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Read the article he wasn't the director of the FBI: "The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022"

Was that landing page written by Google India team !

It's possible it was breached in 2022 and they've held on to it until now.

It would be poetic justice to get the unredacted Epstein files via Iran...

> Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government

What, like J.Edgar?

> I feel sorry for his mother.

In all likelihood his upbringing is what made him this way.

Gone only because current leadership kicked them all to the curb and told them to get out of Washington. Only loyal talking heads are wanted there now.

The strong silent types were all fired for being "woke". We collectively decided that incompetence should be the top qualification for all positions of power, and the results are obvious.

I know someone who will be interested in bigger hands--big beautiful hands.

worth a try

Interesting comment: "if Iran ends up responsible for regime change in the US, i will be overjoyed as i die from irony"

Anybody dug through it yet?

Is it legal to download something like this?

These are a group that used outside signal chats to discuss war plans. What odds do you have that he didn't use a personal email to avoid future accountability?

You're assuming that he didn't use personal email for his FBI "work".

The US media has a clear understanding that their reporting on the war needs to be filtered and biased. This is not some coming-to-their-senses against sensationalism, but a nothingburger they know they can't sensationalize without great risk.

As is the case in any administration; let alone with an admin as vindictive as Trump's.

This "balanced take" warrants kudos?

We're not even pretending to lift the bar off the ground when it comes to mainstream media, are we?

This isn’t a written by a human — it's a AI-accelerated piece.

As if this is the first time this has ever happened.

How many former officials used personal accounts about government business?

How many corporate executives communicate business via personal accounts to avoid legal discovery?

How many individuals communicate outside their main email accounts to avoid scrutiny or attribution?

Point is, nobody should feel superior or shocked that such things like this happen. I understand some enjoy the privacy of their perceived enemies being exposed, but IMHO, nobody should be happy about invasion of anyone's privacy.

Most incompetent administration in the modern era.

> Let's hope we don't get another 9/11 in the next 1000 days because they are completely unprepared and won't ever see it coming, maybe even on purpose

Why would anyone bother to attack us now? This entire administration has done more to make The US weak and vulnerable than any outside attacker could have hoped to accomplish. They can just sit back and watch rome burn

How am I only finding out about this now... my sides

I mean, yes? You can give whatever weight you want to the whole thing, but the core issue with Hillary Clinton and the emails was that she was storing material on a private server rather than in official infrastructure.

If Patel didn't do such thing here, the breach should only expose personal stuff, if he did, then it's much more of a problem, but either way this is a really clear example of why concern was raised back at the time.

Is that the latest spin to defend the pedophile class?

I see you updated your comment, but in a way that doesn't make any sense. Of course the pedophiles in the files will say it's a hoax.

The DOJ acknowledges that over 100,000 files are still withheld.

>just a slow decline into incompetence.

Give them some credit, it’s been quite rapid.

This was an extremely limited leak. Just looked through the zip. I wouldn't doubt he does use his personal email for government purposes, but it's not in here.

Remember when that was considered an actual issue in 2016? I remember congressional hearings over this.

And it's not a coincidence that they're also the ones who shout about "meritocracy" the loudest.