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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I just want to be clear that the current GOP position is that stealing is wrong and against the law, right? Just want to make the clear because back in August I was hearing the opposite.

Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I just want to be clear that the current GOP position is that stealing is wrong and against the law, right? Just want to make the clear because back in August I was hearing the opposite.

Grow up.

How do we know he wasn't set up by the FBI? Maybe the CIA planted that suitcase. Or maybe that was his suitcase. We need a special master to make sure he's not being targeted.

[jsteele]

Just for clarification, Sam Brinton uses the pronouns they, them, and theirs:

https://www.energy.gov/ne/person/sam-brinton

"They identify as gender-fluid and use the pronouns they, them, and theirs."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I just want to be clear that the current GOP position is that stealing is wrong and against the law, right? Just want to make the clear because back in August I was hearing the opposite.

Grow up.

How do we know he wasn't set up by the FBI? Maybe the CIA planted that suitcase. Or maybe that was his suitcase. We need a special master to make sure he's not being targeted.

He admitted to taking it.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

[Anonymous]

So, let me get this straight... this happened over a month ago yet no major news source is reporting on it? So interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

+1
Had this been an appointee of the previous administration, this thread would be hundreds of pages long by now. Unreal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brinton has been on leave from DOE for at least a month, the agency has acknowledged. On Nov. 18, Kim Petry, the acting deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel who has stood in for Brinton, wrote in an email to DOE colleagues that she had been asked to stay on as head of the spent fuel office “for the foreseeable future” by Kathryn Huff, assistant secretary for nuclear energy.

“I should have another update for all of you in a month or so,” Petry wrote in the email. That timetable corresponds roughly with Brinton’s scheduled hearing in the Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis.

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/doe-spent-fuel-chief-brinton-charged-with-felony-theft/?fbclid=IwAR3A9iVaDFRDSjTOhmepjP2c-CdIzQpEVfLVpF65dEHl8NL4dlNTsDG8oRI

I want to commend the Biden administration, the NYT, and the WaPo for suppressing this story through the mid terms

+100
Well done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is any need to point out that she's a Dem or a Rep. She's a government official who was caught stealing. No need to pin this on one party or another. A thief is a thief.

But a person who works for the gov, appointed by the President, is quite a thief. Really a crazy story. And until today, suppressed.

That’s not on Biden. That’s on the press corps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is any need to point out that she's a Dem or a Rep. She's a government official who was caught stealing. No need to pin this on one party or another. A thief is a thief.

But a person who works for the gov, appointed by the President, is quite a thief. Really a crazy story. And until today, suppressed.

That’s not on Biden. That’s on the press corps.

Why would the press corp suppress this news story?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

+1
Had this been an appointee of the previous administration, this thread would be hundreds of pages long by now. Unreal.

Yep.

And had it been suppressed/ignored, heads would’ve rolled in newsrooms in NY and DC. Careers would’ve been ended. There would be accusations of bias, etc.

Instead…. crickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is any need to point out that she's a Dem or a Rep. She's a government official who was caught stealing. No need to pin this on one party or another. A thief is a thief.

But a person who works for the gov, appointed by the President, is quite a thief. Really a crazy story. And until today, suppressed.

That’s not on Biden. That’s on the press corps.

Why would the press corp suppress this news story?

Is this a serious question?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, let me get this straight... this happened over a month ago yet no major news source is reporting on it? So interesting.

Yes, it is interesting, isn’t it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is any need to point out that she's a Dem or a Rep. She's a government official who was caught stealing. No need to pin this on one party or another. A thief is a thief.

But a person who works for the gov, appointed by the President, is quite a thief. Really a crazy story. And until today, suppressed.

That’s not on Biden. That’s on the press corps.

Why would the press corp suppress this news story?

Is this a serious question?

It is. Do you have the answer?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:Several posters have reported this thread due to the source of the story. Here is a copy of the summons from Hennepin County:

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

Unless someone has done a pretty good job of forging that document, this should be sufficient evidence that the story is correct.

It’s a sad commentary on the state of our mainstream press that the only place you can find any coverage of this is on rightwing websites. That it happened is not in question. It absolutely happened. But the media ignores it.

Do you think CNN or other traditional media in this country would’ve ignored this story had this been an appointee of the prior administration? Of course not.


This is journalistic malpractice.

I used to detest the "rugged individuals" of the old Republican Party, but I now regret that they have been replaced by self-pitying whiners who never stop dwelling on their supposed victimization. The sad commentary is that the mainstream media has been decimated with journalists being laid off left and right. This case took place in Minneapolis. How many national news outlets do you think have journalists covering stolen suitcase crimes in Minneapolis? Do any of you believe that any news organization has been sitting on this story for a month? Cases like this get discovered by cub reporters digging through police and court records or, more likely in this case, an insider pointing a friendly reporter to it. CNN is not staking out the Hennepin County courthouse.