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Suggestion for someone with interest and time to do it: Put a date against each event in @selectedwisdom's excellent compilation of CI warning signs. With those dates, we can better assess when 'critical mass' may have been reached for initiation of a formal CI investigation.
For example, how much was on the table by mid-Mar. '17, when Comey briefed Sens. Grassley, Feinstein, Warner & Schumer (and turned them 'ashen faced') ? Was there already a CI investigation by then ? If so, when did it begin (had to pre-date that mtg substantially).
My focus is what I think will become a key question: What did IC know, and when did they know it ? Is the NYT correct that the CI investigation was opened 'after Comey was fired' (May 9, 2017) ? I don't think so, and think it's a purposeful obfuscation of the true start date.
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@PhilippeReines right now on @chrislhayes, pointing out that Comey felt obligated to announce he was re-opening the Clinton email server investigation 10 days before the election, but *did not* feel obligated to tell Americans that "Donald Trump was up to his neck in Russians." +
Reines says Comey (and rest of IC, presumably) assumed Clinton wd win, and the dirt on Trump cd be dealt with later. But if they 'gave Clinton a pass' they'd be hung out to dry by disappointed GOP. Makes total sense. But life sometimes is strange. Trump won ! NOW WHAT SHD IC DO ?
Obviously, they couldn't stop collecting intelligence on the new POTUS, about whom they already had massive concerns, *but they didn't want it known that they were doing so.* Events have developed since then in such a way that the IC now feels able (indeed, compelled)
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If FBI only opened a formal CI investigation "after Comey firing" (5.9.17), what was it Comey told Grassley, Feinstein, Warner and Schumer in a secret briefing in March that turned them ashen faced ? Was there already a CI investig by then ?
If so, why this effort to push back to May the start date of the investigation ? My theory: there's an attempt to use the May 9-12 cascade of events (Comey fired, Lavrov/Kislyak in Oval and Holt interview) as the 'trigger' b/c it will obscure that there was an investigation
much earlier. The question that will eventually be asked is: "What did the IC know, and when did they know it ?" The nub of it will be whether the IC sat on damning facts and allowed the American ppl to vote in a suspected Russian asset/agent in Nov. '16.
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@harrygod Me too (need to study and reflect). On the surface, seems like it broadens the universe of collaborating parties (to include Ukrainian oligarchs, each no doubt with their own ties to Russia), while keeping the original focus on Putin/GRU. +
@harrygod Kilimnik flew to Moscow, on Deripaska's jet, immediately after dining w/ Manafort in NYC on evening of Aug. 2, 2016. Deripaska then immediately took the plane from Moscow to Norway, where he boarded a yacht and discussed the U.S. election w/ Russian Dep. PM Prikhodko. +
@harrygod Whatever Manafort's instructions to Kilimnik may have been re. the intended recipients of the Trump campaign data, it strains credulity to think that Deripaska wasn't immediately briefed on the Manafort/Kilimnik dinner +
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