At least with Iraq they attempted to manufacture consent.

I’ve been on the receiving end of these. It’s such a monumental time waster. All the reports look legit until you get into the details and realize it’s complete bullshit.

But if you don’t look into it maybe you ignored a real report…

Contributors is my favorite metric. It shows that there are lots of eyes on the code. Makes it less likely of a single bad actor being able to do bad things.

That said, the supply chain and sometimes packaging is very opaque. So it almost renders all of that moot.

But the advisers found the claim to be untrue and complained that they were being fed dubious information by Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who had been tasked with overseeing the investigation.

When misinformation comes naturally even your friends have no clue what’s real.

I mean, she was VP just a few months ago.