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The author was a senior council in the Clinton investigation which involved issues of SS protective immunity & records release. So yeah he may be someone with p
by awinder 4y ago
The author was a senior council in the Clinton investigation which involved issues of SS protective immunity & records release. So yeah he may be someone with personal expertise.
There’s nothing here related to policing presidential behavior or decisions about who gets to be president. There’s executive & congressional branch oversight over the secret service. They received a lawful order to preserve data and then blasted it away. There’s a ton of moral hazard in that kind of brazen rule-breaking and you’ll likely see it reflected in the coming months/years.
- bell-cot 4y agoMore relevant, from the author's 1-paragraph Atlantic bio: > From 2005 to 2009 he was the deputy assistant secretary for policy of the Department of Homeland Security, overseeing the U.S. Secret Service. Yet he writes the article as if he had zero insight into the Secret Service. Zero knowledge of their org chart, zero knowledge of their data retention policies, zero... The only card he shows is a very idealistic letter-of-the-law notion of how it should operate. I could theorize about why that is... Plausible theories do not seem flattering to Mr. Rosenzweig, nor The Atlantic, nor readers of The Atlantic. > There’s nothing here related to policing presidential behavior or decisions about... No, nothing "policing" at all, about turning over detailed records on the rather clear commission of Sedition by a sitting Republican President, to a Democrat-controlled investigation. No chance that such records might help determine who wins the 2024 Presidential election. And no chance at all that a future Republican President and/or Congress would ever do anything to punish career employees of the Secret Service, if such records were turned over.