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This assumes that leaking is a compulsive behavior. The federal government has stronger incentives to offer for not leaking information. Getting fired is nothing.

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On the other hand there might exist a deal where everyone involved is guaranteed a pardon as an incentive to sow as much chaos as possible.

This guy still thinks the employees of the fed gov(e.g. big balls) is working hard to protect his info

Eh, I think "stealing is bad" is a plenty sufficient rationale for the vast majority of people not to engage in this type of behavior regardless of what kind of threats people dangle over their head.

Obviously this kid would reasonably expect to get a pardon for any law he breaks anyway so long as he breaks it in service of the cult.

The idea that the federal government is entity able to look after it's own interests has taken quite a hit in my mind with recent events.

It's so strange to see this become a Partisan Issue so quickly and easily, when just a few short years ago everyone on the Internet cheered on Ron Paul's cries to Audit The Fed. (Yes, I know, “the Fed” means the Federal Reserve, and not the federal government—but that's clearly in the cards, too.)

And it's not as though the pre-smartphone Internet was majority Republican, of course—quite the opposite, if anything!

An audit means transparency and accountability, neither of which we have here.

One must ask oneself if one's views on the matter would be the same if the exact same actions were done by one's preferred political party, and reported upon favorably instead of unfavorably.

Uh, I guess one mustn't ask oneself this, judging by downvotes!

> Ron Paul's cries to Audit The Fed

Its "End the Fed"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_the_Fed

Yes, that the title of a book he wrote, as well as his eventual end goal for sure.

But he and others (including his son Rand, and Bernie Sanders) have also used the phrase “Audit The Fed” repeatedly as well, for various “Federal Reserve Transparency Acts”[0] over the years, since 2009—including a bipartisan one with Senator Grassley just this past November.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Transparency_A...

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