Down the Classified Rabbit Hole
And into the Mystic
Regarding classified documents, Marcy Wheeler (noted researcher/data untangler) provided this yesterday:
There’s a book coming out in mid-February by a long time researcher of our national security classification system.1 I heard Jon Stewart interview him. I don’t claim expertise in this area but from the two longtime military members I know, it conforms to their assessments that 75% or more of classified documents don’t have any impact on our national security or standard diplomacy.
Most of that is censorship, shielding decision-makers from public awareness of their policy successes and failures. I’m not talking about shielding field agents, spooks and spy networks. I mean the elected, appointed or promoted decision-makers that must be accountable to the public, as the Cold War-built secrecy system is no longer able to serve us well in a healthy democracy.
The author emphasizes that the outdated system of gathering data and classifying it has reached a level of STA-PUFT malignancy that nobody knows how to restrain, fix, reform, or provide any logical explanation for.
So, as a lot of focus is on Donald’s, Joe’s and Mike’s document handling, with all the justified concern for the distinctions that stand out between the standard and logical handling of mis-placed or mis-packed documents that Joe’s & Mike’s staffs provided and the degree of cooperation from the Keystone Cop buffoonery of the staff and legal teams of the World’s Worst Apprentice, just be ready, there’s an anti-climax ahead.
I don’t believe there’ll be indictments ahead on documents unless someone gets caught actually selling secrets.
The NSA doesn’t want any documents identified, nor details leaked that a trial of anyone in the trio would inevitably provoke.
If the strange ex-president is to be indicted and face a jury, I expect it will occur for his other ‘misdeeds’. This classification system can’t survive legal or public scrutiny so this is a sideshow the NSA prefers to avoid.
The strange ex-president, the Fraudfather, left his fingerprints everywhere on a long rap sheet of crimes and lost court cases, so there’s several easier streets to a conviction for a justice-focused prosecutor when the targets are people in the inner circle of a public figure of this maga-tude.
Even without the revelations of Joe & Mike, I don’t think the DOJ would go after a president for obstruction. Evidence of actual espionage would be a different matter and nothing revealed to date has demonstrated that… yet.
Another reason I don't do readings or ritual sacrifices.
Ladies and gents, here’s Marc Broussard.
Still not watching videos. I hate watching videos online. However, I read everything you write voraciously.