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New from me and @DaniSchulkin:

Bill Barr recently tried to sneak in the idea that the U.S. used military force without a governor's consent in 1989.

That's FALSE, and Barr should know it. He was there at the time.

justsecurity.org/71535/bill-bar…
2. Our report is based on interviews with former officials who served with Barr at the time, plus the archival record.
3. On the left:

Bill Barr trying to use Virgin Islands operation to justify deployment of military force without governors' consent (#FacetheNation interview)

On the right:

White House statement at time of Virgin Islands operation saying they had governor's consent.
4. And this weird little tidbit:

In his interview with @margbrennan, Barr said he was Attorney General at the time. He wasn't. Dick Thornburgh was.
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Acting DHS Sec @DHS_Wolf denies he ever saw the Memo that was prepared for him on federal officers’ lack of training in Portland.

“I’ve seen some of the reporting about some type of memo. I’ve never seen any type of memo.”

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2. The title of the memo: "Briefing Memorandum FOR THE ACTING SECRETARY..."

If he never saw it, isn't that a problem too???? Image
3/3. "The message, dated Thursday, was prepared by the agency for Chad F. Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, as he arrived in Portland to view the scene in person."

NYT's @MrOlmos @ByMikeBaker @KannoYoungs reporting

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nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/…
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Note how the President is NOT restricting his remarks to protection of federal buildings.

As Barr plotted in 1989, the protection of federal courthouses is a pretext and the first step to get US militarized forces on the ground.
2. Here's Bill Barr's plan — in his own words — on how he devised use of military force in 1989 to protect federal courthouses as pretext to send in full force:

My piece with @DaniSchulkin:

justsecurity.org/71512/portland…
3. Here's @steve_vladeck and my exposition of internal Executive Branch policies that place the Attorney General (not the Secretary of Defense) in the lead role over use of U.S. armed forces to address domestic civil unrest.

justsecurity.org/70672/the-unto…
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CNN update on Michael Cohen book imprisonment:

“Prison officials in New York called bosses in DC about Michael Cohen before taking him back behind bars, source says”

That’s before US Marshal escorting him into custody said, “It's out of our hands."

lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_c…
2. Additional notes:

This is further corroboration of Cohen’s lawyers’ like account:

“In Cohen's case, probation officers told local Bureau of Prison officials that he had failed to agree to the terms in the document, according to the law enforcement official.”
3. That said, one doesn’t need that kind of corroboration. We have the very document he was asked to sign— with the additional condition that he not publish a book expressly in the text.
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