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In the past 36 hours we’ve seen new reporting on three separate Mueller threads: 1. Peter Smith hunt for stolen emails, 2. Alfa Bank server, 3. George Nader/Psy-Group. Reminder of how many pieces there are we have very little visibility into. nyti.ms/2E6xgmD?smid=n…
Nader remains the piece I understand the least yet want to understand the most.
And if you’re wondering if we’ll ever find out, a reminder that under the precedent Comey set for Clinton, all of the FBI 302s in the Russia investigation should be made public within two months of the probe ending, even if its right before a presidential election.
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Clever for Barr’s confirmation team to try to bury this right before the holidays, but it raises major questions about whether he should be allowed to oversee the Mueller probe. wsj.com/articles/trump…
It is true, as “people familiar with the matter” say, that former officials sometimes provide unsolicited thoughts to DOJ. But 20-page memos that are also sent to counsel for the subject of an investigation? That is not common, and it doesn’t happen by accident.
Barr’s views on executive power have long been at the extreme end of the spectrum. But for him to have argued the merits of this specific case - on Trump’s behalf, to Rosenstein, with Trump’s counsel (and presumably Trump) knowing he did it - means he needs to pledge to recuse.
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Lock her up.
Honestly, I don’t have any ethical issue with a government official using personal email for occasional business. But if you entered government after the 2016 campaign and were doing it, you are guilty of criminal stupidity.
The most surprising thing I learned in the Post story about Ivanka is that she has a chief of staff. Why?
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Watching the way D's are approaching the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh, & it feels like they are making some of the same mistakes they made during the Clinton email investigation & as Rosenstein has ceded ground to the WH at various times in the Russia probe.
Comes back to the asymmetric way the two parties treat DOJ/FBI, where the GOP continuously pressures it to do inappropriate things while D's just ask it to follow the normal process. Guess which one the FBI responds to?
Consider who is in charge of the FBI investigation: Chris Wray, who (like Kavanaugh) was in the Federalist Society at Yale and who served with him in the Bush admin - in jobs where they would've worked closely together.
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(THREAD) Three things: #Mueller has convened a grand jury in DC today; Cohen has shown up in DC; and there is a lot of talk about an imminent Roger Stone and/or Jerome Corsi indictment. 1/
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🔥🔥🔥 CONJECTURE 🔥🔥🔥

THREAD/1 Okay, so I’ve been thinking a lot about the two big stories that dropped this week about the Alfa Bank comms and Rick Gates’ involvement in the Psy-Group proposals, and I’ve made a connection that I think is pretty wild. Get ready for beans:
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Was There a Connection Between a Russian Alfa Bank and the Trump Campaign? newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
A politically-diverse team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic between Alfa Bank & Trump Org in search of answers.

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