OA623: This Week in High Treason
Added 2022-08-19 05:32:16 +0000 UTCThere's still SO much to talk about in the Mar-a-Lago Treason Trove! Lots of updates on that, plus the Weiselberg plea, Trump passports, and more! We also squeeze in a wildcard on Alex Jones's loser lawyers.
Links: The Atlantic article that is wrong, 42 U.S. Code § 2274 - Communication of Restricted Data, Jonathan Toebbe case, 10 CFR Part 1045 -- Nuclear Classification and Declassification, Classification of Nuclear Weapons-Related Information, Dep’t of the Navy v. Egan, Trump’s passports returned, Norm Pattis Sanctions order, Reynal order, Pattis "moved to dismiss", Alex-Jones-Kyng-S.-Lee-Affidavit
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PS: If I could hire myself as a consultant on my own project, I totally would.
Fame and fortune guaranteed in the state of Tintucky
2022-08-26 19:37:50 +0000 UTCThomas would have known in advance that classification status is not a factor in the search warrant if he was a pre-post-level patron for "Aisle 45". Clearly Andrew is sabotaging OA ^.^ Solution: Thomas needs to hire Andrew and AG as independent consultants so they can tell Thomas and Andrew what to talk about on the show.
Fame and fortune guaranteed in the state of Tintucky
2022-08-26 19:35:24 +0000 UTCWith apologies Andrew, but I believe I do have a minor Andrew Was Wrong--HIPAA only applies to covered entities, which are health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers who have ever done a covered health care transaction electronically (once you do one, you're a covered entity for life). I raise this not to be pedantic, but because it does matter, and is a major difference between how the EU handles this type of information and how the US handles it. In the EU, health information is protected because it is health information--it's protected based on the kind of data it is. In the US, however, protections differ depending on who has the information. (My hope is that one day, folks will understand the difference, and make a move to make our system closer to that of the EU's, which makes more sense to me! Of course, I also hope that people will learn that it is HIPAA, and not HIPPA, HIPPO, or other spellings I see. I may be too much of an Optimus Prime in that one area.) For example, my understanding is that if a health provider in the EU leaves their window open, accidentally knocks a folder of patients' records out the window, and a journalist finds it on the ground, it is still protected health info that the journalist can't publish, anymore than the doctor could hold a press conference to announce. Whereas in the US, same scenario, journalist may fall afoul of other torts, such as invasion of privacy or something along those lines, but HIPAA isn't triggered--the journalist isn't a covered entity. Same data, but HIPAA's protections is based on who has the data/makes the disclosure, and not what the data is. Alex Jones's lawyers may have fallen afoul of other restrictions/conditions, but HIPAA isn't going to be one of them.
Jed
2022-08-22 12:19:39 +0000 UTC
