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.@Rob_Malley , head of the International Crisis Group & a former senior Obama admin official, joined me on @TheRealNews to discuss US policies in the Middle East, from Obama to Trump. Here is part one, on Iran: (therealnews.com/stories/how-wi…) Grateful to Rob for his time and insight.
Part 2 with ex-Obama official & @CrisisGroup CEO @Rob_Malley on why the Obama admin chose to support the Saudi attack on Yemen and how Trump has continued it: therealnews.com/stories/amid-c…
Part 3: Once the US became part of the proxy war against Assad in Syria, @Rob_Malley tells me, "we were part of what fueled the conflict rather than stopped it." therealnews.com/stories/ex-oba…
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1/ A lot of excitement today that Mueller alleges Manafort lied about sharing polling data w/ his fixer in Ukraine, Konstantin Kilimnik (hereafter KK), a Russian national. A few thoughts:
2/ According to MSNBC analyst & Russiagate devotee Clint Watts: “This is the closest thing we have seen to collusion.” Wow, this must be big then! nyti.ms/2H0YLzj?smid=n…
3/ Wait, here’s one prob. Per NYT, “most of the data” — polling data that Manafort shares w/ his Russian associate — “was public.” And the rest was still just - polling data. And it was shared in the spring of 2016 — the earliest possible stages of Trump vs. Clinton campaign. 😱
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My new piece on what the recent Senate studies about Russian social media posts actually show: a juvenile, microscopic operation massively over-hyped by political elites, pundits, & "experts" with sketchy agendas & contemptuous views of average voters:
thenation.com/article/russia…
Some points to stress: 1) it's tough to suggest that Russian clickbait helped decide the 2016 election when even the Senate authors acknowledge that just "11% of the total content" from Russian trolls "was related to the election", & their posts "minimally about the candidates."
2) the widespread claim that Russian trolls reached 126M on Facebook is in fact a spin on Facebook's own "estimate":
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1/ What happened to Reality Winner is an injustice. But @theIntercept compounds it & is journalistically derelict by continuing to a) avoid owning up to its own role & b) pretend she exposed a Russian intel operation, when they are fully aware she didn’t. theintercept.com/2018/12/23/rea…
2) re: a), here’s Glenn Greenwald, per the New Yorker:

“The site ‘fucked up,’ Greenwald said. He added that, if he didn’t work there, he might be wondering aloud why nobody was fired.”

newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
3) The same accountability we’ve all sought from the Guardian over the Manafort-Assange story should also be sought over TI’s Russian vote hacking story. They’re not perfectly analogous, but what GG says here about the Guardian story also applies to TI: theintercept.com/amp/it-is-poss…
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The annual Doha Forum has commenced. Let's see what's on the agenda for our Qatari "allies" (thread)
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I'm going to let you in on a little secret...

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Anyone ever do any digging into "The Save the Children Alliance" by any chance?

Found some interesting links today...
Lots of smoke...

Clintons
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This is going to take me a while to map out.

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President and Mrs. Trump are dining at the Trump Hotel DC right now.
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