Because I am a massively distracted geeked up loser, I'm spending my Friday night reading the Assistant Attorney General for National Security's prepared testimony before Congress. @911CORLEBRA777 @ericgarland @thespybrief @20committee @LouiseMensch A thread
This is the cat who has primary responsibility for ALL NATIONAL SECURITY PROSECUTIONS. The office would have had the 2016 NATSEC (above Mueller) prosecutions in conjunction with Rod Rosenstein. (Clip from the DOJ Justice Manual) 
NATSEC DAG has three assistant DAGs: ADAG Counterterror/Counterintell; ADAG Intelligence and ADAG Law and Policy
The office was vacant from October 2016 to Febuary 2018, which I guess means that any CI investigation was covered by the DAG (Yates, Boente, Rosenstein), I can't find any "acting" head of CI.
So - I guess Rod Rosenstein was running both the Mueller criminal investigations AND the CounterIntel investigations through appointment of Demers in Feb 2018. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St…
This Division has responsibility for EVERYTHING that matters in Trump/Russia - Foreign investments; FISA applications; FARA - essentially the liason between Intelligence and the DOJ. justice.gov/nsd/national-s…
Sorry @911CORLEBRA777 to bore you with all this. ADAG testified before US Congress about CHINA'S belligerence and future plans justice.gov/nsd/national-s… among many conclusions
@911CORLEBRA777 For US Domestic experts tagged herein, I am fascinated by the DEAD SILENCE on Trump/Russia. Here's 2019 remarks by person with CI responsibility. NOTHING. justice.gov/opa/speech/dep…
@911CORLEBRA777 Here are prior remarks specifically on the 2016 influence campaign -- again, very significant omissions of a thousand entirely obvious issues. justice.gov/opa/speech/dep…
@911CORLEBRA777 Here's some pretty bad ass GLOMAR - won't discuss POTUS involvement in foreign interference.
@911CORLEBRA777 Hickey's testimony (ROSE COLOREDS ALERT) specifically cited in 425 Million budgeted for election defense. witf.org/2019/12/17/con…
@911CORLEBRA777 This cat Hickey must be kind of a badass: Harvard and Yale; cyber-defense; now responsible for China and FARA; presumably at the heart of FARA and China prosecutions of the moment. docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU…
@911CORLEBRA777 BOTTOM LINE: There's a super smart badass prosecutor dude in the thick of FARA and NATSEC; no one is talking about the continuing Trump/Russia ivestigations; BARR HAS TERTIARY RESPONSIBILITY after ADAG and DAG.
