Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/08/04/sessions-declares-new-trump-wa.html
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I can only assume this will go about as well as his “war on drugs”.
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Not to mention the war on immigration and all the other wars on things that only made the things they were trying to fight worse.
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But if the mainstream media is fake, why does it matter?
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Obviously the wrong type of leakers.
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“staggering number of leaks undermining the ability of our government to protect this country.”
I call bullshit. The leaks embarass Trump, and have no national security value.
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Leaking information that embarrasses the President is a matter of national security. You know what else is a matter of national security? Having an embarrassing President.
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Some of them genuinely are problematic. Remember how Trump farted out codeword-classified intelligence to the Russian foreign minister? The source of that information won’t be as forthcoming in the future.
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Well in the example you cite Trump was the “leaker”. Go ahead Sessions - prosecute away.
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For the love of god if you are in the media or the government or just know something, LEAK IT! Oh and cover your ass!
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Hang on… Attack against the journalists too? How does that work?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-sessions-leaks-idUSKBN1AK1UR?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+(News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News)
“One of the things we are doing is reviewing policies affecting media subpoenas,” Sessions told reporters
Divulge the leak source or face jail time.
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Wildly successful? It did achieve its true purpose.
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Everybody wants to leak on tRump!
Phew! As long as the US legal system is held in check by… uh… the US legal system… everything should be OK?
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One can only hope that the imbesillic incompetence at the top of the justice department inspires strategic incompetence at all of the levels below.
Hey Sessions, here’s an idea: one way Trump could end the leaking is to stop acting like such a goddamned idiot.
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It’s 100% unanimous then.
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President Pence won’t be nearly the idiot that Trump is.
Well, he’s made his first move and the game is afoot. I think he’s just getting started so the worst is possibly yet to come:
It doesn’t have to go well for him, it just has to sow enough FUD to close the shops and put the brakes on the legalization movement.
