1. I think this story is just touching on the what the intelligence committee can and may do to successfully end Trump's presidency. First, this article addresses the Judiciary Committee working with the House Intelligence Committee to deal with classified materials related to
2. the Mueller grand jury. The first thing to note is that the Mueller Report lacks any notation that indicates it contains classified redacted information. Moreover a grand jury made up of ordinary citizens has a very difficult time dealing with classified information.
3. The IC is concerned with protecting the sources and methods and the contents of intercepted communications may not be as critical to keep secret but the adversary who is under surveillance may get an idea that the are being intercepted when the intercept is released.
4. So the DOJ uses agents to give summary testimony before the grand jury regarding what is on the intercept. I'm almost 100% that if Trump's national security adviser a former three-star intelligence general and head of the DIA was clueless that Trump was clueless too.
5. I reported starting in May 2016 that FISA authorities will get Trump. I can foresee a summary that is released publicly for the trial with the members of the Senate played the intercepts in a SCIF. Because Congress has less restriction than other government employees you can
6. almost bet it will leak. And Trump conspiring with the Russians will be exposed. But why didn't Mueller report on this? You might remember that his report details how the FBI Counter Intelligence investigators were embedded in the Mueller team but did not report to him.
7. They took notes and reported to their team. Now that Coats is gone and the conduct of the ODNI is in doubt I expect all that evidence is already secured. Waiting for the grand jury material that will contain the less secret summaries.
8. There's one thing that needs to be done before all this kicks off. #MoscowMitch must be completely exposed and neutralized.
How's the Deripaska deal coming Mitch?😎
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1. Oral argument today made me recall how curious the question presented was and how even the Court seemed to acknowledge that they were not addressing it. I missed bits and one bit I missed I just heard on MSNBC was Alito saying he didn't want to discuss the facts of the case.
2. That was astounding thing to hear an appellate judge say: facts of the case don't matter. My impression when it was over was that the liberals were not speaking as they might if the six conservatives were all onboard with the Trump dictatorship. Alito and Thomas sounded angry.
3. Coney Barrett was hard to read but I didn't sense that she bought the absolute immunity idiocy. I agree with @JoyceWhiteVance Gorsuch sounded like sour grapes from corrupt element of 1512(c). I missed parts but Roberts seemed more like moderator. Like he knew
1. Trying to imagine what would be so urgent as to cause Putin to rush to the Kremlin on Sunday night. A quick survey of Russian press and I found one report that confirmed something that I had thought might happen now that the aid money and weapons are certain to come in days.
2. Ukraine had to be holding a cache of weapons for a massive Russian offensive. Things like ATACMS, HIMARS, 155 mm smart munitions, Javelins & Stingers. They would be limiting offensive operations and focused waiting to hold the line from and offensive. I think they went all in.
2. I found this report buried in Tass. that sounds like a report of an army that's facing a sudden broad-front offensive. "Units of Russia’s Battlegroup West moved to more advantageous positions in the past day, tass.com/defense/1778291
1. In February the KRG PM visited DC. No official meeting with @POTUS @Joebiden. At the time I wondered if the Barzani family relationship with Erdogan might have them on the outs with DC.
2. This cold shoulder contrasted with the recent meeting between the US President and the Iraqi PM.
Erdogan arrives in Erbil Monday at same time he's reported to have begun attack on Northern areas of Iraqi Kurdistan in violation of Iraqi sovereignty.
3. Erdogan is no longer hiding his affection for Islamist terrorists that was long suspected but now fully embraced by Erdogan. And Barzani connection to Erdogan can't be considered a positive factor in KRG's relationship with the Biden administration.
1. Random facts occasionally haunt me. A recent report that I think I heard on MSNBC said that Trump was not spending on a Michigan ground game. That struck me as so odd it lingered in my mind while I ponder to find some way to explain it.
2. Tonight on @11thHour I think I may have heard something that may explain what Trump is planning. If this pans out, the good news is that he thinks he's going to lose and is preparing for his next grift. On @SRuhle's hour there was discussion of Trump rallies and how they
3. have changed. He goes off script at the end of the rally that turns into a what was describe as something similar to a religious gathering. My first thought was it was the antitheses of the kind of general election play that expands the voter base but then it hit me.
1. I find it unlikely that people like Scott Perry, who I think was part of a military coup plot, did not raise presidential immunity in the grand jury. I've watched several dockets in the DC Cir and I think at least one or two have made it to SCOTUS based on the
2. timing of sealed filings in the DC record. Could there already be a full discussion of the POTUS immunity in a sealed opinion? SCOTUS would all be aware of the case that might explain the liberals remaining quiet while the court as a whole moved the case slowly to conclusion
3. at the end of the term. They may want to announce it and get out of town fast when the MAGA horde goes off its rocker. I'm starting to think that the case that may be lurking is the kidnapping and/or assassination of Mike Pence. Pence made his tepid denouncement of Trump on
1.Since 2014, I have consistently expressed my belief that Russia and ISIS (nka Daesh) were connected. Today, Daesh thrives in an area of Syria that is protected from US strikes due to a US deconfliction agreement with Russia.
2. Let's watch and see if Russia does anything to disturb Daesh in this area. The reporting on the attack and the fact that AMAQ is reporting in the manner it has not previously reported is consistent with my view that Russia and Daesh are at least tacitly affiliated.
3. Putin's clumsy attempt to claim this as a Ukrainian operation despite the fact that the US raised the alarm is consistent with this conclusion. It also may evidence that Putin is becoming increasingly desperate and turning to dangerous poorly planned operations to gain