Badlands Daily: 10/8/26 - Fauci’s Diary, Gitmo Confessions Tossed & the Red Undertow
CannCon opens Thursday's Badlands Daily solo with a USAID watchdog report on a new round of debarments, from a contracting officer an inspector general found misusing government equipment to two men convicted of defrauding taxpayers through a Project HOPE program. He then reads The New York Times on a military judge throwing out "clean team" confessions in a Guantanamo 9/11 case, comparing the account to Zero Dark Thirty, and digs into newly released Fauci diary entries, questioning Fauci's claim that confidential files were lost in a ransomware attack. After a look at two lawsuits over…
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