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Glenn Greenwald
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As the debut winner with Amy Goodman in 2008 of the IF Stone Izzy Award for Independent Journalism, awarded by Ithaca College, I'm so thrilled that one of this year's winner is @aaronjmate: for his brave, intrepid & smart Russiagate skepticism. Congrats! ithaca.edu/news/izzy-awar…
Despite having little institutional protection, Aaron was subjected to heaps of scorn & marginalization for his Russia skepticism but- like a real journalist- resisted the group think & was vindicated. Congrats also to the other winners: @earthisland, @GRITlaura & @DavidLindorff.
Here was the judge panel's rationale for why @aaronjmate was so deserving of the 2019 Izzy Award for his skeptical reporting on Russiagate (past winners also include @jeremyscahill, @lhfang, @NaomiAKlein, @AriBerman, @fastlerner, @davidsirota, @sharifkouddous & @nickturse:
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Just be rational & ponder this: even MSNBC - MSNBC! - says that the unknown, anonymous objecters to the Barr Letter themselves acknowledge that Mueller "found no coordination or criminal conspiracy" with Russia. That some are citing this as *vindication* shows the desperation:
In case 3 different articles weren't enough for you - from NYT, WPost & NBC - listen to @nytmike state definitively on Morning Joe to @WillieGeist that the anonymous objecters are NOT disputing Barr's announcement that Mueller found "no conspiracy": only the obstruction issue:
Thus: for anyone minimally rational - which excludes those fixated on the Trump/Russia conspiracy for 3 years - yesterday's anonymous reports *further bolster* Barr's report that Mueller found *no evidence of Trump/Russia conspiracy,* since not even these sources object to that.
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Glenn Greenwald
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In 2011, the House voted *against* authorizing a US role in the war in Libya but Obama defied it & did it anyway bbc.com/news/world-us-… - if Trump vetoes this bill barring US involvement in the war in Yemen, it's a great opportunity to reimpose war-making powers on the President
The US-supported war in Yemen is one of the worst atrocities in the last two decades. It's a huge stain on Obama & Trump's legacy. The bill passed today by the House to end US involvement in the war in Yemen is of historic importance: both for war powers & humanitarianism.
I mean: "a great opportunity to reimpose *limits* on the war-making powers of the President." See here: washingtonpost.com/posteverything…
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Glenn Greenwald
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Trump/Russia conspiracists are like zombies: the dream can't die. Their new hope is a) anonymously sourced, b) bereft of even one specific, c) irrelevant to *conspiracy* as opposed to obstruction & d) unrelated to the fact that Mueller indicted *zero* Americans for conspiracy:
The Mueller Report will be released, as it should be. Mueller is working with Barr on redactions. But nothing in the Report can or will possibly change the fatal fact that no Americans were charged for election-conspiring with Russia, the core claim of the narrative. And:
Similar to NYT report, WPost suggests that whatever unnamed irritations unspecified numbers of the Mueller team have about what Barr did or didn't disclose, it relates to the question of whether Trump obstructed the investigation, *not whether he colluded washingtonpost.com/world/national…
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