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A general review of what the newly declassified DOJ IG footnotes show.

Thanks to thoughtless morons demanding their freedom to buy lawn fertilizer and visit their hair colorist right the fuck now, freedom for the rest of us is sadly dependent on waiting out the illness and death of the persuadable and stupid.

Trump's decision to hire Michael Caputo as spokesperson at HHS raises questions about what happened to the investigation into Caputo's Project Rasputin that was ongoing as recently as February 3.

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $415 million contract to Battelle to sterilize N95 masks for re-use. It is hard to understand why this contract is so expensive, given the stated deliverables.

WaPo seems either thinks it's really important to tell their readers how the country will reopen or they've been snookered by the White House in perpetuating a myth that that process will be led by the White House. If it's the latter, that strand of reporting (which is separate from a great deal of good WaPo journalism on how Trump fucked up) is just as negligent as Trump's own actions are, because such stories misinform about how this will work. If it's the former, then WaPo would do well to send some journalists to work in Columbus, Annapolis, and Boston full time, or better yet, bring on some laid off reporters who know how those state houses really work.

InfoSec experts have long suggested that the best way to get around the border exception--which permits the US government to search your devices as you enter the country--is to send your devices to a lawyer. One of Lev Parnas' co-defendants, David Correia, is trying just that.

Trump wants to reopen the economy. But it's clear from the limited data and anecdotal reporting from essential workplaces that basic things -- starting with masks -- still aren't in place to limit workplace exposure. And because these men and women haven't had the protective equipment or other workplace protections they need, many have needlessly died. 

In the US, "job creators" just can't grasp the idea that workers are humans who need food and shelter during the time that, through no fault of their own, they can't work. The idea of paying workers to do nothing simply never can be entertained, even if it literally means life or death.

For some reason the WaPo spends 2,400 words fluffing Trump's belief that he's in charge of reopening the economy, rather than emphasizing that that won't happen until someone fixes Trump's testing failures.

As Trump tries to shut down the legal paths for whistleblowers, it increases the chances we'll see very detailed accounts of precisely what warnings the Intelligence Community -- and others in government -- gave Trump about COVID-19.