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> At the Department of Justice, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed, according to a report from Donie O’Sullivan and Katelyn Polantz at CNN

> Several pages on the Center for Disease Control have also been removed, including information on LGBTQ+ rights, HIV and adolescent health, reports Will Stone and Selena Simmons-Duffin from NPR

From https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2025/feb/04/the-fight...



We’ve always been at war with Eurasia.

This wholesale purge of data is an effort to rewrite history. Hopefully the Internet can mostly remember.


> Several pages on the Center for Disease Control have also been removed, including information on LGBTQ+ rights, HIV and adolescent health, reports Will Stone and Selena Simmons-Duffin from NPR

A federal judge has already ordered to restore that data

https://fedscoop.com/federal-judge-orders-hhs-cdc-fda-to-res...


The folks r/datahoarders have been trying to get ahead of the war on information.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1icstrv/the_de...


> At the Department of Justice, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed, according to a report from Donie O’Sullivan and Katelyn Polantz at CNN

Like it or hate it, they're all pardoned now and don't have a criminal record.


If I interpret [1] correctly, then they still have a criminal record?

"Please also be aware that if you were to be granted a presidential pardon, the pardoned offense would not be removed from your criminal record. Instead, both the federal conviction as well as the pardon would both appear on your record."

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions


Pardons are usually forgiveness. They add to the record rather than erase it.




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