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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
@rgoodlaw
Jun 20, 2019 • 3 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Timely reminder in Wednesday NYT by @charlie_savage on #IranWar:

"Attorney General William P. Barr harbors unusually broad views of a president’s power to unilaterally start even major wars on his own."

links to this earlier analysis by Savage on Barr: nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/… ½
Along the lines of Savage's analysis is this important analysis of Bill Barr's extreme theories of presidential power to take the nation to war (eg with #Iran) without Congress involved ...

by @bridgewriter and @StephenPomper

justsecurity.org/64179/bill-bar… 2/2
and @becingber!

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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Sep 3
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.

Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.

Read this expert analysis⤵️ Image
2/ The author of the expert analysis worked at the State Department under several administrations with these types of use of force issues as his portfolio.

justsecurity.org/119982/legal-i…
3/ The best line of argument for the administration might be that the law of armed conflict somehow applies.

But if so (and it doesn't), that means the US War Crimes Act applies too, including the prohibition on murder.

Finucane spells out that implication here: Image
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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Aug 24
Big 1: Everyone should be held to the same standard of accountability - regardless of party.

Big 2: Imperative to release all the Epstein files to get to the bottom of this.

3: Key points about Clinton-Maxwell timeline ... (see thread)

🧵1/
cnn.com/2025/08/24/pol…
2/ Most remarkable part of @KFILE report:

September 2013: Maxwell is "honored guest at the prestigious Clinton Global Initiative conference."

By then she was notorious for alleged involvement in grotesque sexual crimes with Epstein.

cnn.com/2025/08/24/pol…
@KFILE 3/ How notorious?

Several civil lawsuits had named Ghislaine Maxwell as a primary Epstein co-conspirator (starting in 2009)

Timeline I published this week.⤵️

justsecurity.org/119137/timelin…
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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Aug 20
1/ Powerful interview

Former top official of the National Guard Major Gen. Randy E. Manner

Listen to this excerpt of it.

- Our Guard is not trained for this
- "Negatively impacts military readiness"
- Being as "political props"
2 "This is ... changing the entire context of the way that the average citizens in these cities are going to start viewing ... our military...
We should not have military on our streets, in our American cities. It is absolutely the way that dictatorships run, not democracies."
3

Q: "Joint Task Force ... said that all service members deployed will get an initial briefing on the mission and operational environment, and that prepares them. Is that enough?

General Manner: "No, absolutely not. ... This is a very potentially dangerous situation."
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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Jul 29
1/ Important:

"Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007. ... That of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida."

So Trump didn't kick him out for many years after knowing Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from MAL in 2000.

🧵
2/ Here's the Miami Herald piece that @barryscoopking referenced:

"A footnote in the book says the authors were shown the club’s registry from more than a decade earlier and that Epstein in fact had been a member until October 2007."

via @KevinGHall
miamiherald.com/news/state/flo…
@barryscoopking @KevinGHall 3/ Here's from the book by then-Miami Herald journalists @Blaskey_S, @NickNehamas and @jayhweaver and Wall Street Journal's @ceostroff.

The Grifter's Club:

Excerpt⤵️ hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sarah-b…Image
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Oct 17, 2024
1/New important public resource

“Heat Map” of USA showing hometown origins of #January6th defendants

Shows:

Power of a President to catalyze political violence nationwide

Local and nationwide effects of a Trump presidential pardon of Jan 6 defendants
justsecurity.org/104036/heat-ma…
2/ Along with the Heat Map is essential analysis by leading expert @thomasjoscelyn.

He explains how the Proud Boys orchestrated January 6th attack and risks of resurgence – especially in the event of pardons that former President Trump has suggested.

justsecurity.org/103956/proud-b…
3. Joscelyn’s work also builds on this prior analysis in Just Security, which @Liz_Cheney spotlighted in her post below.

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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Oct 15, 2024
1/@jacklgoldsmith wrote a NY Times piece attacking special counsel Jack Smith.

@AWeissmann_ and I are refuting the baseless attack.

Compare:

Goldsmith 2020: Bill Barr has "enormous discretion" to ignore 60 day rule
Goldsmith 2024: "Crucial" for Garland to comply with the rule Image
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2/ On left:

Goldsmith piece, “Jack Smith Owes Us an Explanation”

(He thinks DOJ defied a 60-Day rule in recently filing a brief showing details of alleged Trump crimes, and demands explanation)

On right:

Goldsmith shows no awareness DOJ gave the explanation TWICE.Image
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3/ The DOJ explanation is solid.

Simply put, DOJ’s 60-Day Rule against taking actions before an election DOES NOT APPLY and apparently never has to a case after an indictment has been filed. . At that point, it is an open matter and in the hands of the court.
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