[amsat-bb] Who Let THIS Info Out?

[Bruce Perens]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, 3:42 PM David Swanson via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> Sure, he 'beat' the US State Department
> on his 1 little point, but 30+ State Attorney generals then went after him,
> and trumped up charges completely unrelated to his ITAR fight, came out of
> left field and got him.


So let's get this straight. Cody Wilson was sentenced to 7 years probation,
not prison, after he pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage girl.
There was plea-bargaining involved. However, it is really far from a sure
thing that this has anything to do with the defense distributed case.

To extend your argument, you are arguing that we should not use the
explicit carve-outs in ITAR and EAR because a state, not even the federal
government, might thus be inspired to bring specious sexual assault charges
against AMSAT.

I think it's fair to say this is out of left field conspiracy theorism
rather than any sort of legal strategy.

how about your claim that ARISS walked away?


I wrote that I was going to assume they walked off until told otherwise.
This falls pretty far short of a "claim". Frank immediately corrected me
and I accepted his correction quite publicly.

 How about the lie about Brennen being pressured this year?
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You mean "Brennan". His reply was: "I have made decisions on a number of
issues that warranted discussion both before and after the fact, and I
believe I've made at least one call with which every candidate would have
rather me made another by now. These discussions, even when ending in
disagreement, have universally been conducted with professionalism and in
the absence of the vigor that one may detect here."

I also accepted Brennan's report quite publicly.

In both cases I said something a little inflammatory in order to draw out
the people involved to make their own reports. It worked in both cases.
When they made those reports, I was quick to publicly show my acceptance
and support of them. This is a strategy I learned in rhetorics class. Yes,
it's manipulative. No, its purpose is not to propagate a lie.

Thanks

Bruce

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