THREAD 9 pages 800-902 of the 966 page Senate Intelligence Committee’s #Volume5 counterintelligence report into Russian interference. Steele Dossier, FBI / DNC failures, selective facts creating narratives. Please read this report for yourself and draw your own conclusions.
Pg 806 Answers some questions like was there a server in trump tower that may have been communicating with Alfa Bank in a Russia? Yes. It may have been to spam Alfa Bank employees.
Pg 816 If any page in #Volume5 captures more simply, eloquently, plainly and clearly what was going on here, I haven’t read it yet.
The next 40 pgs lay out how our government institutions and our own over confidence in our abilities failed us. FBI may not have been as forceful in letting DNC know about hack. DNC staffers telling the FBI, we got this ourselves. FBI unable to really compel DNC take actions.
Pg 859 So much talk of ‘Crowdstrike’ during impeachment if you recall. Republicans beating a drum about a server in Ukraine being the real hack of the DNC. As maddening as that was, the truth might be more so. DNC hired CrowdStrike to vet materials before cooperating with FBI.
Think about that. A hack at the DNC occurs, they tell FBI, we got this, they hire CrowdStrike to get before FBI, then Republicans use this terrible decision to distract us with Ukraine interfering in the election. R’s used their own tool against the D’s and we let them. 🤦♂️
Pg 861 Steele Dossier. The committee found that it was Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS who offered to obtain oppo research on trump and specifically mentioned over-seas relationships. He did this in June 2016. Prior to the trump tower mtg on June 9th, Simpson had lunch with...
Veselnetskya, the Russian lawyer jr. thought was going to provide dirt on HRC. If Simpson offered to help HRC’s campaign after June 9th meeting, he did it with knowledge that Russians were trying to work with trump. If he did it before June 9th, he should tell us lotto numbers.
Pg 863 Arguments have been made and investigations launched over cries of the abuse of FISA process. It is addressed again here with [REDACTED] and a consistent Republican battle cry of inaccuracies. The IG found typos and nothing that would have stopped the investigation.
Pg 864 The Dossier begins to change hands. It goes from Steele’s friend to Republican Senator John McCain. Then [REDACTED]. This is ponderous because if the underlying information is that McCain asked his friend Lindsey Graham what to do, we already know that.
Pg 870 People intertwine Fusion GPS and the Steele Dossier. They shape facts and leave out the context. Fusion GPS was originally hired to do oppo research on trump by conservative Republicans. Back when the GOP wasn’t a cult of personality yet. Four short, long years ago.
Pg 881 A reminder as you place each of the preceding 880 pages into a full context. This was intricate, complex, many moving parts with many characters and many motivations. With a bit of hindsight and the human ability to project into the future, what does the report tell you?
Pg 902 I’ll give 2 bonus pages today. As eluded to earlier around page 861, Simpson and Veselnetskya knew each other. They met in NYC pretty much immediately prior to the jr trump tower meeting. Perhaps Magnitsky Act will make an appearance tomorrow as we wrap this up.
These past 102 pages are not as revealing or unrelenting as the prior pages of #Volume5 The findings around the urgency with which the FBI handled the breach at DNC is off putting. Especially when we are relying on them to see us through this now as it is happening again.
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It’s been a while since we’ve used the wayback machine. Let’s see how it holds up on a short trip. We’re going to go on a journey back to a time before trump was president.
Don’t get too excited. It’s to do with aid to Ukraine.
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On July 28, 2016, in Cleveland at the Republican National Committee, the GOP removed a single issue from their party platform. Essentially, it became trump policy to no longer provide aid to Ukraine.
A delegate said it was taken out by trump’s people.
But that’s a bit awkward because the newly minted GOP Nominee eventually ended up telling Robert Mueller he didn’t recall. Strange because trump, has like a great memory. And his uncle was like, a physicist or something.🤷🏼♂️
There will no doubt be a lot said by smarter people than I about this ruling in the GA v trump et al. case, but I would like to offer two important thoughts I hope they don’t miss.
Firstly, please understand the danger. Look at what just happened. The whole country has been on edge awaiting this ruling because it determined whether or not a former president accused of some gangster shit, might get away with it because of some more gangster shit.
This dude is so dangerous to prosecute, a former GOVERNOR declined to be the special prosecutor because of safety concerns. This dude is so dangerous because he has a dangerous crew. I don’t how to lay this out clearly for people to understand so please bear with me as I try.
Have you heard of Project 2025? It’s a ‘Playbook’. You can read the whole “Mandate” for yourself at this link and I encourage you to do so. *Please* know who you’re voting for in November.
First thing to know: There is a Project 2025. This is important to know. It exists. It’s a plan. It’s coming day one of the next conservative presidency. I am not being hyperbolic. If you are seeing this, it will have some impact on your life. It’s designed to.
This is a Heritage Foundation joint. There are roughly 386 ‘contributors’ to Project 2025 and at least 48 of them are Heritage Foundation. That’s 12% of all contributors give or take some bad eyesight, counting, and maths and unknown crossover organizational alignments.
I was thinking about my dad the other day. He’s still here, he’s fine. I was just thinking about him.
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My dad would tell me stories about guys like his dad. Guys like his dad fought in WWII. Guys like my dad, revered those guys.
A wee thread🧵👇🏻
The only reason the tv set growing up didn’t have the History Channel logo burned into it was because occasionally, I’d watch sports. The history channel had documentary after documentary of WWII. My dad likes the air battles. He would talk about “Those Guys”.
“Those Guys,” he’d say, “Those Guys sat in a bubble OUTSIDE the airplane, Joey!’ “Can you believe that? Imagine how cold it must have been!”
He was referring to the tail gunners on the screen.
You guys…I think I’m going to call it a year. I will begin my final thread of 2024 as I mean to end it, and that is conversationally and with gratitude. Thank you for all your continued dedication to self-determination and democracy.
I’m tired.
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This year was more difficult than last year. Things are getting harder. My balance is getting worse and my body is getting stiffer. I’ve had more falls this year than last. Speaking of falls, it seems more leaves fell in the yard this year than last.
The time change this year and its underreported havoc it wreaks on my medication is worse this year than last. I’ve torn my Achilles and my hamstring this year as opposed to no injuries last.
This is a wee thread. I tell you that now because there is no clever preamble, no fun intro to pique your interest. Just a simple request that you know I lack understand on this topic and make no judgments. I share it so those who can make sense of it hopefully do so.
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On December 23rd of 2016, the United Nations adopted UN resolution number 2334. It is here for you to read. Please do so. If you don’t, know the gist is that this UN Security Council resolution stated that Israel’s settlements have no legal validity.
The history of this resolution is one that helps put into context some of what we may be seeing today. At the time, Barack Obama was President and Bibi Netanyahu was Prime Minister of Israel. vox.com/world/2016/12/…