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I'd much rather Krebs actually looked into the theft of taxpayer funds by USAID, with all its "shrimp treadmills", "Iraqi Sesame Street", "transgender mice" and
by ein0p 2y ago
I'd much rather Krebs actually looked into the theft of taxpayer funds by USAID, with all its "shrimp treadmills", "Iraqi Sesame Street", "transgender mice" and regime changes. I want to get to the leaves of that tree and see who really got my money. Everything else is immaterial and should be ignored as targeted attacks on their mission.
- wrs 2y agoReplacing the entire security clearance and access control system of the government with the say-so of one guy is immaterial?
- ein0p 2y agoYou don't have evidence for what you just alleged, aside from vague, unsubstantiated allegations by Krebs.
- wrs 2y agoI know how long it takes to get a security clearance.
- ta8645 2y agoElon Musk already held "top secret" security clearance. Because of Space X.
- wrs 2y agoGreat, and how is that relevant to all the people on this team who aren't Elon Musk?
- ein0p 2y agoThe president of the United States can grant, deny or withdraw clearance to anyone he wishes. He can also classify and declassify anything he wishes.
- wrs 2y agoYou are restating my original comment. Unless you think the normal security clearance system is “just ask the President what he thinks”. Actually, speaking of that one guy, there are very, very few convicted felons with documented mishandling of classified information who get a security clearance under normal circumstances.
- ein0p 2y agoYou're confused. The president of the United States is not just "some guy". He is elected by the citizens of the United States to head the executive branch. Besides, you're assuming two more things: 1. That there has been no vetting (100% false - FBI vetting began in early December) 2. That they have or need access to any information requiring clearance
- ks2048 2y agoI'd rather my tax dollars go to Iraqi Seasame Streeet than to Musk's private companies.
- stevenbedrick 2y agoFor what it's worth, and in case anybody's interested, the "shrimp treadmill" was funded by NSF, not USAID, and was exactly the kind of basic science research that the NSF is supposed to fund. Here's an article from 2011 that gives a lot of useful backstory about that story: https://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139852035/shrimp-on-a-treadmill-the-politics-of-silly-studies https://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139852035/shrimp-on-a-treadmi...