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Thank you Senators @JohnCornyn and @MarkWarner for taking the lead on classification reform.
Reforming the classification system is a national security imperative.
This bill has now passed the Senate and hopefully will receive similar bipartisan support from @HouseIntel @MikeTurnerOH.
@PublicDeclass
https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-warner-bill-to-reform-security-classification-system-passes-senate
https://twitter.com/ezraacohen/status/1685078607389945857
Also thank you to the other co-sponsors of the classification reform legislation including @RonWyden @JerryMoran @SenatorCollins @SenAngusKing @SenatorRounds @SenatorHeinrich @SenBobCasey @SenatorLankford
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Our federal retirement system is investing millions in Chinese companies that make weapons designed to kill Americans serving in the military
I tried to end that today but 42 senators blocked it because we still have too many people who like to talk tough on China but never do anything about it
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.@realDonaldTrump stops by the Team Trump Iowa Office before heading to Des Moines for the Republican Party of Iowa — 2023 Lincoln Dinner…
Cornyn, Warner Bill to Reform Security Classification System Passes Senate | Senator Cornyn
https://twitter.com/publicdeclass/status/1685080795122110464
Reference site: https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-warner-bill-to-reform-security-classification-system-passes-senate
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) released the following statements after their Sensible Classification Act of 2023, which would increase accountability and oversight of the classification system, limit overclassification, and direct federal agencies to justify security clearance requirements, passed the Senate as part of theIntelligence Authorization Act included in the National Defense Authorization Act:
“Sensitive information helps the U.S. stay one step ahead of our adversaries, but it’s also important for the federal government to be transparent with the American people and our allies,” said Sen. Cornyn. “By streamlining and modernizing the declassification process, this bill would help strike the delicate balance between transparency and secrecy, and it is critical it be included in the final defense authorization legislation.”
“The government systematically overclassifies too much information, at a dangerous cost to both the nation’s security and the public trust. At the same time, we too often fail to protect the nation’s most important secrets. As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I think it is clear that our security classification system is badly in need of change,” said Sen. Warner. “Given the explosion in digital records, the status quo is no longer tenable. We’ve got too many people with access to a system that is devoid of accountability and has grown increasingly byzantine, bureaucratic, and outmoded. We need to protect our national security secrets, and then declassify those secrets when protections are no longer necessary. I’m glad that Congress is taking some action to establish accountability.”
The legislation is also cosponsored by Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Susan Collins (R-ME), Angus King (I-ME), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), James Lankford (R-OK), and Bob Casey (D-PA).
Background:
The classification system is in urgent need of reform. Technology has made it easier to classify files, but greater accountability and oversight is needed to ensure appropriate and timely declassification to rebuild trust between the government and the American people. Too many people have access to classified information, which contributes to rampant overclassification and lack of accountability.
The Sensible Classification Act of 2023 will codify classification authority, streamline the processes for declassification, direct training focused on sensible classification, invest in new technology to modernize the classification system, and direct a review regarding the necessity of existing security clearances to identify potential areas for additional reforms. This legislation:
Codifies classification authority as the President, Vice President, head of an agency, or the individual to whom such authority has been delegated in line with current practice pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and specifies how the authority is delegated and the training required to receive it;
Promotes efficient declassification for records under the Freedom of Information Act or Mandatory Declassification Review;
Requires training to promote sensible classification;
Improves the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) by allowing for additional staff to be hired and allowing members to serve until a successor is appointed;
Directs the federal government to develop a federated and integrated technology solution to the issue of classification and declassification;
And directs federal agencies to conduct a study on the necessity of number and types of security clearances with sufficient justification.
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Team Trump Iowa office visit in Des Moines!
https://twitter.com/thegeorgehq/status/1685067509538721792
From the WH:
Air Force One touched down at Dover AFB at 6:53 p.m. ET. pResident Biden disembarked from the plane at 7:07 p.m. ET.
Due to a bad weather call, he will be taking a motorcade to his residence in Rehoboth Beach, Del., where he will be staying over the next week.
Q: The WHOLE week?! I can guess why.. 😁
A: ➡️@MarcoPolo501c3
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🚨 In 2018, Hunter Biden paid a Russian pimp $25,000 from Joe Biden's bank account, causing the Secret Service to frantically rush to his hotel.
Hunter paid his father's phone bills, house repairs, and monthly expenses and told his daughter that he "paid for everything for this entire family for 30 years… But don't worry unlike Pop I won't make you give me half your salary."
The entire Biden family business model was selling access to the highest levels of the US government to foreign nationals without registering under the Foreign Agent Registration Act in violation of federal law.
The Bidens funneled the money through business partners and shell companies because they obtained it illegally as unregistered foreign agents representing interests in Russia, China, and Ukraine.
Evidence supporting these claims includes bank records, wire transfer statements, suspicious activity reports, witness testimony, and data from Hunter Biden's laptop, which the FBI verified as authentic in 2019.
The laptop contains the last decade of Hunter Biden's life, including hundreds of thousands of emails, text messages, audio recordings, and photographs.
Six banks, including JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, submitted over 170 suspicious activity reports to the Treasury Department regarding the Biden family, alleging their involvement in money laundering, human trafficking, and tax fraud.
Any average American family would face life in prison.
However, the Bidens live in the White House, where they weaponize the same Justice Department that just got caught offering Hunter Biden a sweetheart deal against their chief political rival.
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