The source of the cancer of the out of control Deep State?
One law and one Executive Order may be the root cause of the craziness
One of the core reasons I was able to get through 35 plus years of national security service in and out of uniform without ever being charged or indicted was always always always knowing my legal left and right limits. I’m happy to leverage gray space in Law and Regulation - but one has to have a good nose and good judgement on these matters and one has to know personally, with great fidelity, the legal basis for what they are doing at all times. No one has ever been charged with violating the Paperwork Reduction Act (plenty of gray space), but export an Atomic Clock without the proper Export Control paperwork, DOJ/FBI will land like a ton of bricks with no warning (as they should in this case). Zero gray space and the guardrail is well to the left of the laws and regulations for this topic area.
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