@peter.benjamin

[thwipandrelease]

So I know I can't be the only one who's had the unexpected pleasure of coming into possession of messages that aren't intended for my consumption. I'm not talking about you getting someone's private love letters or metaphorical cat video links, which I've gotten and deleted.

If I were back home, I'd be sliding this info to my nearest and dearest investigative journalist type. Since I'm not, well, I guess I've got to take matters in my own hands.

It's an interesting read, so, I'm just going to include the unedited details for all.

[what follows is a copy of the message that peter had received earlier, sent from lydia gill-jade, which seems the sort of thing that would come up in a current headlines search if it weren't presumably a secret. well, so much for that, huh?]

Maybe it's just me, but do people usually name successors for campaign donations?

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@rodney.mckay

[doubledoctornocitrus]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or are you actually talking about corruption in politics?

[Rodney slaps a linke to his own misfire into the message. ]

I might be biased, but the one thrown at me has the heavily implied 'people dying in space' subtext, which I object to on a personal level.

[thwipandrelease]

No, you're right. There's nothing new about this sort of thing. It's human. History books — man I miss those — are full of these stories.

Your message is very disconcerting. Are these people volunteering for this sort of work? Or are they "volunteering", because if that many people are dying in space, I can't imagine people would want to put their lives at risk, regardless of the reward.