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August 29, 2022

PA-SEN: Dr. Oz gets trolled right to his face, and doesn't even realize it.

https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1563962330190213121?s=20&t=dj6fZBOQCH-siQEDW564bg


Mike Sington

@MikeSington
Dr. Oz gets trolled right to his face, and doesn’t even realize it.
August 28, 2022

National Archives Hit with Wave of Threats

In the nearly three weeks since the FBI searched former president Donald Trump’s Florida home to recover classified documents, the National Archives and Records Administration has become the target of a rash of threats and vitriol, according to people familiar with the situation. Civil servants tasked by law with preserving and securing the U.S. government’s records were rattled.

On Wednesday, the agency’s head sent an email to the staff. Though academic and suffuse with legal references, the message from acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall was simple: Stay above the fray and stick to the mission.

“NARA has received messages from the public accusing us of corruption and conspiring against the former President, or congratulating NARA for ‘bringing him down,’ ” Steidel Wall wrote in the agencywide message, which was obtained by The Washington Post. “Neither is accurate or welcome.”

The email capped a year-long saga that has embroiled the Archives — widely known for being featured in the 2004 Nicolas Cage movie, “National Treasure” — in a protracted fight with Trump over classified documents and other records that were taken when he left office.

Archives officials have emailed, called and cajoled the former president and his representatives to follow the law and return the documents. When the Archives recovered 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago in January, agency officials found a mess of disorganized papers lacking any inventory. Highly classified material was mixed in with newspaper clippings and dinner menus. And Archives officials believed more items were still missing.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/27/trump-archives-records-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics

August 27, 2022

2021: CIA sent cable warning an unusually number of confidential informants were being killed.

https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1563356586373877760?s=20&t=DllOZz9ClGOMBNbiW_SYgQ


Tristan Snell

@TristanSnell
POTENTIALLY MASSIVE in light of what we know now:

In Oct 2021, CIA Counterintelligence sent a top secret cable warning an unusually number of confidential informants were being killed, captured, or compromised.

In Jan 2021, Trump stole documents on these kind of informants.

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