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You're demanding a standard of radical transparency for government officials that isn't supported by the law and has never been applied before or since.

It seems to be based on a presumption of guilt, which is a pretty severe departure from common principles of law and justice.

If you're sincere, I suppose you've been demanding that current members of the executive in leadership positions make all their personal communications public too?

The laws around this all generally exempt personal communications. You're Presuming people guilty is also not grounded in law.






Assuming I drop all pretense of wanting elected official to be auditable by “We the People”,

They complain about government officials using Telegram or Signal to communicate. Do you agree that they argue on the same line as me, just opposite clan, dismissing their own faults and pointing at others like it’s never been done before?


To communicate about classified information. That is the key distinction.



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