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They Didn’t Pass Go, But…
They’re collecting WAY more than $100
Apologies for the fact this is a LONG article: It’s important, and getting little attention elsewhere — except in The Washington Post, quoted liberally here.
Investigations following 9/1 made it painfully clear that the 17 members of the US security agency community don’t generously share information with each other. In fact,it appears they are (or were) reluctant to share much of anything with each other, for reasons that will forever remain a mystery.
Some of that mess has been cleaned up — but, undoubtedly, not enough.
We were again reminded how failures to communicate can hamper ‘incident prevention’ in the weeks and months preceding 1/6/21, at the US Capital. That mess is still being investigated. And thanks to the unwillingness of Senate Republicans to even acknowledge that what happened that day was, in fact, an ‘insurrection’, we may never get to the bottom of how so much damage — physically, and deadly, and to the nation’s reputation — was done based on a multi-part lie repeated many times by then-president Donald J. Trump.
The Washington Post on 6/10/21 revealed another kind of communications breakdown — one that is costing the US Treasury untold sums: Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal prisoners’ account with The…
