CDC Director Behind Deletion Of Evidence Of Interference In COVID Report

schmed · December 10, 2020, 5:47pm

Gee, maybe Joe can make history by pre-firing him by tweet right now.

jinnj · December 10, 2020, 5:48pm

Oh the Humanity!!!

inversion · December 10, 2020, 5:48pm

isepick · December 10, 2020, 5:49pm

I am sure that the incoming administration will be more than willing to overlook this and many other instances of records shenanigans in the interest of ‘healing’ and ‘moving on’.

trnc · December 10, 2020, 5:49pm

Seems like it, but I guess the penalties are reserved for the real crimes, like risotto recipes.

I had actually thought that Big Red was operating in a more legit way than most of DT’s minions. Took my eye off the ball for one second …

schmed · December 10, 2020, 5:49pm

Law. It violates a LAW.

davidn · December 10, 2020, 5:50pm

We should be fair here. President Obama was completely transparent, he wore his tan suit publicly for everyone to see.

Benadick Donnie has stolen, cheated, lied and covered-up. He has tried to hide everything, so this is only the things we publicly know about because despite desperate efforts of Benadick.

Just so we can compare apples to the rotten shat-out apples.

middleway · December 10, 2020, 5:50pm

Biden has already named Rochelle Walensky chief of infectious diseases at Mass General in Boston as the new CDC director so it sounds like Redfield is going bye bye.

darrtown · December 10, 2020, 5:51pm

trump is protected by that stupid DoJ memo but cannot other members of the admin get charged with willful negligence or some other felony? I am no lawyer, just a retired scientist who operates from actual evidence and data.

eggrollian · December 10, 2020, 5:51pm

Redfield should do the right thing and resign on the day Biden steps in. He can then argue that he just held on to prevent Trump from installing someone even worse. But look, when the country is losing more people per day than were killed in Pearl Harbor or 9/11, and 45% of the population still does not understand or believe that this is a pandemic, it is hard to say you’ve done a great job.

inversion · December 10, 2020, 5:52pm

No AG yet.

radicalcentrist · December 10, 2020, 5:52pm

Wasn’t preservation of records the whole issue behind the great scandal of Hillary’s email server?

benthere · December 10, 2020, 5:52pm

"When there’s trouble on the deck, look to the bridge." – old Navy saying

jpc · December 10, 2020, 5:52pm

Is this not a criminal offense? If so, charge him and put him in jail if convicted. Don’t worry about the expense - it will be a short trial with real evidence. He should also loose any federal pension. Oh just save everyone time and push him across the border - preferably the east coast border. Make sure he’s wearing his cement shoes, too.

jkrogman · December 10, 2020, 5:54pm

Redfield is a disgrace to his father, the eminent U Chi anthropologist of the same name who was a colleague of my father’s there.

rob_beatty_walters · December 10, 2020, 5:54pm

So one way to cleans this and other agencies of Trump’s stench will be to insist some of these people come before Congress and testify, under oath. Refusing to cooperate should be a firing offense. Looking forward to it.

schmed · December 10, 2020, 5:54pm

cervantes · December 10, 2020, 5:55pm

Sort of, and some who thought that was nothing will now call for Redfield’s execution.

Life goes on.

inversion · December 10, 2020, 5:55pm

o/t

i hate inevitability, but it loves to eff with me.

jkrogman · December 10, 2020, 5:55pm

Nope. It was unethical tho.