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Sep 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
It required only a short trip, but @LindseygrahamSC has moved from hypocrite to farce with his release of the bogus intelligence assessment declassified for him by the spineless tool now serving as DNI. That unverified assessment, suggesting that Hillary Clinton led an effort /1
to link Trump with Russian election interference efforts in 2016, was so baseless that it was rejected by the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee "as having no factual basis." Graham, exhibiting the same mendacity as when he swore that he would oppose /2
any effort to seat a Supreme Court justice in an election year, displayed the integrity expected from one of Trump's most obedient supporters by insisting that the veracity of the information is irrelevant - a guiding principle of the current administration. /3
We are at a crossroads. Absent a change (and everyone knows what that change must be), the work of the finest intelligence services in the world will be irreparably undermined to serve blatantly partisan interests. It must STOP! /4

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There really is no reason for professed "bafflement" here. Sacrificing any semblance of principle in favor of crude opportunism, the Brennan Center allied itself with the likes of Gaetz, Boebert, Biggs, Roy, and Taylor Greene - a group that couldn't develop a coherent /1
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So, let me understand this line of bulls#it. If Trump carried a document upstairs with his cheeseburger and the information in that document was, just to cite a few examples: (1) derived from NSA having decrypted a complex foreign encryption system used to transmit information /1
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Aug 12, 2022
We're not writing on tabula rasa here. E.O. 13526 prescribes, at times in excruciating detail, the handling of classified information. Without disappearing into the weeds on whether a president can unilaterally declassify information (yes) without following any of the /1
notification procedures of E.O. 13526 (unlikely w/o amending the E.O.), there is no record of Trump declassifying any of the Mar-a-Lago information while president. Once out of office, his access to classified information is fully under the purview of E.O. 13526. This means /2
he needs to establish a "need to know" as required by §4.1(a)(3) of E.O. 13526. While such a requirement can be waived for former presidents (§4.4(a)(3)), there is no indication he ever asked for a waiver and one almost certainly would not have been granted given Biden's /3
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Aug 12, 2022
Release of the warrant and property receipt, which are the only documents subject to the DoJ motion, may not provide materially more detail other than the criminal statutes identified in the warrant and, perhaps, a more particularized description of the focus of the search. /1
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Frankly, this is just political posturing. Not cheap political posturing, to be sure, because it would cost a fortune to implement, but posturing. Full disclosure, I gave 17 years of military service to spare my (middle class) parents the cost of college and graduate school /1
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If the WAPO report is true, coercion of political activity is only one of the problems with this memo. Unprocessed raw collection resides in multiple data bases at NSA and “unprocessed” means not minimized. If these data bases include FISA collection, /1
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incidental collection of USP communications. Ignoring those minimization procedures violates FISA, and FISA carries criminal and civil penalties for willful violations. Additionally, even if the collection activity occurred outside the US so that FISA does not apply /3
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