White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations
I don’t understand the motivation. Lying and pretending is just going to make the situation worse and push the reckoning to a later date. Given that it is an election year it seems to me that punting this out is a really stupid idea for the incumbent administration.
Maybe they are just hoping that if they lie and withhold information long enough it will just disappear over summer? Seems like a really silly gamble with a huge potential downside and nearly nonexistent upside.
The "simplest" explanation would be that they were discussing the outbreak in China and using secret intelligence gathered by classified sources or processes to do so.
Even so, it would still be stupid to let those limited discussions be where policy was made.
> HHS has SCIFs because theoretically it would play a major role in biowarfare or chemical attacks.
Maybe public health isn't the only thing being discussed in these meetings?
Possible duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22547607 . I can’t tell which one was posted first.
The smallest consolation during the insanity of the Trump presidency is that it obvious that Trump and his goons have lived every second of it in fear.
Fuckers
This administration is the most crooked set of losers ever. From day 1, they've only divided and destroyed effective governance and shredded effective people from the government.
What are they going to do now? Let people die just to keep the economic illusion running or let people live with actual infection numbers and crash the stock market?