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THREAD: We're going to learn far, far more about the state of the Russia-Mueller investigation by the end of tomorrow. I took a look for @WIRED about the most most intriguing unanswered questions. Here they are...: wired.com/story/robert-m…
1) Is Matt Whitaker overseeing the Russia probe—and is his appointment as attorney general even legal? It's incredible we don't know whether the acting attorney general is actually constitutional or whether he's supervising Mueller. wired.com/story/robert-m…
2) Is Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross involved in any of this? He's been involved in a ton of sketchy financial dealings with Russia, including dealings with sanctioned individuals. wired.com/story/robert-m…
3) How closely related is the investigation of the 2016 election to the Trump Organization’s financial scandals? We don't know Trump's business partners, so we don't know whether they're tied to this case. wired.com/story/robert-m…
4) How did Trump himself, and the Trump family, react to Cohen’s updates on various schemes? Cohen's plea agreements are notably silent on what was said in key conversations. wired.com/story/robert-m…
5) What has Felix Sater told Mueller? The man known as “Individual 2” in the Cohen agreement, real estate developer and peripheral Trump figure Felix Sater, possesses perhaps the most intriguing background of anyone wrapped up in the scandal. wired.com/story/robert-m…
6) What has George Nader told Mueller? Perhaps the biggest part of the Trump puzzle that's remained out-of-view is the role of would-be Middle Eastern power broker George Nader, who, like Sater, apparently has been cooperating for some time with Mueller.wired.com/story/robert-m…
7) What happens to Cozy Bear? There were two attacks on the DNC in 2016. One was indicted (the GRU), one wasn't (the FSB). If anything, the US probably knows more about the FSB "Cozy Bear" hack. wired.com/story/robert-m…
8) Who is the Atlanta traveler? Mueller indicted two of the three Internet Research Agency operators who traveled to the US in 2016. The third goes unnamed—but Mueller knows who is he. Does Mueller have a cooperator INSIDE the Internet Research Agency? wired.com/story/robert-m…
9) Why was Trump’s team so concerned about the transition documents? What did Mueller’s team know that the president’s lawyers had hoped to keep out of their hands? wired.com/story/robert-m…
10) How much more of the Steele Dossier is true? It's proving more true than not—so far. wired.com/story/robert-m…
11) Is it a coincidence that the IRA scheduled a “Down with Hillary” rally in New York, weeks in advance, for the day after WikiLeaks dumped the DNC emails? Mueller's filings are littered with such "coincidental" dates. wired.com/story/robert-m…
12) Why *isn’t* Mueller prosecuting Maria Butina and Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova? Two key Russia cases this year originated from other Justice Department offices. wired.com/story/robert-m…
13) Why *is* Mueller prosecuting Michael Cohen's lies to Congress? He's opening up a new legal avenue—presumably part of a larger strategy we haven't seen yet. wired.com/story/robert-m…
14) Lastly, not insignificantly, did Paul Manafort actually meet Julian Assange? The Guardian's bombshell report hasn't been backed up yet. wired.com/story/robert-m…
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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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Read the DOJ documents against Maria Butina and you will understand that LOTS of Republicans are going down--soon.
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#MuellerTime
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