Subj : Re: Useless crap
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue Feb 11 2025 10:52:00

>  MP> Aside from removing your AG's access, most of the people who lost access
>  MP> were likely going to lose it anyway so announcing it like it is some big
>  MP> accomplishment is not really news.  It is, as your subject line suggests,
>  MP> useless crap that didn't warrant the administration bragging about it.

> The Biden part seems significant. He is the only former president who won't be
> receiving intelligence briefings.

There is some significance to that, indeed, but with his declining mental
condition, I am not so sure it is as significant as we might believe.
OTOH, it would not be bad for this administration to at least consult with
some members of the previous one.

Kennedy consulted a lot with Eisenhower.  Clinton supposedly consulted some
with George H.W. Bush.  George W. Bush supposedly consulted with Clinton,
and Obama supposedly consulted some with Bush.

Even if you don't like how they handled *anything*, there could be something
they have record of that you would not want to overlook.  You don't want to
go into the next Afghanistan pullout as unprepared as Biden was.

> But as for Leticia James, she shouldn't have had any federal security clearanc
> in the first place. It makes me wonder who else has access to federal data and
> shouldn't.

I don't know why an AG would need it.  Other departments would need it.
You do realize that, when you file your taxes electronically, your state
receives a copy of your Federal tax return data, right?  I don't know about
NY, but Kentucky uses some of the federal forms (like Schedule C and maybe F)
to reduce the redundancy of forcing a taxpayer to fill out the exact same data
twice, and to reduce the redundancy (and cost) of maintaining the exact
same tax forms.


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