1/Important new @DHSOIG report regarding insurrectionist events of #January6th:
"I&A identified specific threat information related to the
events on January 6, 2021, but did not issue any
intelligence products about these threats until January 8, 2021."
Where is he now? He is senior staff member on @January6thCmte investigating #January6th! How is that not clear conflict of interest & horrible visual that undermines credibility of Select Comm?
1/My experience with the Presidential Records Act.
About 15 years ago I was bidding on this item at auction. It was described as: "Harry S. Truman Typed Letter Signed and Original Top Secret Telegram". Docs were from 1949 & dealt w/atomic energy issues & @CIA.
2/But how could there be original Top Secret doc for sale? Would be illegal to possess. Except bottom right corner has original declassification stamp from @USNatArchives that doc was declassified in 1995.
What? Why isn't this at NARA then?
3/I notified @USNatArchives, which I work with (& sue!) often, that there might be stolen classified item for public sale. I was told it was likely as many items had disappeared from Truman Presidential Library over the years & an Inspector General investigation would be opened.
"This case presented a prepublication classification review challenge of a manuscript under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that was pursued by the highest-ranking official – a former Secretary of Defense – to ever file this type of lawsuit...
1/Today is 36th anniversary of destruction of Space Shuttle Challenger & deaths of 7 heroes (6 astronauts & 1 teacher turned astronaut). Prior to 9/11, for my generation this tragedy was our Dealey Plaza. We all remember where we were when we heard the news.
2/We watched in horror time & time again as we heard words "Challenger, go at throttle up".
3/I was freshman at @UofR & had just come out of POLSCI class abt 15 minutes aft disaster. In our student center there used to be large screen television. Dozens of students surrounded the tv watching in silence.
1/My firm is now rep'ing Chelsea Manning (@xychelsea). We arranged for her manuscript to be submitted to @DeptofDefense for classification review to ensure compliance w/preexisting secrecy agreements. Memoir is scheduled for Oct publication by @fsgbooks.
"An intimate, revealing memoir from activist, politician, and WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning - sharing her life story as a soldier and her journey toward self-acceptance as a trans woman with a manifesto for transparency of identity for all."
3/"In 2010, Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the US Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. In August 2013, the United States Army sentenced Manning to 35 years ..."
1/Saddened to have learned of passing of former Baltimore City Circuit Court Chief Judge Joseph H.H. Kaplan (1936-2021), who presided over our litigation trial to exhume remains of #JohnWilkesBooth back in 1995.
3/Although he ruled against effort, he was consummate professional. I appreciated how he dealt w/me as very young lawyer (just 3 years out of school) who was handling first trial totally on own. As Chief Judge he specifically assigned case to himself as he was Civil War buff.
2/His uncle #PeterNivenKiger was staff member w/#WarResistersLeague. He refused to register for Viet Nam draft & sent to federal prison for one year. He continued protesting & refusing to register & was imprisoned on other occasions. He died Aug 19, 2019. warresisters.org/peter-kiger-19…
3/#WarResistersLeague was founded in 1923 & is oldest secular pacifist organization in US. It was subject of @FBI surveillance including as part of COINTELPRO.