Secrets and Laws

Secrets and Laws

@secretsandlaws.bsky.social

Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.

84,065 Followers 241 Following 1,265 Posts Joined Jul 2023
1 day ago

I think it’s more likely that Hegseth thinks “no quarter” sounds cool since he sees it in his Christian Nationalist 4Chan groups all the time, and doesn’t know what it actually means.

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1 day ago

Huge, huge bummer. This is one of the most promising technologies I've ever covered.

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1 day ago

There's good reason oligarchies have never really worked out in modern civilization, and we're about to find out why. It's just unfortunate that so many innocent lives will be ruined in the process.

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Shot // Chaser

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6 days ago

Adding: if your argument in favor of it rests of people being competent and conscientious drivers, I have some bad news for you...

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1 week ago

To be clear, I'm firmly anti unless it's a sporting event or concert.

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1 week ago

I know there's a lot going on in the world right now, but we need to talk about back-in parking. It's become a national crisis.

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2 weeks ago

Rallying around the flag means rallying around the Constitution, not the unscrupulous leaders who trample upon it.

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2 weeks ago

It's very unfortunate that this moment may be upon us.

Hopefully we avoid Iranian attacks on US civilians, but if that happens, it's absolutely critical that Democrats remind the public of how we got here.

That story must feature the GOP Congress that enabled this debacle.

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1 year ago
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White House sidelines 160 National Security Council staffers, aligning the team with Trump's agenda President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has sidelined about 160 National Security Council staffers, telling them to work from home while the administration reviews staffing and tries to ali...

They are very deliberately and maliciously destroying the country's national security apparatus.

When inevitably there's an attack and US citizens die, the blood will be on this Administration's hands.

Democrats need to build that narrative now.

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1 month ago

It's just amazing, and horrifying, that so many people have zero dignity whatsoever. All because of one man.

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1 month ago
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Perhaps there were some early signs that Will Lewis was a moron.

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1 month ago

Aged well, sadly

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1 year ago

You might be able to find an endless supply of MAGA warriors to be ICE agents, but that's not true for DOJ. At this pace, DOJ will soon have a significant shortfall of criminal & civil attorneys, with no backfill. Charges won't be filed. Civil cases will receive half-hearted defenses, if any at all.

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3 months ago
Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City | DocumentCloud

Donald Trump’s first appearance in the NYT—

“Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973

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1 month ago

If they're willing to do this shit in public, imagine what they're doing behind closed doors.

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A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.

Fixing our farms and food systems, and improving what we eat,
is a recipe for better human and planetary health.

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1 month ago

Some degenerate gamblers I know loved your day-by-day TV viewing guide from the last Olympics and are wondering if we can get an early release this year...you know, for research purposes.

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1 month ago

I get that having a robust media is more important but at some point can we talk about how Jeff Bezos ruined Whole Foods too???

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1 month ago
KARE 11: Minnesota DOC launches new website to 'address ongoing misinformation by DHS'
The DOC names Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino directly in a statement. Minnesota Department of Corrections Statement on Minneapolis Shooting and Federal Claims
January 24, 2026
The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) extends its condolences to the family and loved ones of Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by federal agents this morning in Minneapolis. The loss of life is tragic, and Minnesotans deserve transparency, accountability, and facts.

In the hours following the shooting, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino held a press conference asserting that the operation was targeting an individual named Jose Huerta-Chuma and characterized him as having a significant criminal history. Because federal statements have repeatedly included inaccurate information about Minnesota custody and criminal records, the DOC reviewed available records to determine whether the individual referenced had any connection to Minnesota state prison custody. ased on DOC records and publicly available Minnesota court data:

The individual identified by federal officials has never been in Minnesota DOC custody.
DOC and court records show no felony commitments associated with this
Public Minnesota court records reflect only misdemeanor-level traffic offenses from more than a decade ago.
The individual is not currently under DOC supervision.
DOC records further indicate that an individual by this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018, during President Trump’s first administration. Any decisions regarding release from federal custody at that time would have been made by federal authorities. DOC has no information explaining why this individual was released.

Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.

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5 months ago

Who's gonna be the first person to present a fake Nobel Prize to Trump in the Oval Office?

The competition is going to be intense!

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1 month ago

End of thread.

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2 months ago
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Life comes at you fast.

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2 months ago

The President is relying on the same legal theory for attacking Venezuela as he is for deploying US troops in American cities.

Let that sink in.

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2 months ago
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I still contend that this is the greatest DOJ redaction of all time.

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2 months ago
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Huh, what happened?

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2 months ago

This is stunning. Blanche is claiming, with a straight face, that the only federal prison where a convicted sex offender can adequately be protected from other inmates just so happens to be a minimum security prison that gives her puppy playdates.

Truly preposterous.

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2 months ago
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The BOP even maintains special prison facilities with high percentages of sex offenders in part to help protect them from threats from other inmates. This is not a new problem for BOP. Why wasn't she sent to one of these facilities instead???

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2 months ago

This is stunning. Blanche is claiming, with a straight face, that the only federal prison where a convicted sex offender can adequately be protected from other inmates just so happens to be a minimum security prison that gives her puppy playdates.

Truly preposterous.

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