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Kyle Cheney Profile picture
@kyledcheney
Sep 25, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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In the last 36 hours, DOJ has:

-Declassified a doc GOP lawmakers sought about the Steele Dossier
-Provided internal FBI messages to Flynn legal team
-Released an interview with one of the Flynn case agents
-Released questionable evidence of ballot irregularities in Pa.
The case agent, William Barnett, is a case-study in contradiction. He says he worried that there was groupthink among Mueller team — yet they often included him (and his converse opinions) in Flynn-related matters and processes.

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Barnett also said he raised internal questions about the Flynn case but viewed the other three prongs of Crossfire Hurricane as legit and did believe that Flynn lied in his FBI interview — to protect his job rather than cover up something Russia-related. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Barnett also undercut an earlier filing from the Flynn team that suggests FBI officials bought liability insurance because they feared fallout from the Flynn matter.

Barnett says discussions of insurance were likely unrelated to Flynn bc they predate the case becoming public.
And that earlier Flynn team filing also included an obvious error:
Overall though, there's a concerted effort to get more material into the public record — some of which would have reasonably been expected to be part of the Durham investigation yet now appears to packaged for public release by DOJ without any accompanying indictments.
BARNETT also pushed for an interview with Flynn in late 2016, calling it an "easy lay-up" that Flynn wouldn't view as suspicious because he was part of an incoming administration. Barnett said he viewed this as a formality toward closing the case.
NEW: An FBI agent who formerly worked with Mueller’s team told DOJ last week he believed Flynn lied to the FBI to save his job, not cover up a Russia operation. But the interview is a series of contradictions.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
It’s part of a slew of new docs dumped by DOJ to Flynn’s team as they prepare to argue next week for the dismissal of the case against him. And it comes as DOJ has dumped info in a series of other sensitive matters into the public domain. politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
BARNETT's testimony also cut against what has been billed as a bombshell revelation in docs released by Flynn's team just hours earlier: That FBI agents bought liability insurance because they were worried about fallout from Crossfire Hurricane.

politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
DOJ asked Barnett about internal FBI messages referencing a rush to buy insurance. Barnett said he didn't believe that was related to Flynn because it didn't work with the timeline of events.

He said he always urges colleagues to have liability insurance. politico.com/news/2020/09/2…

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Feb 5
Two men were recently charged with assaulting an immigration officer in MN with a snow shovel and broom, which led to a shooting ICE claims was defensive. The case made national headlines.

The men moved in court earlier in this week to prevent ICE from deporting witnesses who they say can rebut the charges. Their trial judge, Paul Magnuson, agreed.

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One of the witnesses, a 19-year-old woman who appears to be the partner of one of the defendants, was apparently picked up by ICE the same day as the incident and transported first to Texas and then to New Mexico.

Today, a judge in New Mexico noted demanded details about the woman's detention, noting that MN offered her a U visa for witnesses to a criminal investigation and that she's being held under mandatory detention policies that most judges – including Judge Strickland – have ruled unlawful.Image
UPDATE: Judge Strickland in New Mexico has now further enjoined DHS from relocating or deporting the witness. Image
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Feb 4
MEANWHILE: Judges in Minnesota continue rejecting the administration's efforts to lock up ICE's targets en masse. This man has been in the US since 1988 and says he's been approved for a green card.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
What may be most notable, however, is the increasingly lengthy list of requirements in the judge's order — each responsive to recent violations or transgressions by the administation, such as releasing MN residents in Texas with no way to get home to withholding their possessions Image
In another release order, Judge BARTLE — a George W. Bush appointee in Pennsylvania — vented today that ICE "continues to act contrary to law, to spend taxpayer money needlessly, and to waste the scarce resources of the judiciary." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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Feb 4
NEW: A rupture between DOJ and ICE has emerged in Minnesota, where overwhelmed prosecutors keep dropping the ball — and saying ICE won't return their messages.

The crisis has had real-world consequences for migrants illegally detained.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2026/02/0…Image
MORE: Julie Le — the DOJ attorney who vented about the chaos in court — has been reassigned. politico.com/news/2026/02/0…Image
Le's cases are the tip of the iceberg. In recent weeks, an overwhelmed DOJ has dropped the ball in dozens of cases, missing deadlines, botching filings, violating orders.

Judge say the local DOJ attorneys aren't at fault — but blame their DC leaders. politico.com/news/2026/02/0…
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Jan 31
!! Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos — who became a symbol of ICE's aggression in MN

"The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas..even if it requires traumatizing children storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Never seen a ruling like this: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
NEW: As he released 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, Judge Biery warned of vast lawlessness and inhumanity in the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. He said courts amounted to “a judicial finger in the dike.”

politico.com/news/2026/01/3…Image
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Jan 29
Judges around the country are eyeing what's happening in Minnesota. In a ruling freeing a detained immigrant here, Judge Goodwin of West Virginia said he couldn't ignore the crises in MN.

"Constitutional rights do not only protect persons when a lawsuit has been filed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Judge Traynor becomes latest in a vanishingly small -- but steadily growing -- minority of judges to side with the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy. He says it's a "sorrowful conclusion" to remove a law-abiding man from his family.

Notably, Tryanor -- a North Dakota-based Trump appointee -- is apparently handling cases in Minnesota due to the immense backlog of habeas petitions.

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UPDATE: Another judge in Minnesota, Reagan appointee David Doty, rules a detention by ICE illegal — and threatens contempt for a failure to return the man to Minnesota. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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Jan 26
HAPPENING NOW: Minnesota v. Noem hearing is underway before Judge Menendez, who will weigh whether to order an end to Operation Metro Surge. AG Keith Ellison is at counsel table for the state.
Lawyer for the state, Lindsey Middlecamp, begins by demanding immediate end to "unlawful and unchecked invasion" by federal agents. She cites the Alex Pretti killing and says things are escalating, not improving.
Middlecamp says AG Bondi's letter to the state amounted to a "ransom note" and that messages from her and President Trump amounted to an unconstitutional attempt to coerce the state to change its policies.
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