Andrew Weissmann
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Everything.
Yes, could there be classified material?
Seems unlikely, but there could be.
And could it be something that a good faith government would think does not need to, like shouldn't be declassified?
I'm not going to say it's impossible, but again, highly unlikely.
But that's not what we're talking about here.
So one, there is the question of the names of victims.
There, you can actually go to the victims and ask them if they are alive.
Obviously, not all of the victims are alive, but you can ask them, are they okay with having their names released?
A lot of the victims are public and have gone public voluntarily, so you could get consent.
If you get consent...
game over that deals with that issue.
Second, with respect to people who may have been caught up in this, I think there's sort of two different categories.
If it is information that suggests of a criminal nature,
There is a DOJ policy about sort of not besmirching people, sort of the put up or shut up.
And that's sort of one issue.
The thing about were they just communicating with them and you might feel embarrassed or ashamed.
Let's just say that Larry Summers is in that category.
Sure.
You know, that's a very different thing.