Daniel Pocock wrote:
Its all in the last picture
Paul Tagliamonte, seconded the motion in Debian, with the co-founder of
Rebellion Defense and the top brass at the Pentagon.
https://debian.community/paul-tagliamonte-debian-usds-white-house-mob-ringleader/
I do not know where you are located, so perhaps you are unaware that
that is a fairly tenuous link in the USA -- the "military-industrial
complex" that President Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell
speech has grown very large and the "revolving door" between government
and private industry has been long-lamented and long-pilloried.
Tagliamonte, whose actions are legitimate to discuss because he has
publicly promoted a position on the issue, would have been hired in
2015, based on the email you quote in that article. He was thus hired
under the Obama administration and was among the large set of employees
carried over through most of the Trump administration. It is possible
that Tagliamonte's hiring may have been unduly influenced by political
considerations, as the USDS is very closely associated to the
Presidential administration -- the Executive Office of the President
that contains USDS is the nearest nonpolitical organization to the
President of the United States.
As such, Tagliamonte would have been considered a civil service
employee, and was supposed to have been hired on an apolitical basis. I
do not know how familiar you are with ongoing political controversies in
the USA, but there has been considerable controversy over claims of
politicizing the civil service and I remember a running pattern of these
claims being made by whichever side was not currently in power for the
past few administrations at the least. (Democrat President?
Republicans complain. Republican President? Democrats complain.)
In conclusion, while asking his employer if they are being paid to help
instigate a mob against RMS seems to be an amusing example of "sauce for
the gander", Tagliamonte's previous government employment and trip
through the "revolving door" to the private sector does not stand out as
reason to suspect that the government is somehow behind the attacks on
RMS. The "revolving door" is simply too widespread to support a claim
of that type of corruption.
-- Jacob
