It's been 14 months of binge w/gf. Some key conclusions. Some new, some not.
What were yours?
2/ The great nation state of #Canada 🇨🇦 has unbelievably disproportionate number of actors per its population.
I mean, seriously, everyone is Canadian!! 😆
3/I love TV shows from down under🇦🇺. Particularly enjoyed #Rake, #Offspring & #Sisters. But it's like they need to use same actors at same time! With only 12 million less ppl than Commonwealth sister country 🇨🇦, what's up with this!
6/ I'm amazed how many tv series I had no idea about, notwithstanding they had major stars and were on for years. @GraceandFrankie was particularly awesome.
7/Back down under in 🇦🇺, our Aussie cousins have best English language slang & sayings (& I lived in both US & UK).
I really need to write these down & try to use them in legal briefs! Get on that @BradMossEsq!
8/I didn't know I ever liked @rickygervais, but his show #AfterLife is really moving & funny, which is not easy dealing with topics he covers. Looking forward to next season.
1/My colleague & old friend #AllanGerson, who led efforts to sue #Libya for bombing of #PanAm103, passed away of rare neurodegenerative disease in Dec 2019. His posthumous book "Lies that Matter" is abt to be published. Few knew his true story for years.
3/Allan had amazing career. We met when I was 3rd year law student & started working together following year. We spent years pursuing #Libya for families of #PanAm103 victims. We filed first lawsuit in 1993 & ultimately settled case for $2.7B in 2003.
Today is impt deadline for USGOVT in ensuring release of #JFKassassination records. Fed agencies had to identify to @USNatArchives specific basis for postponing release of records beyond Oct 26, 2021.
Here is some history on releasing all records.
2/In 1992, Congress passed President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Supp. V. 1994), which required all government agencies to search for records in their possession concerning assassination & place them in #NationalArchives.
3/A Review Board was established to identify & retrieve all "assassination records". I co-authored law review article in 1993 defining that term & identifying most important assassination records to obtain.
1/Although this is candidly not new, little known law that governs @DeptofDefense employment, esp for cleared positions, shows how absurd current cannabis policy is.
2/To be hired "[t]The person shall not be an unlawful user of, or addicted to, a controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802))."
What does that mean?
3/"For the purposes of these special employment criteria, 'unlawful user' is defined as any unlawful use of a controlled substance within the preceding 12 months of the individual’s certification of these Conditions of Employment."
1/Today we wrote Attorney General #Garland requesting #Biden Administration @TheJusticeDept to open criminal inquiry into war crimes of #Libyan warlord #KhalifaHifter, a US citizen & VA resident. The War Crimes Act of 1996, 18 USC 2441(b), permits prosecution.
1/Last Nov we filed #FOIA lawsuit for @JMadisonProject & @NoahShachtman against @Interior to learn who tweeted this unprofessional Public Affairs msg in response to @TimFullerton. No federal agency should act this way. Today, we settled case & learned @BenGoldey was responsible.
2/@BenGoldey was @USInteriorPress from May '20 to near end of Trump Administration. I have been in DC for 30 yrs & was truly disturbed by unprofessionalism he openly demonstrated as public servant. I don't know if it was his young age or environment.
3/No shock that @BenGoldey went to work for @RepBoebert, which says lot abt him (none good). Apparently even she was too extreme for him. He quit aft ten days due to Jan 6th insurrection attempt by Trump supporters & presumably her connection/comments.