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Saudi Arabia backed by the UAE planned to invade Qatar last summer. Rex Tillerson's efforts to stop it may have cost him his job, by @AlexEmmons cc
@annmarlowe interc.pt/2LF3oRw
@AlexEmmons @annmarlowe Kushner was personally handling much of the diplomacy with the Gulf states & the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the UAE were choosing to go through him instead of the U.S. defense or intelligence establishments
theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex…
And the NYT reported that GOP operative Elliott Broidy and George Nader, (ex-consultant for Blackwater who attended Seychelles meeting w/Erik Prince and UAE’s MBZ) both pushed to fire Tillerson nytimes.com/2018/03/21/us/…
More in this article on the many times the UAE (often with Saudi Arabia) appears with Erik Prince, Cambridge Analytica and many parts of the Trump-Russia story medium.com/@wsiegelman/fr…
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Both Paul Manafort & Rick Gates gave data to Konstantin Kilimnik in the spring 2016 - some data was developed by a private polling firm working for the campaign - Manafort asked Gates to tell Kilimnik to pass the data to Oleg Deripaska, HT @painter_nancy nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/…
Manafort and Gates passed polling data to Kilimnik to be sent to Putin ally Oleg Deripaska

Kilimnik also worked with Sam Patten who consulted for Cambridge Analytica

One of the services provided by Cambridge Analytica was polling
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Manafort may have shared US campaign polling data w/Kilimnik

Manafort filing is not properly redacted & one section mentions:

"the Government’s allegation that Mr. Manafort lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign."
Kilimnik not only worked with Manafort, he also formed a company in 2015 with Sam Patten, who was a contractor for Cambridge Analytica

There's no evidence Kilimnik worked with Cambridge Analytica, but why would Kilimnik review US election polling data?...
Another redacted section of the filing notes "Manafort “conceded” that he discussed or may have discussed a Ukraine peace plan with Mr. Kilimnik on more than one occasion"
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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No news yet, but we may soon learn more about the mystery Mueller case...
The Supreme Court ruled against the mystery company fighting subpoena in Mueller investigation that is identified as a foreign financial institution
DC Circuit's opinion affirming the contempt order in the mystery Mueller-related grand jury case against a foreign financial institution
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Daniel Greenfield writes that 'the actual story of Russia’s Facebook operations is that they targeted African-Americans and even Latinos more than conservatives.'

This is long, but worth reading.

By @Sultanknish (full text below) Enjoy this? RT it!
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'What if everything you knew about Russian election trolling was a lie?

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That’s the problem faced by two Senate Intelligence Commission reports commissioned from two outside organizations ...
which struggle with the problem of reconciling the facts about Russian election trolling with upholding the Clinton campaign’s conspiracy theory about Trump and the Russians.'
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#Saudi feminist Loujain al-Hathloul, 29, was detained in May in unprecedented crackdown vs feminists. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aide Saud al-Qahtani, personally oversaw her interrogation, which incl waterboarding & threatened to rape & kill her google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.…
Of 18 detained activists, at least eight have been physically abused in custody, according to Saudi advisers, activists &others with knowledge of the prisoners’ treatment. One said security officials electrocuted her hands. “My fingers resembled barbecued meat, swollen and blue”
Glad to see some finally pay attention to misogyny in #Saudi Arabia - I call it gender apartheid. RIP Jamal Khashoggi. It should not be lost on us that it took the murder of a man for some to finally pay attention to women.
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#Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman,suspected to have ordered murder of journalist #JamalKashoggi, launched unprecedented crackdown vs women’s rights activists in May. Those activists have been tortured & one has tried suicide 3 times google.com/amp/s/www.wash… h/t @SherifaZuhur
Some of the activists (none of whom have been formally charged or given access to lawyers) have been subjected to psychological or physical abuse while in custody, including electric shocks, sexual harassment, sleep deprivation and beatings. #Saudi
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#Saudi Arabia says #Canada's statement on the arrest of activists in the Kingdom is an unacceptable interference in its internal affairs, expels the Canadian ambassador and freezes all future trade. bbc.in/2vs6crl
"In her first public response to Saudi Arabia's actions, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday: 'Let me be very clear ... Canada will always stand up for human rights in Canada and around the world, and women's rights are human rights'." aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/s…
Direct investment was already down in #Saudi Arabia after some of the recent disturbances; this spat with #Canada is unlikely to help. on.wsj.com/2OgITYl
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Wow: Saudi Arabia planned to invade Qatar last summer, then Rex Tillerson intervened. theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex…
This has been confirmed by British and American intelligence.
So, umm.
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🔥CORRUPTION🔥

THREAD: Elliott Broidy flooded the @GOP Congress & WH w/political cash to **buy access & influence** that he & George Nader allegedly **sold ILLEGALLY** to the crown princes of #SaudiArabia & UAE‼️🤬1/

#Corruption
#ComplicitGOP
#FARA

apnews.com/amp/a3521859cf…
Broidy & Nader pitched themselves to the crown princes as being able to pass the princes' MESSAGING straight to Trump’s ears.🤨

With NO lobbyist or #FARA registration‼️2/

#Corruption
#MuellerIsComing
Of course, convicted FELONS Broidy & Nader expected a BIGLY payoff for their treachery👉🏼>$1 billion in shady “consulting” contracts from #SaudiArabia & UAE in return for pushing anti-#Qatar policies to Trump & @GOP leaders in Congress.🤬 3/

#Corruption
#ComplicitGOP
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