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Journalist and self-proclaimed Freedom of Information Act nerd Ken Klippenstein claims to have released Mangione’s manifesto. He also believes that some news sources are withholding it.

Manifesto (source: Klippenstein)

To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.

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    I don’t think this is complete. I read that police found a 3 page manifesto. That’s a long paragraph at best.

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      edit: word

      You’re correct in that the NYPD said that it was a “handwritten, three-page document” – I found it odd too – but, the “document” could’ve been on one of those mini notebooks, or in large print, or scrawled.

      From another perspective – if the transcription is incomplete, then Klippenstein either (1) omitted text by his own hand, (2) could not acquire the entire document but was unaware that he hadn’t, or (3) did not acquire the entire document but withheld his report’s weakness of breadth.

      I’m not sure Klippenstein’s incompleteness is very likely

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        I don’t think that journalist is lying. I just wondered if the leaker released the full document to him or if they gave him this and said that was it.

        I suppose it could be whatever was in the notebook.

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      It references that…

      This is some post he made somewhere, and it explicitly says there’s more info in the spiral notebook.