That's interesting, given that as an official government department they're subject to FOIA requests and as such have an obligation to persist their documentation.
Presidential Records Act is quite strong about capturing all records & releasing them. But after a 5 year delay.
During Trump 1 there was quite a habit of ripping up papers by the president. So there were some dudes hired to go take the ripped up papers and tape them back together. Really looking forwards to seeing some of those next year! https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filin...
I suspect that what's happening is flagrantly incredibly evil & immoral, is a heinous crime against democracy. The people need to be ae to see what governments do and are, need to have some chance to learn and see what their governments really do. My dear is that the Presidential Records Act is being thrown out the window by these folks, that we will have nearly no record of so much of what this administration & it's "advisors" (Musk) do.
That's interesting, given that as an official government department they're subject to FOIA requests and as such have an obligation to persist their documentation.
They declared that the DOGE stuff is official presidential records and thus not subject to FOIA.
https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-doge-records-public-inf...
Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the right one: they're fascists and the rules are not applicable to them.
> They declared that the DOGE stuff is official presidential records and thus not subject to FOIA.
which is pretty absurd and you would need to have a really corrupt court IMHO for this to hold up
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Presidential Records Act is quite strong about capturing all records & releasing them. But after a 5 year delay.
During Trump 1 there was quite a habit of ripping up papers by the president. So there were some dudes hired to go take the ripped up papers and tape them back together. Really looking forwards to seeing some of those next year! https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filin...
I suspect that what's happening is flagrantly incredibly evil & immoral, is a heinous crime against democracy. The people need to be ae to see what governments do and are, need to have some chance to learn and see what their governments really do. My dear is that the Presidential Records Act is being thrown out the window by these folks, that we will have nearly no record of so much of what this administration & it's "advisors" (Musk) do.
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If you think they're going to follow FOIA law I have a bridge to sell you.
* Unless you're secretary of state.
What happened in that case, and do you believe the same standard should be applied currently?
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Elon personally uses Signal, I would assume this is a legitimate mistake which will be fixed soon if it hasn't already
I can’t edit the original comment but it looks like sharing signal links is back, but some now have a spam warning. https://x.com/jeremiahdjohns/status/1891554583756845526?s=46