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“December 18: Noah: “I’m working on a theory ... that progressivism is now insisting on attaching a utility to sex ...” ... 🤔 December 16: I still wait on every daily podcast, but w respect to US national security issues, you - and in this case, your guest, Eli Lake - take liberties w history, presuming, I suspect, that your audience knows no better and will comfortably rely on your version of the facts. I concede that If you characterize FARA in the manner you did today, then your “case”/presentation appears more compelling. However in overselling your case, you discredit your case. In a former life, I had the policy of FARA in my inbox (yea, I know ... boring life) and the second Mr. Lake rolled out his characterization, it landed w a thud. Your characterization was inaccurate, if not willfully misleading. It’s getting harder to take him/Lake seriously w every new trip to his new cottage well. Right rudder: John, re FISA ... S is “surveillance” ... but, more important, the FISC (The Foreign intelligence *Surveillance* Court) issues no warrants; it grants only Orders ... never a warrant. The word/term, “warrant” appears nowhere in Title 50, USC; Section 1801. There are good and gray reasons for this, but that’s for another time. All the best. John (former DOJ and NSC @WH/43) June 4: I’ve listened weekly for years - and now daily for months - at what is, day in and day out, the best podcast out there. But the first 15 minutes today, 6/4/2020, bordered on reckless. We get that Christine is a victim of sorts of the recent un-civil conduct in her neighborhood, but that is precisely why her observation(s) should have been balanced by less a incautious disregard for the implications of “norm”ing the use of federal troops. Quick and facile references to Eisenhower’s call out of the Army weaken rather than strengthen your argument for the critical distinctions/nuances you chose to ignore in a hyper-paternal offering to your audience. Federal military action in the face of overt, intransigent defiance of a valid court order by a State is not the same as individuals behaving criminally and violating state/local laws and a State responding however poorly to it. 18 USC, 1385 (Posse ...) has a long and anguished back-story in this country that deserved better than it got in today’s podcast. Facile deconstruction of this type in the service of fewer broken windows in Georgetown invokes the specter of the kind of “what comes next” about which you were so comfortable blithely cautioning the Congressional Democrats just 25 minutes later in the podcast. Still ... looking forward to tomorrow. Best to all. (former DOJ and WH/43)”
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