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Last week:
Sep 8
Former top DHS official Brian Murphy files complaint w/House Homeland Security Cmte [HHSC] vs DHS
Sep 9
HHSC makes complaint public
Sep 10
Chad Wolf nominated for DHS sec'y
Sep 11
HHSC subpoenas Chad Wolf, whose response is⤵️ 1/
@RubyWorms@ThomasS4217 2/ How *convenient* for Chad Wolf to be nominated as DHS secretary *one day* after HHSC releases damning whistleblower complaint, and then one day after that uses Wolf's DHS nomination as excuse for not complying w/HHSC subpoena. (more) h/t @BaddCompani
@RubyWorms@ThomasS4217@BaddCompani 3/ "The WH sent Wolf's nomination to serve as full Homeland Security secretary to the Senate on Thursday" [Sep 10, 2020] one day before Wolf's subpoena was issued.
"In a Friday [Sep 11, 2020] letter...Assistant DHS Secretary Beth Spivey told the [HHSC] chairman... (con't)
@RubyWorms@ThomasS4217@BaddCompani 4/ ...'The arguments in your letter are without merit,' adding in part that 'the right of a President's nominee to 👉abstain from testifying on matters unrelated to his or her nomination while such a nomination is pending is an unwritten rule👈 honored by Chairmen... (con't)
@RubyWorms@ThomasS4217@BaddCompani 5/ ...from both sides of the aisle for many decades."
"Should the presence of SOPDDS Cuccinelli before the Cmte in Acting Sec'y Wolf's stead not meet your needs, we can...find a later date for the Acting Secretary to make himself available to the Cmte 👉after his confirmation...
@RubyWorms@ThomasS4217@BaddCompani 6/ ...vote in the Senate."
Congress needs to give itself power to remove "acting" Cabinet-level positions so that this egregious catch-22 never happens again.
"Separately, the top Republican & Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a letter to the same office [DHS]...
1/ Chevron’s🇺🇸 "Israeli🇮🇱 operations are helping fill the need. Chevron exports sizable volumes to Egypt🇪🇬, which has facilities to convert the fuel to liquefied natural gas... nytimes.com/2023/07/27/bus…
@LongAsUCan2 @StringwallApp @Loveon999 @satirehat @NelsonSkeels @tammy_sager @GravenScott @DenbySister @BetheMckenzie @BiznezNuna @TeresaCCarter2 @Lov_dem66 @grumpiest @rhonda_harbison @amys_here @JupiterDi1112 @mikes_booh @HiblerDana @AShoutOutfromMN @zipillinois @ABrat626 @pocantico98 @Timodc @FDD 2/ ...and send it on to European ports. Steps like expanding production at Leviathan and 👉streamlining the pipelines between Israel and its neighbors👈 are expected to potentially allow such exports to more than double, to a level that could meet the needs...
@LongAsUCan2 @StringwallApp @Loveon999 @satirehat @NelsonSkeels @tammy_sager @GravenScott @DenbySister @BetheMckenzie @BiznezNuna @TeresaCCarter2 @Lov_dem66 @grumpiest @rhonda_harbison @amys_here @JupiterDi1112 @mikes_booh @HiblerDana @AShoutOutfromMN @zipillinois @ABrat626 @pocantico98 @Timodc @FDD 3/ ...of a country like the Netherlands🇳🇱, a major user of the fuel, though it would amount to 👉only a fraction of the missing Russian🇷🇺 gas👈."
"Largely because of Leviathan, as this gas field is known, Israel🇮🇱 has 👉far more natural gas than it can consume or...
On Feb 3 [2023], a post on a Twitter account associated with Mr. Swinson, which has now been deleted, requested to buy combat patches of 👉Wagner, the Russian paramilitary force notorious for extrajudicial executions👈...
2/ NYT reports that "James K. Kallstrom, the New York F.B.I. chief..." died on Sunday [Jul 4, 2021*] at his home in Fairfield, Conn. He was 78." (more)
*Wikipedia lists Kallstrom's date of death as Jul 3, 2021🙄.
3/ "Kallstrom started working in the New York office in 1971 and spent his entire career there, with the exception of 3 years spent in Washington in charge of the Special Operations Division, which oversees technical and surveillance operations. (con't)
As a lay person, citing "nuclear weapons" struck me as too specific -- but Lincoln's Bible explanation makes more sense to me (see next tweet)... archive.ph/Ou0BN