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THREAD: Friday's blockbuster Mueller indictment appears to establish the four corners of a conspiracy. In my new analysis for @WIRED, I walk through at least nine areas where we should expect to see further movement by the special counsel: wired.com/story/what-rob…
1. How do Erik Prince, the Seychelles, and the inauguration fit in? wired.com/story/what-rob…
2. How do the UAE, Qatar, and Jared Kushner fit in? wired.com/story/what-rob…
3. What role did Sergey Kislyak, the GOP convention, and the finances of the Russian Embassy play? wired.com/story/what-rob…
4. How do Roger Stone, Wikileaks, and other Americans and Brits fit into the GRU indictment? wired.com/story/what-rob…
5. What did Mueller learn from George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, and Michael Flynn? (This to me, is one of the biggest questions: We haven't seen any public sign of what all three men traded for leniency in their own charges.) wired.com/story/what-rob…
6. What’s in those 291,000 Michael Cohen documents? wired.com/story/what-rob…
7. What’s up with that Trump Tower meeting? The email to Donald Trump Jr. from Rob Goldstone that kicked off the now infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 has always appeared as if it were picking up on a previous conversation. wired.com/story/what-rob…
8. How relevant is Cambridge Analytica and was there a coordinated effort by the Trump campaign or associates to gather intelligence or untoward opposition research on Hillary Clinton? wired.com/story/what-rob…
9. Do people like Carter Page and Felix Sater matter? wired.com/story/what-rob…
10. These 9 areas are hardly encyclopedic—still questions too about the role of the FSB/Cozy Bear and loose ends from previous indictments, like DC superlobbyists Tony Podesta & Vin Weber. And of course the Moscow Ritz. wired.com/story/what-rob…
11. Potentially most consequentially of all, these nine questions are separate from one of the central questions of the Mueller probe: Is Bob Mueller done with Paul Manafort? wired.com/story/what-rob…
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THREAD: I counted up over the weekend the various *distinct* investigations targeting Donald Trump right now. There are at least *17* of them. Here are my five top observations: ... wired.com/story/mueller-…
1) When you look at all of them together, we're probably thinking of this wrong—it's not a Russia probe, it's a financial investigation. Russia's only a part of it—and the full picture includes multiple countries trying to buy influence from Trump. ... wired.com/story/mueller-…
2) While Trump said he’d see investigations into his business dealings as crossing a “red line,” it appears that Trump himself obliterated that line, intermingling his business and campaign such that prosecutors can't untangle one without the other. ... wired.com/story/mueller-…
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THREAD: So CNN’s @JohnBerman said the other day the rapid pace of Mueller revelations makes it seem like we’re in the midst of the “12 days of Mueller.” I wondered if that was true, so I investigated. Here’s what I found: ....
On the first day of Mueller, the special counsel gave to us, one London lawyer guilty; ....
On the second day of Mueller, the special counsel gave to us, two crimes mentioning “Individual-1”; ....
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THREAD: Today is the 50th anniversary of the battle of Mutter's Ridge, where Marine 2nd Lt. Robert Mueller would receive the Bronze Star with Valor for his actions in combat. I told the story of Mueller's time at war earlier this year in WIRED: ... wired.com/story/robert-m…
1) It was less than a month into Mueller's tour in Vietnam, fighting with a maneuver battalion in Quang Tri Province along the DMZ, the home of some of the most intense combat the US would face in the entire Vietnam war.... wired.com/story/robert-m…
2) Mueller volunteered for the Marines after Princeton; at first medically unfit, he spent a year rehabbing injured knees before he entered OCS, then went onto Army Ranger School—a rare honor for a Marine—then Army Jump School .... wired.com/story/robert-m…
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Happy 74th Birthday Robert Swan Mueller III

▪Purple heart
▪Combat V, Heroism
▪Gallantry Cross
▪Combat Action Ribbon
▪Commendation medals (2)
▪Shot by AK-47 in Vietnam, kept fighting badly wounded directing fire of his platoon, instrumental in defeating N. Vietnamese Army
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•1966, underwent Military physical at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
•Married
•Got Master degree Intl Relations
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💩tRump got Deferment for heel spurs💩
Month in, Mueller lead platoon through hellish, jungle assault, earned his Marines respect, awarded Bronze Star(bravery) his troops say was well-earned, along with their respect
"Min shit hit the fan, he's there, performed remarkably
Lots of guys would walk through walls for him"
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THREAD on Mueller & Guccifer2.0

1/ Mueller has gone on a Phishing trip, and like most anglers likes to boast about the size of the big one. But there's no evidence of the catch, not even how he reeled them in. We are expected to take his word that "It was *this* big".
2/ I have a *long* standing project in the works looking at Guccifer2.0's documents which is proving to be more than interesting. It should settle it once and for all.

But in the meantime I'd like to look at a few aspects of the new indictment that do not compute.
3/ What Mueller appears to have done is to pick some names that he claims are hackers from "Unit 26165" and "Unit 74455" and claim they hacked the DNC & DCCC. We have no way of knowing if they did, he presents no evidence of *how* they claim to *know* it was these people.
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THREAD: here’s a breakdown of the JUICY details in the sentencing memo filed by lawyers for Alex van der Zwaan (“v.d.Swamp”), the son-in-law of #Russian🇷🇺oligarch, German Khan (AlfaGroup/AlfaBank co-founder)‼️1/

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Link to court document👉🏼courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
In this thread, we will focus on what v.d.Swamp said about his case, specifically what info he tried to COVER UP.🤨

For details on the CRIMES that convicted felon v.d.Swamp committed, see👇🏼this thread👇🏼on Mueller’s sentencing memo.😎 2/

Of course, van der Zwaan’s attorneys try to spin a sob story about how v.d.Swamp’s “world has collapsed” and “his career has been destroyed.”🙄

Well, yeah. That’s what happens when you LIE to the Feds and DESTROY EVIDENCE‼️3/
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MEMBERS OF TEAM #MUELLER
1.Zainab Ahmed
Ahmed is an expert in prosecuting terrorism and organized crime, Zainab Ahmad previously served as an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She joined #TeamMueller in the summer of 2017.
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