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"If I were still an active CIA officer at the senior leadership level, I would seriously have to consider resigning ...."

"#HelsinkiSummit: A Time for Choosing"
By Rolf Mowatt-Larssen (@BelferCenter)

justsecurity.org/59497/rolf-mow…
Former senior CIA officer: "This is a time for choosing. Government officials, senior and junior alike, take an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States, not to obey any single President...."
"...The calculus of whether to resign or stay must be based on whether one is able to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States from within or from without. Serving the interests of this president is not serving the country."
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A deeeep dive:

"Major Takeaways from #MichaelCohen's Plea on Trump Moscow Project"

By @K8brannen and @rgoodlaw

with quotes from Just Security experts @normative @AndyMcCanse @lrozen @alexgwhiting @renato_mariotti
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Readers may be especially interested in the section titled:

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which connects revelations in the Cohen guilty plea to great reporting by other journalists and analysts

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If Cohen is cooperating like this on Russia investigation, imagine what he may provide prosecutors in campaign finance (hush money) investigation.

Brannen and Goodman's analysis of Cohen's plea also refers to this earlier piece by @ThePaulSRyan:

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.@BethVanSchaack is providing a three-part series on recent developments in international criminal law.

Part I looks at key moments in the past year and events on the horizon involving the International Criminal Court. justsecurity.org/60597/internat…
Part II of the series focuses on the ad hoc international and hybrid tribunals, like those used in Cambodia and Sierra Leone. justsecurity.org/60615/internat…
Stay tuned for Part III, which will survey some domestic proceedings involving international criminal law.
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Exclusive: U.N. Human Rights Experts Directly Engage With Facebook on "Overly Broad" Definitions in Regulating Terrorist Content

UN expert sends letter, two sides meet. So, how was the meeting?
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UN Rapporteur @NiAolainF:

“I wish to emphasize the importance of ensuring that any relevant definitions adopted and employed by #Facebook are compatible with standards set by international law, including international #humanrights law and international humanitarian law.”
UN Rapporteur @davidakaye:

“It undermines the ability of #Facebook to push back against the efforts of governments to impose ever broader definitions of terrorism…when the standard is not tied closely to standards in #humanrights law and other international instruments.”
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I am extremely grumpy this morning so figured I would do some tweeting about staff diversity on presidential campaigns and potential senior staff in 2020. (What could go wrong?) (1/many)
The idea that presidential campaigns will become diverse on their own is ridiculous. 2020 races reflect the larger world in which they live and thus are not without racism, prejudice, unconscious bais, and discrimination.
A diverse campaign happens because the candidate and campaign manager make clear to senior staff who then build that commitment at every level of an org. Requires relentless pursuit of a goal of diversity over years of time and a truly ridiculous hiring pace.
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#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!
The Evidence Obtained Outside Cameras will not show any evidence of ‘tempering’ but other than license plates of dozens of diplomatic cars (Many with tinted windows-large trunks) with related time stamp, drivers Info, model/year: Nothing.
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Thread: More on Revoking John Brennan’s Security Clearance

1. The revocation of former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearances by @POTUS last week has been all the rage in the legacy media and Uniparty resistance.
2. ADM McRaven (former USSOCOM) was one of the first to express his “outrage,” as we previously exposed here:
3. Then, up jumped a bunch of former CIA directors and all of Obama’s former deputy CIA directors to pile on and complain how dastardly @POTUS treated poor, innocent John Brennan. We examined their crocodile tears here:
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💣BOOM💣

@GOP Congressman/fmr CIA Will @HurdOnTheHill: “Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the CIA, I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people. I never thought I would see the day when an American @POTUS would be one of them.”
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👇🏼EXACTLY👇🏼

“As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks & balances on the executive branch, I believe that lawmakers must *fulfill our oversight duty* (and) keep the American people informed of the current DANGER.”🔥
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#Putin starts with rare words in English to "Donald": Ok, Shall we start? Then says a new era of cooperation is at hand. "There's no reason US-Russia relations should be complicated. On 'so-called' interference, the Russian state has never interfered in US election & never will"
Trump just slammed "obstructive" Democrats and the press in prepared remarks at press conference with Putin at #HelsinkiSummit
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Trump: Yes, I blame both countries. Mueller probe is ridiculous. There was no collusion. There was nobody to collude w.

So Trump uses false equivalence to let Russia off the hook for attacking his own country😡
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