Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals Don't Mess with the Archivists! Donald Trump's Documents Troubles. And R.I.P. Barbara Ehrenreich (G&R 181)
Donald Trump might finally be in real trouble, because of . . . archivists?
Green and Red shows the love to archivists and librarians!
We had a good discussion in this episode about the way national security documents are classified, who can see them, how they're de-classified, and Trump's theft of vital top secret documents that prompted the FBI to search Mar-a-Largo.
With the Cold War, the government, the National Security State, created a new system of classification, official secrets and surveillance. It was done to prevent spies and foreign governments from gaining access to high-level secrets and it was always used against the Left--the Rosenbergs, Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, Reality Winner, etc. It's impossible to imagine that the Americans who created this system thought that a former U.S. president would be the target of an official investigation for taking and possibly sharing such secrets with a foreign government, but here we are.
We also discussed the way that even significant segments of the GOP and conservative media--such as Bill Barr and Fox News--have been emphasizing this story and Trump's misdeeds.
And at the end we paid tribute to a legend of the Left, the late Barbara Ehrenreich.
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Links//
- Can Trump Just Declare Nuclear Secrets Unclassified? (https://bit.ly/3RE0Jpj)
- America’s secrets: Trump’s unprecedented disregard of norms (https://bit.ly/3LbP7aK)
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- G&R: The Coup That Wasn't (https://bit.ly/RulingClassGandR)
- G&R: The Capitol Hill Riots and the Ruling Class (https://bit.ly/RiotsRulingClassGandR)
- G&R: Baseball and Bosses vs. the Georgia GOP (https://bit.ly/CorpResistGandR)
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