever there was one.

Hillary was investigated by two House Select Committee headed by Republicans and by the IG at State in Trump’s first term. She was not found to have done anything other then exercise poor judgement.

No matter what Twitter-pates republicans think, the left was correct to shrug.

I am inclined to agree. The utter lack of caring by the administration is traction and the GOP on the Hill is the tell. They will make this a feature not a bug and move on.

Those of us below SecDef and DNI level who hold or held clearances would already have been arrested for this.

But her emails!

So you agree that political speech the president doesn’t like is grounds for expulsion? Weird flex but you do you.

Today’s Senate Intel Committee hearing revealed the Mid East envoy in the chat was in Moscow as it was happening.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/dark-enlightenment-rising-the-billionaire-071?r=v677&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

So Hamas does the things it agreed to in the initial cease fire, then entered into negotiations for the next phase and the proper Israeli response is to resume bombing civilians? And hamas is the only party here with agency?

Weird flex dude.

Why shouldn’t she be? She controls the people who would have to enforce any contempt citations against her.

We are

The system was already a mockery precisely as you describe. Remain in Mexico was always framed as a COVID response so once the pandemic ended keeping it in place would have made a mockery.

Obama deported more people in his first four years than Trump did. Ditto Biden. Both of them also tried to get Congress to fix the system. It’s was never about immigration policy.

It’s dishonest to demand that people abandon policies they aren’t advocating for.

Peace through strength Lee.

Ask the republicans who keep passing these bills. I agree it makes little sense but here we are.

While we are avoiding discussing the downfall of the republicans, let’s whistle past some very misogynistic voter suppression, shall we?

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-11/nhs-new-id-requirements-send-some-would-be-voters-home-to-grab-passports-birth-certificates?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1tovOUKBR1BG4a06Hy-j4bKLYugsFC_PIPaz1h0YrMu6dr0AVxO9z2vXs_aem_SYw1hxju-IDbCZnI37J8sw

I am not one bit surprised that this is what OT has devolved to. What’s left of the commentariat outside you, Slade, CJ, and Saul would sooner die then admit TFG is a danger to America. So articles like this are approved because the give the people what they apparently want:

Hahahahahaha!

You got okayed. Again.

Hahahahahahaha.

You offer people a choice - a real diametrically opposed clear choice - not GOP light.

We have met the enemy - and they is us.

https://theintellectualist.com/black-saturday-us-constitutional-crisis-2025/

Of course it’s Trump running his mouth. But that’s different than any other day how?

I also don’t think Biden making an announcement now is going g to do anything to refute this for the people
Who believe he didn’t know the first time - his statement form the WH on issuing these not withstanding. They want him to be one and doddering and senile and out of touch no matter what the truth is.

You get that they are the exception right?

So once again you don’t see the righting of the past institutional wrongs that denied women, people of color and religious minorities an education as a core mission of public universities. Got it.

Co graduations then in drawing us into another Jaybird time suck that leads precisely nowhere.