Episode Details

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 Military vs. Donald J. Trump  (https://apple.co/3cDUso8) 
• 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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