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Lisa Jean Walker's avatar

Can the government be sued for releasing information that puts people at risk of identity theft? Class action suit? Hope so.

Not that Trump cares about wasting taxpayers’ money. Everyday is another chance for him to make a splash in the news. It’s all he cares about. It’s our entertainment, he thinks.

Susan Teel's avatar

I second this question regarding is it possible to sue the government in this case. I would hope for some accountability and for some consequences, but fear not.

Don Palumbo's avatar

For most of my adult life I believed that a sinister conspiracy was responsible for JFK’s assassination. Oliver Stone certainly added fuel to that fire. But two years ago I decided to actually read the Warren Report and its accompanying witness transcripts. I quickly saw the foolishness in my thinking.

Most conspiracy theorists trash the Warren Report as just a cover up. Why? Because that’s what they were told by the Mark Lane’s of the world. I’m willing to bet 99% of them never read the Warren Report.

Patr's avatar

I wonder if the present administration is able to differentiate between movie conspiracy theories and reality. The lack of foresight before releasing a non- redacted file without checking WHAT the redacted material is, is beyond comprehension. Not exactly helpful when considering all the other issues we’re dealing with in this regime.

Traveling Tumbleweed's avatar

Imagine what the President Musk & PINO trump is sharing with Putin. President Musk most likely has so much information with his Tech Bros gathering information from all the departments that can be shared to X whenever he chooses. This regime is cruel and heartless. They are most likely enjoying the pain and inconvenience they are causing all that have had their info put out into the world. Awful people aka Russian assets.

Ted Mayhugh's avatar

Love the summation about the conspiracy that doesn't exist; and never did; "Just like Loch Ness, Bigfoot, and DOGE’s skills in mathematics".

Judy Kerman's avatar

I keep wondering how much of this stupidity and incompetence is just that, and whether there are some lower-level people who are doing things stupidly halfway on purpose. There is a pattern…

Alexandra's avatar

I hope that Oliver Stone paid us taxpayers back.

Cherae Stone's avatar

Wasted money, real harm and no truth.

That about says it.

Aaaaand, curtain.

Glenda Pennington's avatar

I wonder if anyone around Trump questions his statement, “I have common sense.” All evidence is to the contrary. All this harm comes because a sufficient number of people believed that Trump was bluffing in his extreme statements and would use common sense in carrying out his goals.

Sally Buechel's avatar

"Just like Loch Ness, Bigfoot, and DOGE’s skills in mathematics." Love it lol

Bruce Kelley's avatar

Textbook example of how a conspiracy theory is born. And, another lesson in how politicians who use political theater to promote autocracy (Trump, Gabbert, Comer, etc.) threaten our security.

It's Come To This's avatar

The best evidence that there was no conspiracy is that nobody's ever stepped up to the plate and said 'I did it.' People simply do not understand how porous Washington DC is. The State Department classifies its laundry basket, yet somehow leaks happen, information gets revealed, the truth outs itself.

Nobody'd done it for JFK. It's boring, but there it is.

Carolyn O's avatar

Oh, and by the way, everyone alive at the time of JFK's assassination remembers where they were. I was in my third grade class room and our teachers brought in the TVs on stands so we could see the historic news.

One person who says he "doesn't remember where he was" on that day was George Bush, who likely was in the CIA in the early 60s, managing right wing Cuban exileswho were seen in the Zapruder film, yet claimed he was just in the oil industry. Don't believe everything the CIA tells you. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp99-01448r000401580068-7

Carolyn O's avatar

Contrarian readers, I thought you'd be able to see through this. Of course, Brian O’Neill, a retired senior executive from the CIA and National Counterterrorism Center, defends the one shooter conspiracy. As long as the CIA stands, there will never be a full accounting of the JFK assassination. If you read the Contrarian, I'm not sure why you accept at face value the likely cover of the CIA.

I highly recommend a book by James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.

Tom Roberts of National Catholic Reporter wrote in his review that Douglass postulates two theses at variance with conventional wisdom:

The first is that John F. Kennedy, that quintessential cold warrior who seemingly couldn't wait to invade Cuba, who went to the brink of nuclear annihilation over missiles in our hemisphere and who rolled tanks to the Berlin Wall to face off with communist tanks on the other side, was actually undergoing a deep conversion to peacemaker during his brief tenure as president. The second is that that conversion -- documented by Mr. Douglass from secret communications between Kennedy and his archrival Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev; between Kennedy and Cuba's Fidel Castro; from memos and executive orders, some released as a result of a federal law enacted in 1992 -- so angered the U.S. intelligence and military communities that they got rid of him.[1]

Stephanie Hobbs's avatar

Conspiracy nuts gotta nut.