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altaG12 13 points ago +14 / -1

this is stupid. He already issued the order to declassify everything and what happened. Swamp rats in DOJ either held the documents back, slow walked it, or redacted everything.

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altaG12 1 point ago +4 / -3

Ohhh is that the way it works?? Tell me, do you work in the government?

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bear__aware 1 point ago +2 / -1

i think it's all sitting in archive under physical and digital lock and key, so you have a lot of potentially defiant people standing in your way. if you just pick some random low level guy he won't have access.

but you could march in with an army at your back i suppose, and order each one of them to tell you where is the data, unlock the door, plug in that hard drive, enter the encryption key, etc. i agree he probably has authority to do this but of course there would be a potentially very destabilizing counter move by the deep state if he tries

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altaG12 -1 points ago +2 / -3

Oh really, in what capacity? What was your position? What was your role?

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prayharder 1 point ago +2 / -1

This reminds me of the movie "Thirteen Days" where JFK's assistant was calling air force bases and speaking to pilots directly, asking them to go against orders from their higher ups, in order to save the world.