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Anonymous ID: a8dff3 Jan. 25, 2025, 5:55 a.m. No.22432057   🗄️.is 🔗kun

GOP lawmakers' lewd texts kept House from subpoenaing Hutchinson in Jan. 6 probe: report

 

A sexting problem in the GOP could have kept Republicans from interrogating a key political target.

 

The Washington Post reports that Republicans avoided subpoenaing Mark Meadows' former Chief of Staff Cassidy Hutchinson last year to avoid the embarrassing fallout of her testimony. An aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson worried Hutchinson could bring up sexually explicit texts from GOP representatives.

 

As part of a GOP-launched probe into the bipartisan committee to investigate Jan. 6, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., floated issuing a subpoena for the former White House aide’s testimony. According to correspondence reviewed by the Post and an anonymous source with knowledge of the event, a Johnson aide warned Loudermilk that a subpoena risked exposing “sexual texts from members who were trying to engage in sexual favors.” In an email, another Johnson staffer reportedly told Loudermilk’s office that Hutchinson could “potentially reveal embarrassing information.”

 

The subpoena plan was part of a broader GOP effort to poke holes in the work of the previous Jan 6 Committee, including Hutchinson’s testimony that Donald Trump ignored warnings about potential violence.

 

Johnson denied that he spoke out against bringing Hutchinson to testify.

 

“I had nothing to do with that, the decision not to issue a subpoena to Cassidy Hutchinson was made by the chairman of that committee, and that’s Barry Loudermilk,” Johnson said on Thursday, following the Post's report. The speaker claimed that Hutchinson had already agreed to cooperate with the committee, and thus a subpoena wasn’t needed.

 

On Wednesday, Johnson carried on Loudermilk’s effort to relitigate Jan. 6 and the subsequent investigation, empaneling a subcommittee to probe the work of the original committee.

 

“House Republicans are proud of our work so far in exposing the false narratives peddled by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, but there is still more work to be done,” Johnson said in a statement.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-lawmakers-lewd-texts-kept-021140493.html

Anonymous ID: a8dff3 Jan. 25, 2025, 5:58 a.m. No.22432074   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump fires 17 independent inspectors general at federal agencies, source says

 

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way to replace them with loyalists.

 

The inspectors general at agencies including the departments of state, defense and transportation were notified by emails from the White House personnel director that they had been terminated immediately, the source said on condition of anonymity.

 

The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires the president to give both houses of Congress reasons for the dismissals 30 days in advance.

 

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

An inspector general is an independent position that conducts audits and investigations into allegations of waste, fraud and abuse of power.

 

Agencies are pressing ahead with orders from Trump, who returned to the presidency on Monday, to reshape the federal bureaucracy by scrapping diversity programs, rescinding job offers and sidelining more than 150 national security and foreign policy officials.

 

Friday's dismissals spared the Department of Justice inspector general, Michael Horowitz, according to the New York Times. The Washington Post, which was first to report the dismissals, said most were appointees from Trump's 2017-2021 first term.

 

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, called Trump's action a "purge of independent watchdogs in the middle of the night," posting on X: "President Trump is dismantling checks on his power and paving the way for widespread corruption."

 

Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, an ally of the president, defended the decision on X, saying "existing IGs are virtually worthless."

 

"They may bring a few minor things to light but accomplish next to nothing," she wrote. "The whole system needs to be revamped! They are toothless and protect the institution instead of the citizens."

 

Many politically appointed leaders of agencies and departments come and go with each administration, but an inspector general can serve under multiple presidents.

 

During his first term, Trump fired five inspectors general in less than two months in 2020. This included the State Department, whose inspector general had played a role in the president's impeachment proceedings.

 

Last year, Trump's predecessor Joe Biden fired the inspector general of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, after an investigation found the official had created a hostile work environment.

 

In 2022, Congress strengthened protections for inspectors general, making it harder to replace them with hand-picked officials and requiring additional explanations from a president for their removal.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-least-12-independent-043418795.html

Anonymous ID: a8dff3 Jan. 25, 2025, 6:09 a.m. No.22432120   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Anonymous ID: a8dff3 Jan. 25, 2025, 7:03 a.m. No.22432343   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2352

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LOCAL NEWS

Just How Much Water Are Silicon Valley Data Centers Guzzling?

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July 20,2015/ 2:14 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco

 

CBS SF) – As the California drought lingers on and the threat of rising water rates becomes reality, Silicon Valley companies are looking for alternative methods to keep its computer farms cool.

 

The machines that hold everything from Facebook photos to viral YouTube videos, ATM transactions and medical records require large amounts of water to keep the servers from overheating.

 

Agriculture in California accounts for 80 percent of water consumption, making it easier for data centers to pass under the radar of California's tightening water restrictions. And since water use isn't factored into the power usage effective standard to gauge the efficiency of computer facilities, water conservation efforts are often less prioritized. Plus, water is often cheaper than using electricity for more traditional air conditioned cooling methods.

 

But with California home to more 800 data centers, the most of any state, it's a considerable amount of water for an increasingly thirsty state.

 

The state's data centers alone guzzle about as much 158,000 Olympic sized swimming pools in one year.

 

On average water-cooled server farms use about 3.5 million gallons per megawatts (MW) each year, according Green Grid board member Jack Pouchet. Decent-size data centers can range in scale from 5MW to 30MW.

 

A midsize data center (15 MW) alone uses as much as 100 acres of almond trees, or three average hospitals, according to the Wall Street Journal – and that's just for computer chips.

 

Some companies worried about the water crisis and potentially rising costs are shifting to less water-intensive cooling methods.

 

Vantage Data Center in Santa Clara, for example, is using an alternative cooling method. While two of the company's centers are cooled by a conventional system that sends cold water through the server room, the third pulls cool air in from outside when the conditions are right.

 

Then Santa Clara-based Digital Realty recently launched an internal water conservation challenge by working with local water utilities to determine where and how it can use recycled rather than drinkable water in its cooling systems.

 

Google is trying a similar approach by harvesting water from rain, canals and other non-potable sources.

 

The search engine giant, Facebook and some other companies are also relocating some of its data centers altogether to climates where facilities can be cooled by the outside air year-round such as Sweden and Finland.

 

Looking ahead, Pouchet said it's time for California with its plethora of renewable energy to consider building the all-electric data center that does not use any water for cooling. "

 

Perhaps we should stop worrying about electricity consumption when we can drive water use to zero," Pouchet said. "We have the technology available today. With proper tax credits and utility incentives we can retro-fit existing facilities to significantly reduce or eliminate water consumption. "

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/water-guzzling-silicon-valley-data-centers-california-drought-computers/