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The FBI is reportedly investigating whether the President is a Russian spy.
On the other hand, Bleemer and Gorpman have been cleared.
Told you they’d been cleared. clickhole.com/preview/legal-…
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One way of looking at it.
Another is that *this* happened after a massive 15y expansion of US surveillance and security powers, which utterly failed to stop it. And asking the people to sacrifice more of their privacy and liberty after a security state failure is the oldest of authoritarian impulses.
It may be that FBI didn’t have the statutory tools to investigate Trump-Russia effectively, but that’s hardly established by the evidence we have. What we read in yesterday’s reports is they lacked the determination to even open an investigation into Trump (until Comey’s firing).
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In the last two days stories have run in the NYT and WaPo that the sitting president is under FBI counterintelligence investigation for working on behalf of Russia and that he has taken effective steps to prevent the US govt from having a record of his communications with Putin.
So far as I have seen, the White House has not yet denied that Trump worked on behalf of Russia or that he broke with tradition to prevent dissemination of his conversations with Putin within the US govt. WH officials are quoted making other statements in both articles.
It’s all a bit bizarre because, as everyone knows by now, they typically have no scruples about lying.
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For my sins, I was listening to a slate podcast today and I heard David Plotz ask:

“There’s nothing that we’ve heard that draws in the President ... there’s not an implication that Manafort and the president are acting in concert here, is there?”
Plotz was asking, ofc, about Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort sharing poll data with suspected GRU agent Konstantin Kilimnik. And Emily Bazelon answered “no” — there’s nothing to tie the president to his campaign manager sharing his campaign’s data with a Russian cut-out.
And after I finished banging my head against my desk, it occurred to me that it might be useful to go over a few concepts from agency law that could aid public discussion of this matter.
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I’ve run for Congress and worked on several of my husband’s campaigns. INTERNAL poll data are closely guarded.

Yet Trump’s highly experienced campaign chair (Manafort) willfully gave this VERY sensitive info to a #Russian🇷🇺spy (Kilimnik) with #GRU👉🏼hacked the #DNC.

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In emails to “former” #Russian🇷🇺spy Konstantin Kilimnik, Paul Manafort offered Oleg Deripaska “private briefings” on Trump’s campaign to “get whole.” Manafort’s Moscow contact “our friend V” now revealed as ANOTHER “former” #Russian🇷🇺spy Victor Boyarkin.🙄
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cc @thespybrief

During the 2016 campaign, Boyarkin says it fell to him to collect the $19 million debt that Manafort owed Deripaska. “I came down on him hard.”🤔

Manafort was broke, so instead of money, he offered “private briefings” to Deripaska via Boyarkin to “get whole.”🙄

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THREAD: @realDonaldTrump now *admits* that Don Jr sought Clinton dirt at his meeting w/the #Russian🇷🇺”lawyer”/spy & a “former” GRU military intel officer.

It’s a CRIME for a campaign to solicit or receive *anything* from a foreign national, let alone #Russian intelligence.🙄1/
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🔥WHOA🔥

Paul Erickson, the “boyfriend” of accused #Russian🇷🇺spy Maria Butina, recommended KT McFarland (Flynn’s “brain”) to serve as Deputy NSA.🤨

In Dec’16, MacFarland wrote that #Russia🇷🇺had “just thrown the USA election to him (@realDonaldTrump)”‼️

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Just *one day* after Obama imposed #sanctions on #Russia🇷🇺for hacking Democratic groups & state voting systems, McFarland ADMITTED IN WRITING that #Russia had THROWN THE ELECTION TO TRUMP‼️

#Treason
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*Mere hours* after Obama imposed #sanctions, McFarland wrote that Misha Flynn would be speaking to then #Russian🇷🇺ambassador Kislyak.🙄

#Collusion
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Fmr campaign chair (Manafort)👉🏼indicted for laundering Russian cash.

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THREAD: About a month after Trump launched his campaign, Rob Goldstone emailed that his #Russian🇷🇺pop-star client Emin Agalarov could arrange for a Trump-#Putin meet‼️

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“Maybe he would welcome a meeting w/ Putin,” Goldstone wrote.🤨 2
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