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Even by the standards of this administration...... yikes: Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically t
by AIPedant 1y ago
Even by the standards of this administration...... yikes:
Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.
- 9283409232 1y agoThis is exactly what I expect from this administration. Mob tactics. Take the silver or get the lead.
- potato3732842 1y ago[flagged]
- 9283409232 1y agoDOGE aren't federal agents. They are cyber criminals doing Elon's bidding.
- AIPedant 1y agoThe reason you are being downvoted to smithereens is that Bryan Malinowski was credibly accused of serious crimes (arms trafficking) wheres Daniel Berulis is accused of reporting serious crimes. You're making a preposterous and immoral false equivalence.
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- pc86 1y agoYou can't seriously be defending the treatment of Malinowski. The agents did not wear body cameras in direct violation of ATF policy. They conducted an early-morning no-knock raid for a search warrant when they knew Malinowski would be there (having cancelled an earlier one because he wasn't home). This wasn't an arrest warrant, it was a search warrant. They covered up the doorbell camera so if he had checked it he wouldn't see the half-dozen police vehicles outside. They could have done the exact same thing in the middle of the day when nobody was home and everybody would be alive today. They could have waited until daylight and knocked on the door with their warrant and walked right in. They could have worn body cameras as ATF policy and common sense demands. "Arms trafficking" is a funny way to say "buying guns legally and reselling them at gun shows" but let's say every single thing said about him is 100% true. If you think someone is a gun runner why wouldn't you take their house when they're not home to get all the evidence without having to worry about what they're doing? Why wouldn't you arrest him at the airport, where he almost certainly isn't armed, and police presence won't raise any alarms?
- mikeyouse 1y ago> They conducted an early-morning no-knock raid for a search warrant when they knew Malinowski would be there (having cancelled an earlier one because he wasn't home) Among many other points that are wrong - everyone involved agrees there was plenty of knocking. > They could have waited until daylight and knocked on the door with their warrant and walked right in. Search warrants almost always begin at 6am - and when weapons are involved, they almost always execute them soon after.
- pc86 1y agoYou are correct - and I was wrong - that it wasn't a no-knock raid. Malinowski's widow said they heard the knocking but no announcements that they were law enforcement. 28 seconds later their door was knocked in with a battering ram. That anyone announced they were law enforcement is disputed; we'd know what really happened but for want of a single body cam (which IMO makes it much more likely there was no announcement whatsoever). > Search warrants almost always begin at 6am - and when weapons are involved, they almost always execute them soon after. I'm not making any comment on whether or not this itself is standard practice, but it seems pretty obvious to me that if this raid was conducted 4 hours later Malinowski would be alive today.
- mikeyouse 1y agoYeah the ATF is a shit show of an agency with a strong history of fucking up in violent and unconstitutional ways - but unfortunately, their search warrant execution and 'raids' are completely standard operating procedure for US police. It likely could've been resolved if they'd just sent him a letter asking to meet him at the Federal Building but who wants to be a desk jockey when you can play dress up like GI Joe?
- pc86 1y agoNobody gets promoted by making a phone call and telling their boss that nothing is actually in violation of law. But kick a door down in your sparkling clean body armor and perp walk some guy who makes a quarter million dollars a year out of his mansion and you're well on your way.
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- Zamaamiro 1y agoWhat kind of response is this?
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- Zamaamiro 1y agoCyber criminals is factual. This is who Elon staffed DOGE with. https://fortune.com/2025/03/27/a-doge-staffer-working-as-a-senior-advisor-in-the-governments-cybersecurity-agency-once-provided-tech-support-to-a-cybercrime-ring/ https://fortune.com/2025/03/27/a-doge-staffer-working-as-a-s...
- pc86 1y ago[flagged]
- etchalon 1y ago"Nobel invented dynamite. I don't see any difference between him and the guy using it to blow up children."
- zzrrt 1y ago"Nobel already created dynamite to make civilization more efficient. Then as soon as the new guy comes along with dogemite and actually wants to have fewer mouths to feed, people start complaining about the children, conveniently ignoring that Nobel started it!"
- 404mm 1y agoI’d not want to be a whistleblower during this presidency. Whistleblowers tend to have really bad luck crossing the street on a good day.
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- 404mm 1y agoThat’s just uncalled for. Hope your day gets better.
- 9283409232 1y agoThat's what they want. Now is when we need whistleblowers the most so they want to put the fear into them.
- fooList 1y ago[flagged]
- gooseus 1y agoReally? Seems way more obvious to me that Thiel/Vance/Musk would have Trump whacked... probably in the 2nd or 3rd year so that Vance can take power during a Reichstag fire with enough time left till elections in order for them to consolidate power. Trump is primarily an actor pretending to be a gangster/president on TV to serve as a front for the real gangsters pilfering our government, at some point he will better serve those people by becoming a martyr in a way which transfers his power to someone else they control.
- Applejinx 1y agoThe trouble with that is that they're all fronting Russia's efforts to control the US government. This is why prosperity isn't exactly in the cards: that's the promise, but all the actions lead directly the other direction in conclusive ways. Because that's the background, it explains Trump's prominence. He is trusted by Russia in ways a Musk or Thiel can never be, so if we're talking mysterious falls from balconies, it would be Musk, Thiel et al who are more in danger. They have to work with Trump, because Trump is the one Russia trusts, and that's because Russia made him. His wealth has never been real: he's an op from way back. The Kremlin absolutely will not trust Elon Musk, nor should they. He's more capable, but he is most certainly scheming against them or even looking to supplant/eject Putin and replace him. Thiel is on less drugs and has the sense to stay out of the spotlight, so he will be trying to offer eternal life to Putin or something like that. Whether there's any truth to that is moot: it's whether Putin believes there is. None of them are safe replacements for Trump, because they all hold power of their own. Trump stays so long as he lives, because he doesn't hold power of his own, and is therefore safe to use as the puppet.
- brendoelfrendo 1y agoI'm surprised to see this kind of blue-anon discourse here. Why are we discussing the players of this administration "whacking" each other? There's plenty of horrible things happening in broad daylight, harms that the administration is inflicting on the American people. Why add a layer of speculation about a power struggle where they may or may not be trying to harm each other, when there's no reason to believe such a thing exists? What matters is that they're getting along well enough in the moment to push through their agenda. Hell, Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of running for a third term, which would in and of itself be an illegal power grab; no need to speculate some scenario where Trump gets martyred and Vance takes over when the much simpler and more likely scenario is that Trump just ignores the law and does it himself.
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- daedrdev 1y ago?????
- guntars 1y agoIt’s a bot. They’re everywhere these days.
- techright75 1y ago[flagged]
- guntars 1y agoI meant it in a more general sense. Any person that feels the need to create a burner account to argue with people online with a comment history like yours is a bot to me, meat based or otherwise. Follow your instructions!
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- cosmicgadget 1y agoLol in consecutive comments you claim the whistleblower made it up and NPR made it up. Take a break.
- techright75 1y agoWhy didn't he take a picture of the note and show it? If that happened at any company I worked for I'd absolutely take the picture and show it to folks. Just nonsense, but you can believe it if you want lol
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