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> associated with the subpoenas received in March and April 2023.

Oddly specific wording there. It would seem they have received additional subpoenas outside that timeframe which do have gag orders, and someone slipped up and failed to put the gag orders in these particular subpoenas.

Seems like the DOJ may be doing some long-term fishing for, what, software developers? First the DOJ came for the conservatives, and I said, "go get 'em!" because I wasn't a conservative; next the DOJ came for ____?



It's interesting how you manage to leap from what is probably a supply chain attack investigation straight into a pErSeCuTeD CoNsErVaTeS conspiracy.


Step one: have position and power as part of a dominant group

Step two: style yourself as an oppressed minority

Step three: defend any action, decision, or position as a persecuted martyr


Across the ages, government has applied a disproportionate level of scrutiny to groups and people perceived as dissidents, minorities, and anyone else who could potentially be conceived as a threat to institutional power regardless of the magnitude of the threat or if that threat is true or false. Historically this is a bipartisan issue, for decades the FBI vigorously attacked anti-war groups, black civil rights groups, and various left wing groups via COINTELPRO. I guess to summarize, the way I think of it is that the government is coming for anyone they see as a potential threat and it doesn't matter what the politics of that group are.




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