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1. I make an effort to keep trolls out of my twitter feed. I was taught by a media person long ago to just block them. Never engage. Now with tools like @cbouzy's @BotSentinel few get through but I have had an nostalgic stroll down memory lane in the past 24 hours with many
2. of what I make as vintage Russian troll accounts conducting an dispirited attack. The subject that has them spun-up appears to be comments about Rudy Giuliani being the target of the Durhan investigations. #FISA seems to be the tag that drew them to the flame. My thoughts.
3. Barr has clearly taken on the role of a Bond villain and outwardly shows himself to be attacking our intelligence services and most of us, who have not tasted the poison #MAGA Kool-Aid, believe that Trump and likely Barr are Kremlin assets. Nothing has changed that.
3. Putting aside the instant troll activity, I think the Barr Snipe Hunt has simply been buying time for the @FBIWFO to complete the counter-intelligence investigation. We already know why Trump was investigated. He's affiliated with the Russian mob, all Russian mob know they
4. are controlled by GRU and provide it intelligence that harms the US. That makes all Russian mob "agents of a foreign power" and therefore lawful FISA subjects. Trump has either been a direct FISA target or part of two-hop collections for decades.
5. Trump is not very smart and Barr is simply pretending to do an investigation.

The day before the 2016 election a well known right wing media account copied me on a scoop there was an open #FISA on the Trump campaign. I copied the post to the @FBI and noted that the leak,
6. if true, was serious violation of federal law. I believed then, and I believe now that the post was the beginning of a concerted Russian directed direct action campaign against President @HillaryClinton. But then, the next day, Hillary lost. But that leak was never exposed.
7. At the time @RudyGiuliani was touting his inside information that anecdotally appeared to be referring to the leaked #FISA. There were contemporaneous media comments that Giuliani has been getting tips from anti-Clinton @NewYorkFBI agents presumed to be members of the
8. enforcement crews who do the heavy lifting of FBI related police work. "Street Agents" was the term used. But a leak of a FISA is at a minimum 10 years but in certain circumstances could be life or even death sentence. But what it means is we may have a @FBI mole.
9. And a mole must be hunted. So as we watch the media losing it after the @nytimes reported they had a leak of a criminal investigation that, if it exposed a grand jury, was a federal crime under Rule 6(e). So, who would risk a prison sentence to give
10. @POTUS @RealDonaldTrump a boost of hope that his fantasy that he was victimized by the IC may become reality when all that happened was a really dumb Russian mobster called Russian spies in Moscow?

My guess is it was the Snipe Hunter. @nytimes @ktbenner @adamgoldmanNYT
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