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17 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Top Dems on the Senate intelligence and armed services committees are trying to stop one of President Trump’s White House attorneys, Michael Ellis, from taking over as the senior lawyer for the NSA, the Daily Beast has learned
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Not only was Ellis supposedly one of the aides who helped Rep. Nunes manufacture a surveillance “unmasking” scandal, he was implicated in moving to a classified server the record of Trump’s phone call with Zelensky—the one that helped get Trump impeached
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Maneuvering is underway to block Ellis’ appointment. Sens. Mark Warner and Jack Reed have written to the inspector general of the Defense Department, of which NSA is a component, demanding an investigation into Ellis’ installation.
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Some believe the Trump administration is trying to embed loyalists in positions where they cannot be fired absent specific misconduct, to make real their accusations of a Deep State that overrides presidential authority
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“Trump is burning the whole house down,” said one former senior official. “He’s burning it down and trying to take everything with him.”
Read @attackerman’s full story here: trib.al/d5tfolZ

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