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"US intelligence officials informed senators in recent weeks that Russia had engaged in a yearslong campaign to frame Ukraine as responsible for it’s own hacking of the 2016 election." bit.ly/2XS3F6N

You are spewing Russian propaganda, @SenJohnKennedy, and you know it.
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@SenJohnKennedy Sen Kennedy on CNN tries to clean up his appalling comments on Fox News Sunday, claiming he misheard question: “It was Russia that tried to hack the DNC computers. I’ve seen no indication Ukraine tried to do it.”

Now say it on Fox News, @SenJohnKennedy.
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Polly Sigh
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BREAKING via @kyledcheney: Judge says Don McGahn MUST testify to the House Judiciary Committee.

McGahn may still invoke privilege claims but is not "absolutely immune" from testifying. Case will surely be appealed and main quesiton is whether a stay is issued.
@kyledcheney !! Federal judge rules that Don McGahn must testify to House impeachment investigators: "The subpoenaed official does, as a matter of law, have a duty to respond notwithstanding any contrary order of the President."

The Trump admin is expected to appeal.
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@kyledcheney The ruling that Don McGahn must testify could also have implications for other key witnesses, such as former NSA John Bolton who has refused to testify until a federal court weighs in on the conflict between Congress and the White House.
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Polly Sigh
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SCOOP: Subpoenas issued for information Parnas and Fruman indicate a broad federal investigation into possible money laundering, obstruction, and campaign-finance violations and suggest prosecutors are looking closely at Giuliani's consulting firm.
#Maddow on.wsj.com/2KUcIyD
Subpoenas listed a half dozen+ potential charges under consideration by SDNY:
-obstruction
-money laundering
-conspiracy to defraud the US
-making false statements to the federal govt
-FARA violations
-campaign finance violations
-mail fraud and wire fraud
MORE: Investigators scrutinize Giuliani’s firm and donations to a Trump super PAC.

There's also interest in interactions with 3 key figures in Giuliani’s hunt for Biden dirt: ex Ukrainian President Poroshenko and ex prosecutors Lutsenko & Shokin.
#Maddow wapo.st/2DiEdO0
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Polly Sigh
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SCOOP: The House Intelligence Committee is in possession of audio and video recordings and photographs provided by indicted Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas.

The submitted recordings and photos include Giuliani and Trump. Lordy! There are tapes.
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The tapes were provided as part of that congressional subpoena issued to Lev Parnas.

Some material sought by congressional investigators is already in possession of federal investigators within the SDNY and thus held up from being turned over.
#Maddow
“Mr. Parnas reasonably believed Giuliani’s directions [to encourage Firtash to dig up dirt on Biden] reflected the interests and wishes of the president, given Parnas having witnessed and in several instances overheard Giuliani speaking with the president.”
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Robert Maguire
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The Senate, the House, the US intel community and the Mueller investigation have found that Russia meddled in 2016 in a "sweeping and systematic fashion" (to use Mueller's words), but a US senator is entertaining conspiracy theories pushed by the president that say otherwise
This is disgraceful and dangerous.
The Senate was just briefed on this: "In a briefing that closely aligned with Dr. Hill’s testimony, American intel officials informed senators and their aides in recent weeks that Russia had engaged in a yearslong campaign to essentially frame Ukraine" nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/…
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Mona
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Here's the NYT pc that @maddow is talking about re the Intel briefing the Senate got about Russia/Ukraine. It's important, so I've threaded it. It's long, but everyone should read this. #FridayFeeling #SaturdayMorning
nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/…
2-"Republicans have sought for weeks amid the impeachment inquiry to shift attention to President Trump’s demands that Ukraine investigate any 2016 election meddling, defending it as a legitimate concern while Democrats accuse Mr. Trump of pursuing fringe theories for his benefit
3-"The Republican defense of Mr. Trump became central to the impeachment proceedings when Fiona Hill, a respected Russia scholar and former senior White House official, added a harsh critique during testimony on Thursday. She told some of Mr. Trump’s fiercest defenders in
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Karol Cummins
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💣Aiding&Abetting💣:

The years long narrative ‘Ukraine rather than RU meddled in the 2016 elex’ is a RU Intel Op, US Intel says.

US Intel officials informed senators and their aides of the origin of this narrative & how it serves RU

Yet GOP continue to amplify the falsehoods
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RU had engaged in a yearslong campaign to essentially frame Ukraine as responsible for Moscow’s own hacking of the 2016 election.

The briefing came as Republicans stepped up their defenses of Mr. Trump in the Ukraine affair.
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The revelations demonstrate Russia’s persistence in trying to sow discord among its adversaries — and show that the Kremlin apparently succeeded, as unfounded claims about Ukrainian interference seeped into Republican talking points
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Caroline Orr
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Russian intel officers launched an op in 2017 blaming Ukraine for DNC hack/elex interference.

This disinfo was then passed to prominent Russians & Ukrainians, then thru intermediaries (oligarchs, businessmen) who passed it to US politicians & journalists. nyti.ms/2QIG1Yx
In a briefing, US intelligence officials informed senators & their aides in recent weeks that Russia had engaged in a years-long campaign to frame Ukraine for Moscow’s own hacking of the 2016 election.

And once again, right-wing media & Republicans allied w/ Russia to lie to us.
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Josh Rudolph
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Key revelation today: The "fictional narrative" that it was Ukraine and not Russia that interfered in our 2016 election "has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves." [THREAD]
Immediately after making that unambiguous attribution in her prepared remarks today, former senior official Fiona Hill noted that "some of the underlying details [of the intel assessment that Russia was the foreign power that attacked us in 2016] must remain classified."
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