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Actually I'm honestly curious, so let me rephrase. You appear to think that the US has the right to conceal its crimes. Is that right? Do you extend that same courtesy to Israel? Russia? Myanmar? If not, why?

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And yet in spite of years of requests for proof no one has ever shown that anyone ever exposed was killed or even injured.

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So exposing crimes by the powerful and the wealthy deserves punishment. Got it.

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Out myself as a security engineer with 16 years of experience? Must be entertaining.

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And Donald Trump is a stable genius. LMAO 🤣

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I'm late to this thread, but if anyone wants to know how Politico's owners really feel politically, and whether they're willing to interfere in their publications to spread their right-wing ideas:

The German CEO of Europe’s largest media publisher tried to use his flagship tabloid, Bild, to influence the outcome of Germany’s last election and fed the newspaper his personal views attacking climate change activism, Covid measures and the former chancellor Angela Merkel, leaked messages suggest.The internal chats, emails and text messages published by the German weekly Die Zeit on Wednesday clash with the public presentation of Axel Springer SE’s chief executive, Mathias Döpfner, who recently said he wanted to bring “non-partisan” journalism to a too-polarised US media landscape through his acquisition of the English-language title Politico.In one of the messages quoted verbatim in Die Zeit, from 2017, Döpfner says: “I am all for climate change,” seemingly arguing that human civilisation in periods of warm climate was always “more successful” than during cold-climate periods. “We shouldn’t fight climate change but adjust to it.”The comments are part of a longer message in which Döpfner sums up his foreign policy views as “Free west, fuck the intolerant Muslims and all the other riff-raff.”https://www.theguardian.com..."Bringing non-partisan journalism to a too-polarised US media landscape" is the new "Fair and Balanced", it seems.

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Go on. (I am not a Chinese spy). Fuck Ted Cruz.

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Is that asshole Greenwald still hiding out in Brazil?

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My clearance expired in 2011 so anything I know will be useless by now.

But basically:The Patriot missile launcher needs to be able to talk to the radar, command center, and other missile battery components. The system itself has multiple, redundant methods to do this, but one way these things transfer data back and forth is via radio. Now, the US Army doesn't just broadcast missile launcher data on FM 97.7, like your car radio would pick up. No, it broadcasts on multiple frequencies at once, and the signal is encrypted. The radios need to be programmed specifically to pick up the signal, and we had this small computer that would program the radios.

That's what I needed the secret clearance for -- to operate that small computer. At no point did I actually know what the encryption scheme on it was, but I still needed the clearance just to use the computer.

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I'm pretty sure we do know who leaked the Dobb's decision. It was clearly Sam Alito.

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I believe he splits his time between here and there. But his husband is a Brazilian citizen, as are the 2 kids they're raising (I forget if it was a formal adoption or some other arrangement), so he clearly has no skin in the game when it comes to the US being a functional democracy. One gay men like Greenwald could live in without fear.

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So can guillotines...

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She is apparently a Mass native...

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That's purely in your imagination. I don't think the US has the right to conceal its crimes. The problem is the way Snowden did it by selling out to Russia instead of going through channels here in the US.

Now that I've answered your question, are you going to answer mine?

Do you think Seth Rich hacked the DNC email server and was then murdered by Hillary?

This is the third time I've asked this question. If you don't response to it this time, I'm just going to assume the answer is yes and then move because I hate dealing with people debate dishonestly by ignoring questions and putting words into people's mouths.

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He only comes to America to appear on Tucher Carlson's white power hour.

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I'm not ruling out Thomas at this point.

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