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Air Force Releases Private Documents on GOP Candidate
It now appears that the United States Air Force can confirm it sent supposedly private personnel information to the Democratic research firm Due Diligence Group. This is fantastic news! We can finally be assured that anything untoward that happened to a current Republican candidate back in the military can be brought out in the open. It is vitally important that any candidate who suffered a sexual assault in the military be forced to discuss that, at least if she is a Republican.
And we know that nothing will be prosecuted by the DOJ. That is because this is not as important as going after a person who might have been at a Trump Rally on January 6th, even if he or she was never anywhere near the Capitol. Those people are insurrectionists who need to be imprisoned. Leaking files is no big deal, and look what it tells us about candidates.
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Well, at least they didn’t cover up sexual assaults or neglect to send domestic violence convictions to the NICS allowing a person to purchase a firearm and kill a bunch of people.
Crap, they did that as well. I am rapidly concluding that we need to burn all these orgs to the ground and start over from scratch.
The article left out something vital, namely who is responsible for the leak. If the leaker was a civilian then, yes, it’s up to the DOJ. If the leaker was a member of the military the prosecuting authority is Lieutenant General Charles L. Plummer, Commanding Officer of Air Force JAG. If the leaker is ex-military, they are subject to recall to the service for courts martial.
So what happens if I edit my title back?
None of which will happen.
This is not true, in regards to the process. The commander of the individual (the first person in their chain of command on G-series orders), if the individual is currently serving, is the one to refer the matter to his servicing JAG for review and possible prosecution. The article 32 hearing members are who determines the charges.
The fact that the title has been edited indicates it’s about to be promoted. If you edit it back promotion may be cancelled.
Well, the DoD has my records, including health records.
Do you honestly think that normal channels will be followed in such a politically charged case?
Alex asks an interesting question.
At least the URL isn’t changed.
Gettin awful sick of government agencies making mistakes with other people’s information.
They have procedures, and personnel to burn. Leaked information, lying information requesters, exposed SSNs, this is simply not acceptable to me.
If they can’t take care of a citizen’s private information, they should not be allowed to have it.
How does one falsely claim “express consent” to release information other than by fraud?
Well, if my the person is conservative, they get to do it.
Congressman Bacon, who was targeted, was on Tucker tonight. It was informative.
He mentioned that candidate Ruth Jennifer Green was hurt by the release of this material, and lost a close race.
But the 2020 election was fine.
This is totally different.
I’m even more disappointed in the lack of followup by Congress. Congress funds the agencies that make these “mistakes.”
Late in the Clinton administrations, I got a polling call from someone representing Nick Smith, our congressional representative, who had always seemed to be a conservative. I may have contributed a minor amount to one or two of his campaigns. She wanted to know which issues I thought were most important for Congress to deal with, and listed ten of them for me to pick from. I picked one not on the list: corruption.
“Oh, my,” was her response. I don’t remember if anything else was said, but that was the end of the conversation and the end of any support Nick Smith was getting from me.
(You may remember that the Clinton administration was one scandal after another, though the scandal news had eventually died down. Clinton had made it through the impeachment process by this time.)
Here is a follow on this story
GOP lawmakers seek investigation of ‘unauthorized’ disclosure of their Air Force records – POLITICO
Nothing will happen. The DOJ will absolutely not go after anyone.
I thought our last President was a threat to democracy. Isn’t this a threat?
Corporate media and many in GOPe is more aligned with the permanent bureaucracy to care about these stories.
How many of those covering DC has relationships/friends who are part of the bureaucracy?
This has a feel of only 2 years left to arrest tyranny. Not that tyranny is ever defeated. Only that if we don’t do something over the next 2 years to arrest it, then revolution –whenever that can be in the far future –will be the only remedy.
The prosecuting authority is the miscreant’s commanding general. JAG has administrative control over his subordinates but, in these circumstances, not operational control.
This is correct, and more precise than my observation.
After watching tyranny “arrest” Trump, I suspect you are a little optimistic.