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Aug 18, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Some totally random thoughts after skimming the Senste Intel report: 1) The SSCI didn’t see the actual transcript of Flynn’s 12/29 call w Kislyak. They got the FBI’s summary and the 302. 2) The SSCI developed a lot of evidence of Maria Butina meeting w a variety of politicians.
3) Patrick Byrne introduced Butina to Rand Paul, consistent w his story timeline of the FBI encouraging him to introduce her around. He was rewarded by Butina by suggesting he’d be asked to speak at the World Economic Conference in St Petersburg. 4) The SSCI had no clue about ...
the details of what the PSS told the FBI, including that he lived in the US, not Russia. 5) The FBI spent little effort trying to corroborate the dossier, although the claimed to work on it until May 2017 when the SC was appointed. 6) After the SC was appointed, the SCO took over
all dossier related work and never advised the FBI what they were doing on it, if anything.
The SCO told the SSCI that the SC didn’t use the dossier in their investigation b/c they had more trust in their own work. I couldn’t find an explanation as to how the last FISA warrant renewal happened, given a) the FBI lost control over the dossier investigation and b) SCO ..,
wasn’t doing anything to verify the dossier either. Also, by then much of the dossier had come into serious question.

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Yesterday I posted a long thread on the sleight of hand pulled by D.A. Bragg in NY to conceal the fact that his theory of the case against Trump is, in effect, a prosecution of federal crimes that by law preempt and supersede the state laws Bragg says he is using.
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This is a THREAD on the sleight of hand, shell and pea game AG Bragg is playing in his case against Trump in NY. The object of this confidence game is to hide that Bragg is prosecuting a crime he has no authority over and that the court has no jurisdiction to hear.
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