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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1074 [SLACK_001288] · slack_pm:msg:11204

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Date
2022-01-24 14:19
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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I assume you can decline?

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  1. 2022-01-24 13:45 Robert F. Garry open
    A lot of good decisions were made during the writing of PO1 - it will indeed hold up very well.
  2. 2022-01-24 13:48 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I'm still amazed at how on-point we were so quickly. We must have worked hard at the time...
  3. 2022-01-24 13:53 Edward C. Holmes open
    How are the GOP harrassing you?
  4. 2022-01-24 14:10 Kristian G. Andersen open
    JAQing off is what they're doing... Got two emails this morning to appear at "staff meetings", including from good oldComer and Jordan. Talking to our outside council on Wednesday to figure out how best to deal with this.
  5. 2022-01-24 14:19 Edward C. Holmes
    I assume you can decline?
  6. 2022-01-24 14:30 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Absolutely, but the problem is that once they take the House (in November) they'll subpoena me (and Bob) and _that_ I/we cannot decline. That being a legal process, they could also obtain all our documents, emails, etc. - so the game we're playing right now is to be helpful enough such that we can defuse future developments. It's very tricky.
  7. 2022-01-24 14:55 Edward C. Holmes open
    I'd put them off for as long as possible. There's nothing in any of this and who knows what we will be debating inNovember. 10 months is long time in politics.
  8. 2022-01-24 14:58 Kristian G. Andersen open
    That's unfortunately not how these things work - once they take the House they'll look at all the various requests and say "alright folks, what's missing". This'll be on top of their list for certain (several of the folks we have on outside council have worked in the House - on both sides - so they have good intel). Hoping it'll go away is like hoping COVID-19 will go away - it won't, and if they get cross, it only gets worse. I'll keep you posted on what I learn on Wednesday.
  9. 2022-01-24 15:15 Edward C. Holmes open
    I'm not saying it will go away but I wouldn't give them anything now. I don't see what that achieves. My University will want all my emails redacted.

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