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Former FBI agents tell me limits on renewed Kavanaugh probe are highly questionable.

"grossly incomplete, unfair to the American public"

"could create more controversy than it resolves"

They lay out what a real probe *should* look like.

My new piece: washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
Interesting threads to tug on.

Former FBI agents tell me a real probe would look at floor plan in "Timmy's" house (mentioned on Kavanaugh's calendar), to match against Christine Ford's testimony.

Also suggest confirming Mark Judge's Safeway stint:

washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
Also, the former FBI agents say Kavanaugh's drinking absolutely is relevant.

A great quote from one:

If FBI does “the job they should and can do, I would be very surprised if they did not find very significant additional information about Kavanaugh.”

washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
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The migrant crisis reveals Trump's immigration strategy is failing, an important new NYT report demonstrates.

An anonymous Homeland Security official, and others at the border, confirm what's really happening.

Deterrence through cruelty is a failure:

nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/…
This is what I've been trying to argue. The right way to describe Trump's handling of immigration is as a massive failure. And the endless lies about this issue illustrate the wrongheaded and sometimes delusional worldview undergirding this failure.

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Here's another revelation from the NYT piece.

Administration insiders *know* that Trump's latest moves to get "tough" on the border will either fail or be unjustifiable to the American people.

But the WH keeps insisting they forge ahead anyway:

nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/…
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1) As Trump ends the year with a flood of lies about his wall, we need to recapture a core truth about this presidency.

Trump isn't “twisting the truth” or “stubbornly refusing to admit error.”

Trump is engaged in *disinformation.*

This is a different thing entirely.

*THREAD*
2) The WaPo and NYT fact checkers have now posted their year-end pieces. They are notable.

Via @glennkesslerwp, Trump has now passed the 7,500 mark in falsehoods and distortions as president:

washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/…
@GlennKesslerWP 3) Meanwhile, @YLindaQiu points to a pattern in which Trump regularly converts his falsehoods into “alternative facts” through “sheer force of repetition.”

This is the essence of the matter.

nytimes.com/2018/12/29/us/…
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Please focus on this, it's important.

Trump's threat to cut off aid to Northern Triangle countries is flatly contradicted by recommendations for addressing the migrant crisis from *both* the State Department *and* his own Customs and Border Patrol chief:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/…
Trump just said again that Central American countries are scamming us.

This is foundational to Trump's delusional worldview.

Trump called Mexicans rapists *and* he claimed Mexico "sends" them to us.

That's why he vowed to make Mexico pay for the wall.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/…
In the Trumpist mythology, other countries send us their outcasts and laugh about it. Only Trump is tough enough to end it.

Thus, his failure to make Mexico pay for the wall isn't a small, tangential broken promise.

Trump's vow to do this was a pillar of his entire worldview.
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The written confessions & corroboration of Mark Judge:

"I had blacked out ... I looked around quickly. I was fully clothed. I started to panic, terrified of what I could have done during the blackout. I could have murdered somebody.”
#Kavanaugh
@JeffFlake rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
“I tried to make out w a bridesmaid? Please tell me I didn’t hurt her.”
“No, in the shape you were in, I don’t think you could have if you had tried ... You made a serious lunge at her ... We finally just pulled you off and out of the bar" Mark Judge, Kavanaugh's accomplice
Kavanaugh was 37 & in the White House.

Kavanaugh email sent to friends in 2001, apologizing about becoming aggressive after a dice game that Kavanaugh says he can't recall.

Formally reminds friends of obligation of confidentiality, even from spouses

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Let's talk about the Putin/Alt-Right/GOP propaganda machine—the REAL Devil's Triangle—as it relates to Brett #Kavanaugh:

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1/ This cozy little messaging arrangement, which operates happily in the dark most of the time, is now being exposed because of the fatally flawed candidate Donald Trump has nominated to the Supreme Court.
2/ The problem with Kavanaugh is manifold: first, that he had six-figure credit card debts paid off by creditors whose identity we still don’t know; second, that he lied during his initial testimony...
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.@nycsouthpaw: When career prosecutor Rachel Mitchell asked #Kavanaugh about his drinking & the July 1 party where Judge and Smyth were in attendance – a key date that aligns with Ford's account – Republican senators then came to his rescue and benched her yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh…
Even Dersh smells a cover-up. #KavanaughHearings
American Bar Association: delay #Kavanaugh confirmation vote until an FBI investigation is completed into the sexual assault allegations against him #KavanaughHearings cnn.com/2018/09/27/pol…
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#Kavanaugh THREAD:

David Brock on NBC: “I used to know Brett Kavanaugh pretty well. And, when I think of Brett now, in the midst of his hearings for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, all I can think of is the old "Aesop's Fables" adage: (1)
"A man is known by the company he keeps." And that's why I want to tell any senator who cares about our democracy: Vote no. Twenty years ago, when I was a conservative movement stalwart, I got to know Brett Kavanaugh both professionally and personally. (2)
Brett actually makes a cameo appearance in my memoir of my time in the GOP, "Blinded By The Right." I describe him at a party full of zealous young conservatives gathered to watch President Bill Clinton's 1998 State of the Union address — (3)
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💣ItsTime💣

Comey Hints Mueller Probe is Wrapping Up: He May Be ‘In the Fourth Quarter’

Trump 'dossier' stuck in New York, didn't trigger Russia investigation, sources say

📌However, #SARSInquiries & #TeamTrumpSIGINT w/ RUs under surveillance did.😎

📌Truth exposes @GOP lies
🤦🏼‍♀️ROAR!💁🏾‍♀️

@GOP are determined to ram the confirmation of Kavanaugh amid fears it will come at a political YUGE cost.

This is an outright vicious assault on American women.

GOP urge: forgive the male sexual assaulter but viciously attack the female victim
🤦🏼‍♀️ROAR!💁🏾‍♀️

Tribelaw:”MD has no statute of limitations for rape or for assault, so it seems that both Kavanaugh & Mark Judge remain potentially criminally liable for what Dr. Blasey alleges they did to her in high school.

Nobody seems to be taking that into account”
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The #FBI is turning 110! Follow along as we remember 11 decades in 11 days. Today we will highlight some of our milestones and significant cases from the early 2000s. #FBI110
In 2000 the #FBI's first Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory opened in San Diego. Today RCFLs across the country provide law enforcement agencies with technical support and training in support of criminal investigations. #FBI110 rcfl.gov
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