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George Cornell's avatar

Just for context May I add the following:

One petabyte of data is equivalent to 13.3 years of high-definition video, or all of the content in the U.S. Library of Congress — by its own claim the largest library in the world — MULTIPLIED BY 50! https://fcw.com/security/2019/08/how-petabytes-are-crushing-the-security-classification-system/211000/

How many people and how much cost to hide lies and crimes?. Isn’t it easier to tell the truth? And spend that money on health care for example?

How crazy is the classification of that much material? Mueller has to be seen in that lunatic context.

Furthermore, by law, information may not be classified merely because it would be embarrassing or to cover illegal activity; information may be classified only to protect national security objectives. This law must be flouted every day. Has anyone ever been prosecuted for overclassifying? Or for covering illegal activity? Not that I can find.

File under Postgraduate Hypocrisy.

Finally, Mueller who honorably resigned after presenting the Russiagate report, was immediately belittled by those who wanted a free ticket for railroading Trump and excuses to engage in proxy war with the Russians e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/robert-mueller-anatomy-failed-public-performance-rob-morhaim

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anti-republocrat's avatar

I don't want the federal government to spend it on health care, either. That's how we get the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services preventing early treatment and recommending toxic drugs like Remdesevir and executions via ventilator. I prefer distributed control. Nothing in the Constitution gives the federal government power to regulate drugs or medical care. The tenth amendment should apply. https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/

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George Cornell's avatar

Health care does not = crap drugs. The longevity of Americans has just been passed by the Chinese, having been already left in the dust by Cuba and Panama etc.

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