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Chris Murphy 🟧 Profile picture
@ChrisMurphyCT
Oct 1, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This hasn't gotten enough attention, but you need to know. Everybody needs to know.

1/ It's about the massive coverup campaign underway to disguise the octopus-like Russian election interference operation being run on Trump's behalf.

Please read this whole thing.
2/ Earlier this year, reports start coming into Congress about a giant, multi-layer Russian effort to help Trump in 2020. Bigger than what they did in 2016. Looks like Russians are trying to get U.S. persons - especially those close to Trump - to help.
3/ On July 13, Dem leadership writes a letter to FBI Director Wray, asking for an all-Congress briefing, especially because the reports we're reading suggest Russian agents are trying to find Members of Congress to assist their interference operation.
speaker.gov/newsroom/72020…
4/ On 7/24, Bill Evanina, Trump's counter-intel chief, releases a super vague statement. 72 words on Chinese/Iranian interference, and 54 words on Russia.

Very puzzling. Congress has never been briefed on any meaningful Chinese/Iranian interference plans.
dni.gov/index.php/news…
5/ On 8/7, an update. This one has 219 words on China/Iran, 105 on Russia.

But read it closely - though China gets the lead and the most attention, Evanina just says they are "weigh[ing] the risks" of election interference - NOT that they are doing it.
dni.gov/index.php/news…
6/ Then, on 9/9, a bombshell that few noticed. The head of intelligence at DHS (the top guy!) files a whistleblower complaint.

He says the White House instructed him to bury info on Russian interference because it "made the President look bad."

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
7/ A day later (coincidence!), the Treasury Dept. sanctions Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian politician in charge of spreading Biden conspiracy theories, and notes, offhand, that Derkach is indeed a Russian agent.
politico.com/news/2020/09/1…
8/ No press conference from Intel or the FBI or DHS that they've caught a Russian agent who has been in regular contact with the President's inner circle.

Nope. Just buried in a sanctions announcement. Likely because so many people knew the intel, they knew it would come out.
9/ What's happening is clear. American intel agencies, that are supposed to be totally apolitical, have been folded into Trump's campaign.

They are keeping info about Russian interference hidden, and overhyping info about China and Iran helping Biden.
10/ It's why Trump's former National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster, said something today that is as shocking as it unsurprising.

He said Trump is "aiding and abetting" Putin's interference campaign.

Wow.

But of course he is. And now you know the details.

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Mar 6
I have some bad news - buried in the appropriations bill being voted on this week is a terrible new gun policy rider that significantly rolls back the firearms background check system.

1/ You need to know about this - it’s bad enough that I will vote against the entire bill.
2/ Republicans (and one or two Democrats) pushed for the new rider that allows, for the first time in 30 years, veterans judged by the VA to be mentally incompetent to buy guns.

These are very very mentally ill veterans - those at the highest risk of suicide.
3/ I can’t sugarcoat this: this provision - which could result in 20,000 new seriously mentally ill individuals being able to buy guns each year - will be a death sentence for many.

It’s unacceptable this provision was pushed by Republicans. Democrats shouldn’t have acquiesced.
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Feb 4
Minutes ago, the text of the bipartisan national security funding bill was released. It:

-funds Ukraine, Israel, and humanitarian relief
-secures our border and reforms our asylum law

1/ As the co-author of the immigration provisions, here's a THREAD on the key elements:
2/ First - it would be easy to just keep immigration and border policy as a political cudgel for another 40 years. But politics at its best is about finding bipartisan compromise on the toughest issues. That's what we've done here.

Here's a snapshot of what's in the bill.
3/ A quicker, fairer asylum process. No more 10 yr wait. Claims processed in a non-detained, non-adversarial way in 6 months.

A slightly higher asylum screening standard at the border.

Also, no more waiting for work permits. Most asylum seekers can work immediately.
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Oct 21, 2023
I support Israel in its mission to seek justice for the worst terrorist attack in their history.

1/ That means providing funding and weapons. But it also means making sure they don't repeat our mistakes in Afghanistan when we invaded after our nation's worst terrorist attack.
2/ We were too permissive of civilian casualties, and we did not understand that our operations were creating two Taliban recruits for everyone we eliminated.

You cannot defeat a movement if you are constantly providing it bulletin board material for recruitment efforts.
3/ War planning is not complete without a realistic endgame.

Shutting down all ungovernable space, creating a western style Afghan democracy, and killing every Taliban member were not realistic goals. Had we admitted this at the start, our war plan would have been different.
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Sep 26, 2023
The UAW fight is so important because it strikes at the heart of America's spiritual crisis.

The hollowing out of workers' economic power has been devastating for American families. So many people feel not in control of their lives, because they work so hard and get so little.
Both parents work. Child care is outsourced to strangers. There's not enough money coming in to do anything other than pay the bills. No vacations. No college savings. One big medical bill away from insolvency. No breathing room.

It's an exhausting existence.
And all the while, these families watch the mega-rich, including the executives at the companies they work for, get richer. They know that the system is rigged against them. And the anxiety and anger that was already there boils over.
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Sep 13, 2023
I attended today's meeting and will play a role in the upcoming debate. But I have concerns unique from many of my colleagues.

1/ Yes, deep fakes/job displacement worry me. But I'm more concerned with the psychological cost of outsourcing so many basic human functions to AI.
2/ Conversation, composition, creativity, discovery, in person connection - these are the things that make us human and fill our lives with meaning and value.

What happens when AI writes our e-mails, composes our music, creates our art? What happens as machines replace teachers?
3/ I know it's not black and white. I know there are huge benefits to AI and machine learning. Yes, AI could enhance our creativity, make our composition better, help us find new friends, improve educational experience.
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Aug 31, 2023
Thousands of gun dealers currently do not do background checks, allowing loads of criminals to get guns.

The 2022 gun bill sought to change that, and today Biden announced the rule to implement the change.

1/ This is a BIG deal. Let me tell you why.
msn.com/en-us/news/pol…
2/ Only people "engaged in the business" of selling firearms have to conduct background checks on buyers. In the era of gun shows and , with thousands of part time sellers making big profits off selling guns, the pre-internet definition had become outdated.armslist.com
3/ The 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act changed the definition of "engaged in the business" to clarify that selling guns didn't need to be your "livelihood". You just had to be selling guns in order to make a profit.

It was a big, important - but largely unnoticed - change.
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