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Jeff Yang
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The @nytimes is burying the lede in this tweet: It wasn’t generic “intelligence officials” who referred @POTUS to DOJ for criminal investigation—it was DAN COATS, *Trump’s handpicked Director of National Intel*—who was forced to resign days later. Coats must be called to testify.
The degree of smoke pouring out of the Trump Admin should have made it clear to the press that there was a raging inferno of corruption inside it long ago. But major media continues to softpedal blatantly obvious, if circumstantial, evidence of major crimes.
July 24 Mueller testifies before Congress
July 25 Trump has phone call with Ukraine’s Zelensky, pushing him to investigate Biden; DNI and Inspector General refer Trump to DOJ
July 28 Dan Coats forced to resign by Trump
July 31 Trump has unannounced call with Putin
Early August Giuliani travels to Spain to meet with Ukraine over Biden
August 8 Trump names Joseph Maguire acting DNI, purposely bypassing Coats’s number 2, Sue Gordon, who resigns with Coats
August 12 Whistleblower complaint filed
August 15 Coats and Gordon officially step down
Sept 1 VP Pence meets with Zelensky, emphasizes “rooting out corruption.” NSA John Bolton is in room.
Sept 10 Bolton resigns
Sept 11 White House releases Ukrainian aid funds it had been blocking
Sept 17 Acting DNI Maguire illegally refuses to hand over whistleblower report
I’ve seen someone note the whistleblower was accidentally referred to as “she” in one report. Might be a mistype, but I wouldn’t be surprised if—based on what we know—the whistleblower is former deputy DNI Sue Gordon. Just a guess, but you read it here first. And if so it’s huge.
All of this comes from timelines published by @washingtonpost and @abcnews. Check them out for yourselves.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

abcnews.go.com/Politics/contr…
One more note: in refusing to hand over the whistleblower report or comply with Congress’s subpoena, acting DNI Maguire cites pressure from “above,” assumed to be Trump.

The impeachment case is right here. It’s obvious and shocking. And undoubtedly there’s much more behind it.
The dam is breaking. Trump is losing his ability to corrupt decent humans to his will.
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Jeff Yang
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Republican or a Democrat, you need to read the Whistleblower Complaint. It’s a smoking gun laid next to the corpse of Rule of Law. The only questions are: Whose fingerprints—beyond @realDonaldTrump & @RudyGiuliani—will we find on it? And was the corpse also poisoned and stabbed?
These caught my eye too. What they say is White House officials abused security and classification systems to ensure evidence of other Trump crimes was locked down.

If that in any way impeded Mueller’s investigation: obstruction of justice.
Executive Order 13256 spells out procedure for classification. It details who can classify at Top Secret level—POTUS, VP or a minimal number of delegated agency heads or cabinet officers—and is written to ensure info isn’t misclassified. The clearly impeachable breaches are here.
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Jeff Yang
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Good. The principal and teachers who let the arrests happen also need to be disciplined. But something that I haven’t seen discussed yet is this: Turner was a school “resource officer.”

You know—the guys who are supposed to be the thin blue line of defense against mass shooters.
Resource officers are being used to discipline children via the law, as opposed to school rules—juvie lockup instead of school detention. The result is that they’re not being seen or seeing themselves as protecting kids, but policing them.

I suspect that doesn’t make kids safer.
As states staff and arm up resource officers instead of taking guns out of society, we’ll see accidental—and maybe not accidental—shootings of kids by officers. Incidents like these point to why it’s inevitable.
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Jeff Yang
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So there IS a racial group disproportionately benefiting from admissions preferences that have nothing to do with academic performance, who woulda thunk it

slate.com/business/2019/…
“43% of the Caucasian applicants accepted at Harvard University were either athletes, legacies, or the children of donors and faculty. Only about a quarter of those students would have been accepted to the school...without those admissions advantages”
slate.com/business/2019/…
“Unsurprisingly, athletes and legacies had an enormous edge when applying to Harvard—for whites, their admissions rates were 87 percent and 34 percent, respectively, compared to 4.89 percent for normal applicants.”
slate.com/business/2019/…
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😨Ex CIA Bob Baer suggests the “urgent credible threat” in the whistleblower complaint (that DNI won’t give Congress) ”usually” has something to do w/ someone in White House setting up an illegal backchannel to a foreign govt, or some sort of corruption, discovered by CIA or NSA.
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