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Maybe we allow the legislative branch to strap the taxpayers with a mega expensive bill. Strange? That's the way its supposed to work, but I doubt Biden understands any of this normal governmental procedure.

It's been that way for years. The entirety of Russia is a corrupt scam. Still, they have a lot of nuclear weapons with significant range. Other than that, they have nothing.

Maybe you are simply not capable of interpreting what is said. Actually, I am quite certain you are not, but no surprise there. What I am sayin is that there is no reasonable economic metric that justifies the escalating cost of college cost. Not CPI, inflation rate,GDP. Nothing. It is simply because people are willing to pay ridiculous costs for it. That burden is a decision, and should not be the US taxpayer's debt. Placing it on the taxpayer is nothing more than bribing a demographic, and again, for the third time, should have been a decision made by our legislative branch. This man is doing nothing more than trying to buy an election.

Not sure what this really means. No surprise there. Sticking debt to the American taxpayer is common. Doing it in an industry that has absolutely no justification for it's out of economic reality inflation based on any measurable quant is nothing more than vote buying outside of the legislative process. It's a disgraceful bribe that we are paying for, and nothing more.

I "worked pretty hard." So did my wife. We worked "pretty hard" as officers in the US military. We paid back our student loans and never once thought of some way to avoid those promised responsibilities. But, this is the Biden Administration. so I agree. Let's subsidize an industry that has inflated costs far beyond any economic measure for well over a decade, without any justification or reasonable comparison. Let's remove any promissory note given to the American taxpayer, and say it isn't valid. Let's allow the American taxpayer to bear the burden of failure to comply with legal promises. Let's do it all to get votes, and far, far away from the Legislative process, which allows our representatives to decide. What a great day for America!

"71. That's the year I started this job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for our country.... I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the music he listens to. Rock was never my bag, but you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library fella."

I am getting suspicious that you don't know what "compartmentalized" means, as you mention it in a "storage" context again. It is a further classification of data. In other words, if one has a Top Secret clearance he/she would have access to TS material that was in their area of need to know, but not all TS material in that area. Under that general level, there are other things that contain the same classification, but are not accessible to those who do not have a need to know. I have no idea what Trump is suspected of having or not returning, so I'm not sure what you mean by "if I am right." What i do know is that his status as an ex president grants him no special status or access to anything other than what he is told, and if he claims that any such items were declassified by him during his term, that would be especially strange if normal protocols weren't followed. Technically legal, but really strange and likely irresponsible if that is the claim. Again, I have no view on whether that will be the claim.

The acting president has access to compartmentalized data. Anybody who has the relevant security clearance and a need to know has such access. He is given any data he requests, but it would be senseless for anyone to request data that does not inform a decision, and they don't. Trump, as an ex president has no access beyond what they need to tell him, and I doubt that is anything. I'm sure Bush senior was informed of the Iraqi plan to kill him, because they probably increased security measure in response, but Trump has no role in anything anymore, and has no right to intel data, and certainly no right to hold currently classified info.

I have no idea what this means and I certainly have not dropped any argument. He was "compartmentalized?"

Biden is the acting president. Trump's status conveys no right to posses classified information at a private residence. An ex president is a private citizen with secret service protection. Anything he is provided is as a courtesy. It is not his "right."

I have no opinion on why they acted when they did, what they found, or why he seemingly resisted requests to turn stuff over. I do have an opinion on whether an ex president has the "right" to have currently classified information at a private unsecured location, no matter when he got it. He doesn't.

I'm not sure what your question about "quoting" relates to. I am quite aware how our Republic works, and have a good deal of experience in dealing with US intel data, how it is handled and the protocols involved in accessing it, studying it and eventually teaching it up to the Top Secret Noforn level in areas I was involved in. Higher levels of data, so called "compartmentalized" information, was not accessible unless there was a need to know. When the need was perceived, the info was available, but only to the level necessary. Of course the President has access to whatever he wants. However, he has no need to know the very detailed information that would include names, specifics on technical capability and a host of other information. He is not an analyst and has no technical capability. He is briefed on a daily basis, and those briefs are tailored to his wants. The President trusts capable analysts to present the data that is important, and requests what he wants if he wants more info. These daily briefs have bee n very different for each Pres. Again, I have no information on what was at his Florida place, but there is no justifiable reason to have items there that contain sensitive information on ongoing programs, sources, methods, or technology after his term, and certainly not in an unsecure setting. If that occurred, it is gross negligence and the gov agencies have a responsibility to fix the issue as soon as they are aware of it. Ex presidents get basic intel info as a courtesy and are often consulted to offer views because of their experience in certain situations and knowledge of personalities, but are, essentially, regular citizens with secrets service protection.

I strongly disagree with the focus of this post. The President has access to what he needs to do his job. There is absolutely no reason to have anything beyond that information, and I'm not sure why anyone would want to. He is not an analyst. He has absolutely no background in these things. Methods, sources and tech data/capability are not part of that reasonable request for data, and Trump wasn't that much interested in that stuff anyway. I have absolutely no idea what they found, so for now, I'll not condemn him. But if they found unprotected, important information at his home that has any significance to capability, sources or other compartmentalized intel that does not involve the president, we should be appalled. I'll wait for more info, but if any of this is true, it is a stunning development, and we have to clean this up. If this happened in the services, the firings/court martials would be instantaneous.

Ignorant. I never said anything of the sort. What I did do was post relevant, factual information of what is involved re establishing and maintaining a no fly zone, providing aviation assets that they have no way to use, maintain, or arm, and as background, not want to get into WWIII over this. It is not about angering Putin. It about having a clue about the reality of the situation, which is extremely complicated and fraught with peril, unlike your high school cheerleader level offerings.

Get yourself a Biden T shirt from custom ink. Good company. I'm not insulting you or anyone, I simply don't think you have any idea about any of this, and are certainly incapable, as we all are, of guessing what would have happened under vastly different leadership.

Sure. You're not only a brilliant military tactician, a weapons expert, a knowledgeable strategist, but also able to predict what might have happened if others were in charge. You are a genius, or a political hack who knows nothing other than ill informed opinion.. I know where my bet would be.

Of course what Trump said in that link made perfect sense. The Ukraine is not a NATO ally. The US had no dependence on Russian crap. It is incredibly obvious that this was a European problem, yet their failure to stand up to it, borne of years of political flaccidity leads, once again, to the US taxpayer and debt writer handling it. Stating what is incredibly obvious to any objective observer is not an "excuse ready made," and being reluctant to commit US taxpayers to this European crap is not a bad thing for our leadership to consider. On a more serious note, recent analysis suggests that Putin has about eighteen months of financial reserves, and that the economy is on the verge of implosion. That is a far more illustrative indicator of what might happen. Frankly, the rat is cornered, and look out for the escape strategy.

Sometimes, letting the free market system lever these issues is much better than a gov or party interfering. Actually, I would state "always." What the Republicans have not done is propose eliminating debt for people who have agreed to it and signed promissory notes to pay it back. The net of this taxpayer funded forgiveness is to, once again, fail to let the free market impact idiotic college costs, and remove the US University system from having to be accountable for unjustified, and way beyond cpi, wage growth, or any other economic measure, increases.

This is what happens constantly with you. You imply false premises, you falsely suggest others support an enemy, and you repeatedly imply things that simply aren't there. It isn't "focus just on nuclear codes," and I have never suggested a "nothingburger." It is a question towards those who repeatedly bring it up, implying immense significance, challenging if they actually know what it means. This site's posters can draw swords against eachother forever, but as of now, nothing has been provided in any factual sense that treason has been committed. When that happens, see where the chips fall.

For all the back and forth vitriol directed by posts at each other, I would be pleased to see if anyone launching these allegations demonstrated any knowledge of what "nuclear launch codes" means, or if it was any threat. Further, I really doubt that any foreign gov ex the least threatening, would ever do business with "Trump" regarding serious US security issues. I don't believe they would view him as reliable, and the fastest way to get your regime on the US s..t list is to get caught stealing US secrets through paying a provider.

A little perspective and background here. The US Navy has line officers and non line officers. The folks with stars on their shoulder boards or stars on their sleeves above the rank, are line officers. Those are the ones that are permitted to command operational units in combat. A "staff" officer is one whose primary duties are non combat, and who perform special jobs not combat related. Staff officers include dentists, clergy, doctors and others, including lawyers or jag officers.

I come from a different place than you on this issue. My first response, and I think I can say this with extreme confidence, is that Trump never knew what some here call our most sensitive information. "Most sensitive information," is a judgement. The locations of ballistic missile subs, deep human intel in foreign countries. and up to date tech info is not something the president gets briefed on. Those issues are "the most sensitive." Trump wasn't interested in this stuff at all. His daily intel briefs were largely picture shows, and he wasn't that interested. They don't make copies for later study, and he didn't have any apatite for that. Obama was an IPAD guy, and didn't get into much detail either. Bush was more of a see it coming guy and would ask. Anyway, I think there is a great misunderstanding of this issue. "Secret," "Top Secret," it all sounds cool, but there are far deeper levels that reveal methods, sources and technology that are not part of the president's daily diet. We handled this stuff during training and operational carrier stuff, but "Secret" wasn't interesting, "Top Secret" was data we had that we didn't want people to know we had, and there were many deeper levels than that. Again, Trump wasn't that interested anyway, and had no great relationship with the CIA. The pres is not briefed on stuff he doesn't care about, and I don't think Trump was that interested. As far as the other guys, one was providing daily encryption data to the status and location of US Navy task forces, and one exposed the network we had established to determine Soviet sub locations. Really, really valuable stuff. The codes were useless upon Biden's inauguration.

Just for the sake of acknowledging reality, whatever "codes" or the validity of the biscuit that Trump had were worthless the afternoon of the inaugeration. How the US nuclear reaction works is well known and open source. Clinton lost them and I believe left them is delivered dry cleaning. Carter refused to allow the football to be carried into Plains Ga., when he was there, which would have resulted in a significant response delay. I hope that rational people will let these, as yet, unproven accusations cease until some kind of proof is found. If treason is found, prosecute to the fullest. Until then, I'd bet that Robert Henson and John Walker have done infinitely more damage.

Josh Allen must have read my post.

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