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Sep 29, 2020, 5 tweets

in 2008, Danchenko, according to his now deleted CV archive.is/rK4M6, while at Georgetown and Brookings, also did an assignment for Jane's, now a subsidiary of IHS Markit, which annually publishes Jane's Fighting Ships en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_…

2/ in the recent Barr letter, the FBI reported that, in their prior investigation, one of Danchenko's associates (presumably at Brookings) said that he "persistently asked about" their knowledge of a particular military vessel.

3/ in the spirit of an aluminum tube not necessarily being evidence of WMD - a possibility insufficiently scrutinized by Colin Powell, is it possible that Danchenko's inquiry about military vessel was to make money from Jane's, as opposed to spying for Russia?

4/ to be clear, I mention this not to justify FBI failure to disclose prior questions about Danchenko as part of intel assessment. Their concealment of this information was reprehensible.

5/ Comey, McCabe, Priestap and Moffa purported to justify disregarding intel standards to include sub-standard Steele information on grounds that Obama (orally) said to include "everything". But "everything" would also include Danchenko backstory.

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