Maintenance in progress

the trump administration restructured pepfar, the us global hiv program, so that support is conditioned on geopolitical transactions rather than recipient-country need, with reports of withheld treatment and slowed prevention work. separately the pentagon revoked former air force secretary frank kendall's classified access over an alleged media disclosure about air force one, and newly released documents show the fbi opened an undisclosed subcomponent investigation, 'oxferd comma', on 16 may 2017 premised on trump possibly acting for russia. three different levers — aid, clearance, archive — moving in the same direction of institutional re-scoring.

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