Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. Less than two weeks after inauguration I feared for national security so I filed a FOIA request with @TheJusticeDept to find out who had my brother's old job. Today was the first time I recall @maddow or anyone on @msnbc mentioning Jody Hunt. That's who it was.

2. He was like Sally Yates. Career justice. So I slept better. When Hunt was replaced by Matt Whitaker it started sleepless nights. So when @maddow showed the list of FBI 302s the @HouseJudiciary was seeking I saw Jody Hunt on the list. I looked at the #MuellerReport and

3. found this interesting nugget from right after Sessions' recusal. IMO firing Comey was Sessions' idea. From page 275 of 448 of the PDF:

"The President said that the recusal was unfair and that it was interfering with his ability to govern and undermining his

4. authority with foreign leaders. 395 Sessions responded that he had had no choice but to recuse, and it was a mandatory rather than discretionary decision. 396 Hunt recalled that Sessions also stated at some point during the conversation that a new start at the FBI would be

5. appropriate and the President should consider replacing Corney as FBI director. 397 According to Sessions, when the meeting concluded, it was clear that the President was unhappy with Comey, but Sessions did not think the President had made the decision to terminate Comey.398"

6. So I read that as Session being the one who started the move to Comey termination. All to make the president happy in a case Session was recused from having any involvement.

A conspiracy by any other name would smell as sweet. 😎