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THREAD: A quick primer to my latest @WIRED piece, five reasons to optimistic that Matt Whitaker isn't going to shut down the Mueller probe (and one reason to be *very* pessimistic): wired.com/story/mueller-…
Optimism #1: Mueller's investigation is very far long. There's plenty of reasons to think we're close to the denouement. wired.com/story/mueller-…
Optimism #2: It's not like the Session firing caught Mueller off-guard. He's had plenty of time to prepare a Doomsday plan. wired.com/story/mueller-…
Optimism #3: The "Mueller probe" is increasingly not tied to Mueller. There are investigative pieces scattered all across DOJ and it would be enormously difficult to stall them all. wired.com/story/mueller-…
Optimism #4: The Justice Department runs on norms—and so far Whitaker is following them. wired.com/story/mueller-…
Optimism #5: Congress has leverage—and the Democrats plan to restart the oversight process that the GOP abdicated over the last two years. wired.com/story/mueller-…
And then the one big honking reason to be pessimistic: There’s no clear justification for Whitaker’s appointment *other* than shutting down Mueller’s probe. wired.com/story/mueller-…
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THREAD: I counted up over the weekend the various *distinct* investigations targeting Donald Trump right now. There are at least *17* of them. Here are my five top observations: ... wired.com/story/mueller-…
1) When you look at all of them together, we're probably thinking of this wrong—it's not a Russia probe, it's a financial investigation. Russia's only a part of it—and the full picture includes multiple countries trying to buy influence from Trump. ... wired.com/story/mueller-…
2) While Trump said he’d see investigations into his business dealings as crossing a “red line,” it appears that Trump himself obliterated that line, intermingling his business and campaign such that prosecutors can't untangle one without the other. ... wired.com/story/mueller-…
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THREAD: So CNN’s @JohnBerman said the other day the rapid pace of Mueller revelations makes it seem like we’re in the midst of the “12 days of Mueller.” I wondered if that was true, so I investigated. Here’s what I found: ....
On the first day of Mueller, the special counsel gave to us, one London lawyer guilty; ....
On the second day of Mueller, the special counsel gave to us, two crimes mentioning “Individual-1”; ....
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THREAD: Today is the 50th anniversary of the battle of Mutter's Ridge, where Marine 2nd Lt. Robert Mueller would receive the Bronze Star with Valor for his actions in combat. I told the story of Mueller's time at war earlier this year in WIRED: ... wired.com/story/robert-m…
1) It was less than a month into Mueller's tour in Vietnam, fighting with a maneuver battalion in Quang Tri Province along the DMZ, the home of some of the most intense combat the US would face in the entire Vietnam war.... wired.com/story/robert-m…
2) Mueller volunteered for the Marines after Princeton; at first medically unfit, he spent a year rehabbing injured knees before he entered OCS, then went onto Army Ranger School—a rare honor for a Marine—then Army Jump School .... wired.com/story/robert-m…
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*JEFF SESSIONS HAS RESIGNED AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
Matt Whitaker to be acting AG
Whitaker -- a Mueller critic -- will now have the authority to constrain or shut down the Mueller probe. SCHUMER and NADLER warning
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#mueller #russiagate
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This article has provoked a lot of commentary today. Most of the commentary from the the left has been alarmist, though some (like @SethAbramson) have been dismissive. I don’t think either response is appropriate. 1/16
There was every reason to expect that Mueller would go into action again shortly after the election; we didn’t need this article to know that. 2/16
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THREAD (From John Califra on FB) “AND STILL - THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE DAY. .......1. Deutsche Bank, was found to be a criminal organization - acting as an active instrument for the laundering of 100s of billions for Russian oligarchs and criminals.
2. Most of this money laundering was effected through the bank's Real Estate divisions. 3. Retiring "Justice," Anthony Kennedy's son, Justin, was Head of Global Real Estate for Deutsche Bank during exactly the time its illegal activities for Russians were in highest gear.
4. Donald Trump was Justin Kennedy's client while he was Head of Global Real Estate at Deutsche Bank - at the very time it was engaged in money laundering for Russians.
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The Dutch didn't just get the whole hack on video, they got personal information on 420,000+ Hansa users.

When I say you can track #cryptocurrency - you can *literally* search your evidence for the number string of a #bitcoin wallet.

You can *Google* it.
wired.com/story/hansa-du…
Even if you're more cautious now, it's easy to track past transactions.

But even local cops can search a computers files for numerical strings of interest.

Now ask yourself what the @FBI & @NSAGov can do.
wired.com/story/bitcoin-…
When @NeonaziWallets can run an automated feed showing the daily bitcoin activities of white supremacists, imagine what the Federal law enforcement & counterintelligence who have known about this for at least almost 6 months could do with their data.
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The Dutch Hansa takeover.
"They obtained at least some data on 420,000 users, including at least 10,000 home addresses, which they've turned over to Europol to be distributed to other police agencies..."

#Cryptocurrency map.

@ericgarland @patribotics
"We want people to be aware," says Ras. "We have the data. It's here, and it's not going away."
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"Researchers have used the blockchain to tie years-old Silk Road bitcoin transactions to current, public accounts."
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