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Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, commu
by everdrive 7mo ago
Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out.
If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celebrate it publicly, which is why I assume they want to release information. But, there shouldn't be anything damning to release. ie, there ought not to be if the director is acting professionally. We'll see how the facts bear out. I also suppose it's possible they're just going for any win they can and there's nothing interesting here whatsoever, or it's a really boring secondary address or something.
- tencentshill 7mo agoSurely we are currently clean on OPSEC. There couldn't be any precedent for government officials using private email servers for confidential information!
- vessenes 7mo agoobligatory - that first famous private server was done because someone wanted a blackberry like Obama had, and was told no by NSA. Man that BB keyboard was good.
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- connorgurney 7mo agoI’ve been using a Clicks case since the early days and have personally loved every second of it but it’s definitely an acquired taste. Let us know how you find it.
- bookofjoe 7mo agoWill do!
- the_why_of_y 7mo agoThat can't be the first one. Colin Powell used a personal email account during the GWB administration. https://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/493133413/colin-powells-ways-around-disclosure-detailed-in-new-email https://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/493133413/colin-powells-ways-... Of course that pales in comparison with the practices of the GWB White House: https://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-house-lost-22-million-emails-497373.html https://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-hous...
- embedding-shape 7mo ago> his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out. Aren't these the same people who apparently used Signal with a journalist in the chat, and had military conversations in that very chat? Color me surprised if these people haven't heard of opsec before, and mix their work/personal life all over the place.
- everdrive 7mo agoYes, and I wouldn't be shocked if there was classified information in there. I struggled with wording, but what I meant was "you're not supposed to be able to find classified or sensitive information in personal email, but I who knows what will be the case here."
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- embedding-shape 7mo ago> The investigation has led to turmoil within the Defense Department, raising tensions and the firings and resignations of several top DoD officials, including former Chief of Staff Joe Kasper. [...] On May 1, 2025, it was revealed that both national security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy Alex Wong would be leaving their posts in the National Security Council Let me guess, the "leak" was intentional just to break a bunch of laws and to cause a bunch of people to get fired and leave their posts?
- apercu 7mo agoThey do a lot of mental heavy lifting to support a corrupt and incompetent administration- sunk cost fallacy I imagine.
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- throwaway27448 7mo agoI think this is actually the opposite of the correct conclusion—just look how influential Patreus cheating on his wife was (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal). I seriously doubt that Kash Patel doesn't have a bunch of skeletons to dust off and show the world; the man is a weirdo (much like the rest of the administration). EDIT: I actually misread the comment; I think we're likely in agreement. My bad.
- hypeatei 7mo agoThere is so much corruption and impropriety in this administration that skeletons don't matter anymore. Looking at what sunk officials in previous administrations provides a sense for just how far gone we are, but it's not an indicator of what future consequences will be.
- Loughla 7mo agoDan Quayle lost a serious bid because he couldn't spell potato. Now look at where we're at. It really is wild. Right, wrong, or indifferent. How far we've shifted is absolutely wild.
- throwaway27448 7mo agoDan Quayle also had the charisma of a potato. Let's not overfit this curve.
- Jare 7mo agoI don't know, these days skeletons seem to be treated as funny decoration and we're in a permanent state of Halloween.
- redanddead 7mo agoSullying Halloween's good name
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- BigTTYGothGF 7mo agoThose "should"s are doing a lot of heavy lifting.
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- firefax 7mo ago>his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA medical diagnoses can be incredibly useful in understanding past and future actions >there shouldn't be anything damning to release. ie, there ought not to be if the director is acting professionally that "if" is doing some heavy lifting given who we are discussing
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- rurp 7mo agoAre we talking about the same FBI director here? Professional and competent are not how I would describe Kash Patel. Given his overt buffoonishness and the whole administration's disdain for procedure and expertise I would be shocked if he didn't have extremely inappropriate content in his inbox.
- conception 7mo agoI believe “if” is doing a tremendous amount of work in parent’s comment.
- JeremyNT 7mo ago> The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. I have no idea why this would be the default assumption for somebody as sloppy and erratic as Patel. Look at how many people were emailing damning stuff to/from Epstein's personal email accounts from their own personal email accounts!
- bitwank 7mo agoYeah, the fact they announced it proves it’s nothing. I saw a picture of him smoking a cigar. We’ve already seen him drinking beer and acting foolish; probably enough to get you executed in Isfahan, but a giant nothining in the USA.
- GorbachevyChase 7mo agoWe’re not getting any juicy leaks from it because it’s just full of 20-year-old memes and meeting invites to look busy.
- renegade-otter 7mo agoBut his girlfriend, though... https://www.tabletmag.com/the-scroll/articles/march-25-kash-patel-girlfriend-flynn-russians https://www.tabletmag.com/the-scroll/articles/march-25-kash-...
- MomsAVoxell 7mo agoIt would be damning to discover that he was compromised by a foreign adversary. Or that he was participating in actively covering up the Epstein crime portfolio. Maybe it wouldn’t be enough to get American citizens in an uproar, but the rest of the world certainly pays attention to these things.