No one in 1789 could have imagined a world with nukes and AK47s.

CalvinBall wrote:Did Trump support any of them? Ward?

McCord was seeking $125,000 in donations from two firms, $25,000 from the managing partner of a Philadelphia law firm and up to $100,000 from the owners of a western Pennsylvania property management firm. He threatened to interfere with the firms’ ability to get state contracts if they did not provide the donation, if he lost the election.

The ensuing debate has revolved around the misleading, false or scurrilous information (‘content’) served to people with the intention of influencing political discourse and elections, a phenomenon come to be labelled ‘fake news’ or‘online disinformation’. Solutions have
focused on transparency measures, exposing the source of information while neglecting the accountability of players in the ecosystem who profit from harmful behaviour. Meanwhile market concentration and the rise of platform dominance present a new threat to media pluralism. For the EDPS, this crisis of confidence in the digital ecosystem illustrates the mutual dependency of privacy and freedom of expression. The diminution of intimate space available to people, as a result of unavoidable surveillance by companies and governments, has a chilling effect on people’s ability and willingness to express themselves and form relationships freely, including in the civic sphere so essential to the health of democracy.

Phred wrote:A PAC got their hands on the security clearance form of a candidate and released part of it. That seems unethical and possibly illegal.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-cia-officer-and-candidate-says-pac-got-her-security-clearance-application

momadance wrote:

Phred wrote:A PAC got their hands on the security clearance form of a candidate and released part of it. That seems unethical and possibly illegal.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-cia-officer-and-candidate-says-pac-got-her-security-clearance-application

This is probably highly illegal. They contain a ton of information.

momadance wrote:

Phred wrote:A PAC got their hands on the security clearance form of a candidate and released part of it. That seems unethical and possibly illegal.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-cia-officer-and-candidate-says-pac-got-her-security-clearance-application

This is probably highly illegal. They contain a ton of information.

thephan wrote:Don McGahn is Don McGone. Leaving 'in the fall'

Republican candidate Ron DeSantis’ general election campaign for governor of Florida got off to an abysmal start on Wednesday morning when he went on Fox News and warned voters not to “monkey this up” by electing his Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum, who would be the first African-American to lead the state.

McGahn did not know about Trump's tweet before it was sent and had not previously discussed his departure plans with POTUS, though it was open secret in the WH. He was surprised, though attitude was "of course it happened this way."

jerseyhoya wrote:

momadance wrote:

Phred wrote:A PAC got their hands on the security clearance form of a candidate and released part of it. That seems unethical and possibly illegal.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-cia-officer-and-candidate-says-pac-got-her-security-clearance-application

This is probably highly illegal. They contain a ton of information.

If they FOIA'd it, that would make it public info and not illegal. If they're lying about how they got it, that would be bad for them. You can FOIA FOIA requests so imagine this will have a resolution soon.

But BuzzFeed News can confirm that an unredacted copy of the federal security clearance application was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by America Rising, a research group allied with the Republican Party, which then shared it with the Congressional Leadership Fund. Spanberger, a Democrat, is challenging Republican Rep. David Brat in a Virginia congressional race that has become surprisingly competitive going into the fall midterm campaign.

Documents viewed by BuzzFeed News show that the request for Spanberger’s entire civilian personnel file was submitted early last month to the National Personnel Records Center, a division of the National Archives. The request, which sought records related to the former CIA officer’s employment dates, salaries, title, and position descriptions, did not explicitly mention the federal security clearance application, known as an SF-86.

The FOIA request specifically sought records from Spanberger’s official personnel folder from the US Postal Inspection Service, where she used to work.