Biden Admin DOE official charged with felony in MN for stealing luggage at airport

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

What about the women, who had their clothing and personal items stolen and never returned? SB also has their luggage tags, names, and any personal things that were contained in their suitcases. SB stole their clothing and jewelry, and also their safety and peace of mind. It’s deeply invasive and unsettling to know someone has your personal items.

But of course, those women aren’t important.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

What about the women, who had their clothing and personal items stolen and never returned? SB also has their luggage tags, names, and any personal things that were contained in their suitcases. SB stole their clothing and jewelry, and also their safety and peace of mind. It’s deeply invasive and unsettling to know someone has your personal items.

But of course, those women aren’t important.

This is conflating two issues to construct a simplistic straw-man. Hopefully prosecutors can recover some of the missing items but who in their right mind checks a bag containing $1700 in jewelry or other items? There rings of professionals who steal luggage from baggage claim areas. At least be wise enough to hide an AirTag in your bag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Brinton's expertise was in dealing with nuclear waste.

Here you're all making him out to be like someone guarding the secrets of our nuclear weaponry.

Nuclear waste can be used to make a dirty bomb.

Or reprocessed to obtain plutonium.

Not easily. Why are we making up fake scenarios?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

What about the women, who had their clothing and personal items stolen and never returned? SB also has their luggage tags, names, and any personal things that were contained in their suitcases. SB stole their clothing and jewelry, and also their safety and peace of mind. It’s deeply invasive and unsettling to know someone has your personal items.

But of course, those women aren’t important.

This is conflating two issues to construct a simplistic straw-man. Hopefully prosecutors can recover some of the missing items but who in their right mind checks a bag containing $1700 in jewelry or other items? There rings of professionals who steal luggage from baggage claim areas. At least be wise enough to hide an AirTag in your bag.

Why can’t SB just return the items? If Biden trusts this person to work in high levels of government dealing with sensitive and dangerous issues, why are prosecutors having to recover these items? This is a huge problem with public trust in government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Brinton's expertise was in dealing with nuclear waste.

Here you're all making him out to be like someone guarding the secrets of our nuclear weaponry.

Nuclear waste can be used to make a dirty bomb.

You'd have to get your hands on it first. Its not like they are storing at at the DOE HQ.

Also, he's a weirdo but not a bomb maker.

SB has lied about so much- do we really know what they are capable of?

No one has ever successfully made and deployed a dirty bomb in a manner . Ever. In history. It's not clear that *anyone* can pull it off, much less some oversexed policy nerd with no history of making bombs, which is actually not a common or easily obtained skill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Brinton's expertise was in dealing with nuclear waste.

Here you're all making him out to be like someone guarding the secrets of our nuclear weaponry.

Nuclear waste can be used to make a dirty bomb.

Or reprocessed to obtain plutonium.

Not easily. Why are we making up fake scenarios?

Because nuclear fantasies are part of the public psyche. It's even central to The Simpsons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

What about the women, who had their clothing and personal items stolen and never returned? SB also has their luggage tags, names, and any personal things that were contained in their suitcases. SB stole their clothing and jewelry, and also their safety and peace of mind. It’s deeply invasive and unsettling to know someone has your personal items.

But of course, those women aren’t important.

This is conflating two issues to construct a simplistic straw-man. Hopefully prosecutors can recover some of the missing items but who in their right mind checks a bag containing $1700 in jewelry or other items? There rings of professionals who steal luggage from baggage claim areas. At least be wise enough to hide an AirTag in your bag.

Why can’t SB just return the items? If Biden trusts this person to work in high levels of government dealing with sensitive and dangerous issues, why are prosecutors having to recover these items? This is a huge problem with public trust in government.

Items were likely disposed of a long time ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

What about the women, who had their clothing and personal items stolen and never returned? SB also has their luggage tags, names, and any personal things that were contained in their suitcases. SB stole their clothing and jewelry, and also their safety and peace of mind. It’s deeply invasive and unsettling to know someone has your personal items.

But of course, those women aren’t important.

This is conflating two issues to construct a simplistic straw-man. Hopefully prosecutors can recover some of the missing items but who in their right mind checks a bag containing $1700 in jewelry or other items? They’re rings of professionals who steal luggage from baggage claim areas. At least be wise enough to hide an AirTag in your bag.

This is victim blaming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

What about the women, who had their clothing and personal items stolen and never returned? SB also has their luggage tags, names, and any personal things that were contained in their suitcases. SB stole their clothing and jewelry, and also their safety and peace of mind. It’s deeply invasive and unsettling to know someone has your personal items.

But of course, those women aren’t important.

This is conflating two issues to construct a simplistic straw-man. Hopefully prosecutors can recover some of the missing items but who in their right mind checks a bag containing $1700 in jewelry or other items? They’re rings of professionals who steal luggage from baggage claim areas. At least be wise enough to hide an AirTag in your bag.

This is victim blaming.

It is.

No mainstream news outlets have reported on these two incidents.

Victim blaming here, and the thread and 2 felonies (caught on video) are being ignored, or blame the victims. (Like SB would not have just thrown the airtag away.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

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Due process is not a concept this administration seems to understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

What about the women, who had their clothing and personal items stolen and never returned? SB also has their luggage tags, names, and any personal things that were contained in their suitcases. SB stole their clothing and jewelry, and also their safety and peace of mind. It’s deeply invasive and unsettling to know someone has your personal items.

But of course, those women aren’t important.

This is conflating two issues to construct a simplistic straw-man. Hopefully prosecutors can recover some of the missing items but who in their right mind checks a bag containing $1700 in jewelry or other items? There rings of professionals who steal luggage from baggage claim areas. At least be wise enough to hide an AirTag in your bag.

Just wow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Brinton's expertise was in dealing with nuclear waste.

Here you're all making him out to be like someone guarding the secrets of our nuclear weaponry.

Nuclear waste can be used to make a dirty bomb.

Or reprocessed to obtain plutonium.

Not easily. Why are we making up fake scenarios?

Then there's no reason to protect it. Sell it on eBay to the highest bidder. Income stream for the government and nuclear waste storage problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

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Due process is not a concept this administration seems to understand.

DP, but SES have far fewer protections, and politically appointed SES like Brinton are basically at-will employees. But that said, he probably negotiated some kind of adminstrative leave in exchange for an NDA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Brinton's expertise was in dealing with nuclear waste.

Here you're all making him out to be like someone guarding the secrets of our nuclear weaponry.

Nuclear waste can be used to make a dirty bomb.

Or reprocessed to obtain plutonium.

Not easily. Why are we making up fake scenarios?

Then there's no reason to protect it. Sell it on eBay to the highest bidder. Income stream for the government and nuclear waste storage problem solved.

Yeah sure, I'm cooking up a batch of enriched plutonium in my backyard as we speak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s a good argument they should resign but, as a member of the SES, they are entitled to due process and other civil service protections, including review by the MSPB. I hope they get whatever help is needed.

What about the women, who had their clothing and personal items stolen and never returned? SB also has their luggage tags, names, and any personal things that were contained in their suitcases. SB stole their clothing and jewelry, and also their safety and peace of mind. It’s deeply invasive and unsettling to know someone has your personal items.

But of course, those women aren’t important.

This is conflating two issues to construct a simplistic straw-man. Hopefully prosecutors can recover some of the missing items but who in their right mind checks a bag containing $1700 in jewelry or other items? They’re rings of professionals who steal luggage from baggage claim areas. At least be wise enough to hide an AirTag in your bag.

This is victim blaming.

It is.

No mainstream news outlets have reported on these two incidents.

Victim blaming here, and the thread and 2 felonies (caught on video) are being ignored, or blame the victims. (Like SB would not have just thrown the airtag away.)

Telling people to lock their front door is victim blaming? Far too many people with too little common sense results in crimes of opportunity. Luggage gets lost and stolen all the time. Even TSA warns travelers not to put jewelry in checked bags.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/jewelry