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I take it back, @NicolleDWallace

Barr held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking help in a DOJ inquiry President Trump hopes will discredit US intel agencies’ examination of Russian interference in the 2016 election:

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
@NicolleDWallace It's “fairly unorthodox for the attorney general personally to be flying around the world as a point person to further evidence-gathering for a specific Justice Department investigation.”
@NicolleDWallace "The appointment of John Durham — a seasoned, nonpartisan prosecutor — provided some reason to believe that it would be handled in a professional, nonpartisan manner. But if the attorney general is essentially running this investigation, that entire premise is out the window.”
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So the CIA says it made a criminal referral on the whistleblower's complaint to DOJ? And was mystified why Barr's agency only looked at it as a possible campaign finance violation--and (in the spirit of "no obstruction" from the Mueller probe) moved on? nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
Either Elwood, the CIA's general counsel, is disingenuous, at a minimum, or Barr's folks may have been bad actors and ran interference for the White House. Whichever it is, neither is good.
When Elwood and Eisenberg spoke with DOJ, no one on the phone had seen the whistleblower's formal complaint, which had been submitted two days before and was still a secret.

***"The issue of campaign finance law was not part of their deliberations, the officials said."***
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Trump’s zeal for conspiracy theories — just a flicker until he embraced birtherism in 2011 — has boomeranged on him in Ukraine and left him mired in an impeachment inquiry: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
"One of the telling aspects of Trump’s turn to sprawling conspiracy theorizing eight years ago, and his subsequent immersion in it, is that it’s one of the few signature pieces of his current repertoire that isn’t a throwback."
Charles Coughlin, the anti-Semitic “radio priest” of the '30s, and Joseph McCarthy, who used TV to stoke the '50s red scare, exemplified Hofstadter’s thinking. Trump, who’s used social media and Fox News’s talk shows to propagate conspiracies, stands squarely on their shoulders.
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Cadre, a real estate startup partly-owned by Jared Kushner, is seeking an investment of at least $100 million from a private fund backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
N.B. This story is from May, 2018, and my tweet should have been more precise: "Cadre *sought* an investment of at least $100 million from a Saudi and UAE-backed fund."
The deal never came to fruition. But in the current news cycle in which the public is paying closer attention to deal-making involving politicians and their relatives, it's germane.
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On May 23rd, the President gave AG Barr authority to declassify whatever documents he wanted. He also suggested Barr look into corruption in Ukraine.

Why is the media acting like this is news?
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