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How did a professor of Internet law get a hold of a draft EO? Are these things widely circulated before signing?

splintercell 6y ago
If I know anything about Trump, then his team leaked it on purpose to get an initial feedback. If it turns out to have a bad reaction then they would repudiate this copy and release some other watered down version.
- remarkEon 6y ago
  ... or a more extreme one. My sense is that they use leaks as a way to ferret out who is disloyal, not get feedback from the Press, which they hate.
3001 6y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/klonick/status/1265850206396076033?s=21 https://mobile.twitter.com/klonick/status/126585020639607603...
mentalpiracy 6y ago
There appear to be other recipients of this draft doc besides Klonick. Same document, from all appearances. Probably same source sending it out. https://mobile.twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1265868452834635776 https://mobile.twitter.com/mmasnick/status/12658684528346357...
dragonwriter 6y ago
> How did a professor of Internet law get a hold of a draft EO? A leak. > Are these things widely circulated before signing? Something with this content would probably need to be coordinated between at least White House counsel, DoJ, and counsel for all or most of the agencies being given tasks under it to get the language right and make sure it was as workable as possible given the intent, so it would be in a large number of hands. Even if they were all fairly reliable partisan political appointees (and it’d be unlikely that there wouldn't be a lot of permanent staff involved), those are in some ways the most dangerous since, well, reliable Republican partisan attorneys and people who support a hands-off approach to regulating speech of business entities have a pretty big overlap. Trumpian corporatists who think that all of society (whether government, business, or otherwise) should be united in reflecting the will of the head of state, at least as long as the current incumbent holds that position, or pay the price for disloyalty, aren't the norm even among Republican partisans. As much as Trump would like to fill the whole administration with them, there aren't enough of them remotely qualified to fill the needed roles.

If I know anything about Trump, then his team leaked it on purpose to get an initial feedback. If it turns out to have a bad reaction then they would repudiate this copy and release some other watered down version.

remarkEon 6y ago
... or a more extreme one. My sense is that they use leaks as a way to ferret out who is disloyal, not get feedback from the Press, which they hate.

3001 6y ago

https://mobile.twitter.com/klonick/status/1265850206396076033?s=21 https://mobile.twitter.com/klonick/status/126585020639607603...

mentalpiracy 6y ago

There appear to be other recipients of this draft doc besides Klonick. Same document, from all appearances. Probably same source sending it out. https://mobile.twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1265868452834635776 https://mobile.twitter.com/mmasnick/status/12658684528346357...

dragonwriter 6y ago

> How did a professor of Internet law get a hold of a draft EO? A leak. > Are these things widely circulated before signing? Something with this content would probably need to be coordinated between at least White House counsel, DoJ, and counsel for all or most of the agencies being given tasks under it to get the language right and make sure it was as workable as possible given the intent, so it would be in a large number of hands. Even if they were all fairly reliable partisan political appointees (and it’d be unlikely that there wouldn't be a lot of permanent staff involved), those are in some ways the most dangerous since, well, reliable Republican partisan attorneys and people who support a hands-off approach to regulating speech of business entities have a pretty big overlap. Trumpian corporatists who think that all of society (whether government, business, or otherwise) should be united in reflecting the will of the head of state, at least as long as the current incumbent holds that position, or pay the price for disloyalty, aren't the norm even among Republican partisans. As much as Trump would like to fill the whole administration with them, there aren't enough of them remotely qualified to fill the needed roles.