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For public servants in government,

Recommend reading Stuart Gerson's powerful July 4 essay — essentially an open letter about service to country, rule of law, #patriotism, #whistleblowing and more.👇
2. Our editor's note, with Gerson's essay, lists these earlier pieces:

@schwellenbach, Survivor’s Guide to Being a Successful Whistleblower
justsecurity.org/37994/survivor…

@mcculloughirvin and Tom Devine, Know Your Rights: Conversations with Congress
justsecurity.org/66433/know-you…
3. From editor's note:

@oonahathaway and Sarah Weiner, Dissenting from Within the Trump Administration

"offering a catalog of the ways those working in government can respond when asked to participate in actions they believe to be illegal or unethical"
justsecurity.org/36420/dissenti…
4/4. The graphic with Gerson's essay includes these dozen #Patriots

Dr. Rick Bright
Laura Cooper
Capt. Brett Crozier
John Elias
David Holmes
George Kent
Elaine McCusker
Ambassador Bill Taylor
Mary Elizabeth Taylor
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman
Jennifer Wiliams
Aaron Zelinsky
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A Timeline of Trump's acts of accommodation to Russia while US intelligence agencies reported Putin was paying militants to kill American soldiers (February-June 2020)

from @jgeltzer @DaniSchulkin and me.

#RussianBounty
justsecurity.org/71182/the-base…
Feb. 20, 2020:

Trump removes acting DNI Maguire.

Why? Reportedly due in part to an intelligence briefing which told lawmakers that Putin wants Trump to be reelected.

(@pbump reporting)
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Feb. 28, 2020

Trump announces he’ll nominate Rep. Ratcliffe as the next DNI.

how does Ratcliffe figure in?

During impeachment hearing, he stated it was acceptable for a president “to invite a foreign government to become involved in an election involving a political opponent.”
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Not a hoax.

National Security Advisor O’Brien admits:

Pentagon made tactical changes with U.S. forces in light of intelligence information.

US intelligence agencies shared with Coalition Forces so they could also change force protection tactics.

And POTUS was unaware?!
2. Would also confirm my suspicion.

If the USG informed Coalition partners just last week about the threat so that they could adjust force protection....

It means there’s an ONGOING threat from #RussianBounty operation while Trump is burying his head in sand calling it a hoax.
3. O'Brien misrepresents what CIA Director said in her statement

Haspel very conspicuously did NOT say intelligence shared with coalition partners on #RussianBounty was raw and unverified

+ WaPo reported on CIA confidence in the intel
+ NYT reported intel verified by intercepts
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NYT comes back with even more specifics and they’re more damning:

“American officials provided a written briefing in late February to President Trump laying out their conclusion that a Russian military intelligence unit offered and paid bounties...”

nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/…
2. Documentary evidence in the offing:

“One of the officials said the item appeared in Mr. Trump’s brief in late February; the other cited Feb. 27, specifically.”
3. Intelligence assessment of #RussiaBounty “was also seen as serious and solid enough to disseminate more broadly across the intelligence community in a May 4 article in the CIA’s World Intelligence Review” (The Wire)
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