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Sep 30, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
COMEY sworn in for his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning. Image
GRAHAM keeps misstating Carter Page's relationship with the CIA. He was an "operational contact" which is different than a "source" or someone being "tasked" by the CIA.

Comey keeps pointing this out.
Here is the explicit distinction, as explained in the Horowitz report. Being an operaitonal contact "does not allow for operational use of a U.S. person or tasking of that person." justice.gov/storage/120919… Image
IMPORTANT: COMEY says that if he used the term "legit" to describe Flynn's calls to the Russians, it was meant to say the calls were "authentic" and not "fabricated."

Flynn team has used the "legit" phrasing to suggest Comey meant the calls were appropriate and above-board.
In fact, Flynn's attorneys in court yesterday used this interpretation, which Comey says today under oath is incorrect.
NEW: Comey says he's concerned about DOJ's decision to drop the Flynn case and that a key page of FBI notes cited by the Flynn defense has been incorrectly interpreted. w/ @AndrewDesiderio

politico.com/news/2020/09/3…
COMEY now says that neither Obama nor Biden made any suggestion about investigating Flynn under the Logan Act. That conflicts with another Flynn-team interpretation of the same set of notes — one Trump echoed on the debate stage last night.

politico.com/news/2020/09/3…
GRAHAM says that FBI agents purchased liability insurance because of the Flynn investigation.

But William Barnett, the lead Flynn agent who Graham just cited approvingly, said that suggestion was improbable and that the liability insurance discussion wasn't tethered to Flynn.

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Jan 11
BREAKING: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice.

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NEW: ICE's renewed block on unannounced congressional vists comes a month after a judge struck down a similar policy.

But the new version is tailored to sidestep that ruling by relying only on funds from the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

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Judge COBB's original ruling did concede that if DHS used only One Big Beautiful Bill Act funds to manage lawmaker visits, her ruling might change.

But the timing of Noem's new policy is notable: one day after Renee Good's death roiled the nation. politico.com/news/2026/01/1…Image
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Jan 6
JUST IN: DOJ says it has finished reviewing *less than 1%* of the Epstein Files for potential release.

Only 12,285 documents have been released while more than 2 million remain under review.

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MORE: DOJ says the batch of 1 million documents it recently unearthed appear to be largely duplicative "but nonetheless still need to undergo a process of processing and deduplication." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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NEW: DOJ says it's barely scratched the surface of the massive trove of Epstein Files, with millions of documents still being reviewed for release even with hundreds of lawyers working on it full-time.

Less than 1% of the files have come out so far.

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BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…
Smith was barred from discussing any nonpublic parts of his classified documents probe by Judge Cannon's order prohibiting DOJ from divulging any nonpublic info about it. Image
DOJ opted against having a lawyer present for Smith's deposition. Image
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In a late night filing, DOJ says Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be returned to detention because he is subject to laws governing detention during deportation proceedings — and “may seek a bond hearing” before an immigration judge. However … storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
The administration has been arguing in thousands of cases that people in Abrego’s position are not entitled to bond hearings at all — and rather are subject to mandatory detention. Hundreds of judges across the country have ruled that position illegal politico.com/news/2025/11/2…
And DOJ knows, but doesn’t mention here, that the immigration courts are all bound by a recent Board of Immigration Appeals ruling — breaking with decades of precedent — finding that bond hearings are not available to virtually anyone facing deportation proceedings. politico.com/news/2025/09/0…
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Dec 4, 2025
HAPPENING NOW: Taylor Taranto, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant who was convicted for bringing weapons to Obama’s neighborhood, has returned to DC and has been roaming Rep. Jamie Raskin’s neighborhood — alarming police.

Today, DOJ asked a judge to immediately re-jail him.
Taranto lives in WA state but drove across the country in recent weeks. He has filmed ominous videos from the Pentagon parking lot and was wandering Raskin’s Takoma Park area at 2am. DOJ says it’s nearly identical conduct to what he was charged for in 2023.
Judge Nichols, who convicted Taranto in a bench trial earlier this year, is weighing whether to detain him immediately for violating his supervised release conditions.
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Dec 2, 2025
HAPPENING NOW: Rahmullah Lakanwal makes his initial appearance in DC Superior Court, from a hospital bed, on charges for last week's National Guard shooting.
He's being apprised, through an interpreter, of the murder charge against him as well as charges of possessing of a firearm during commission of a violent offense, assault w intent to kill while armed.
Prosecutors are asking the judge to keep Lakanwal detained during pretrial proceedings. Lakanwal, who does appear to be in pain, says he can't open his eyes. His attorney is advising him not to speak.
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