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13 Dec, 10 tweets, 4 min read
Just got docs in response to my #FOIA lawsuit against DOJ about Barr's intervention in the Stone case

This is a NO SURPRISE letter. It's what journalists send about what they intend to report. Posting this for the sanctimonious, shitty reporters who work at other media outlets
DOJ's Kerri Kupec keeping the WH updated about what she said in the record and on background about DOJ's intervention in the Stone case
George Terwilliger helping console Bill Barr
WaPo's Ruth Marcus not buying the spin from DOJ's Kerri Kupec re: Roger Stone and Barr's intervention in the case
DOJ follow up to that George Terwilliger email
After DOJ alumni signed a statement condemning Barr's intervention in Stone case, Kerri Kupec tells this Fox News reporter, off the record, she wishes she could comment & say she's not losing sleep over the ".0001% of past and present living DOJ officials not liking Bill Barr"
Deputy AG Jeffrey Rosen asking DOJ spox Kerri Kupec for time to discuss what he claims is the NYT "false statement" regarding it's reporting on Stone & Barr's intervention

Insight into how DOJ was trying to shield Barr & control narrative
To be clear, this is what I sued DOJ for related to the Stone & Flynn cases
Here's DOJ's Kerri Kupec emailing Katherine Henning, special asst to Trump, and WH deputy press sec (now former) Hogan Gidley informing them what she told the media on and off the record about the Stone case and Barr's intervention, which included the statement no contact w/WH
Interesting email re: Roger Stone and DOJ IG

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14 Dec
NEW/THREAD: I filed a #FOIA lawsuit against ODNI CIA & DOJ for the criminal referral sent to DOJ related to the intel community whistleblower disclosures on Trump & Ukraine, which led to impeachment

I just rec'd some previously unreleased docs to add to the historical record

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The first document is a formal referral letter dated Sept 4, 2019 the ICIG sent to Stacey Moy, the FBI's deputy director for counterintelligence about alleged crimes connected to Trump's call with Ukraine pres. This letter to Moy has not been previously mentioned

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The next letter is a copy of the document preservation hold letter sent to the WH counsel. This letter was referred but a copy of it has not been previously released. @mcculloughirvin told me this letter is a big deal & shows IG taking investigative actions against the WH

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10 Dec
For a second, I thought I wrote this article

No, I Am Not Getting Rid of My Thousands of CDs

nytimes.com/2020/12/09/art…
Although it centers around classical music it certainly applies to my feelings about my own collection.
I mean I just can't part with it
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4 Dec
🚨NEW/WOW: At a hearing this morning in my/@BuzzFeedNews & CNN #FOIA lawsuit for FBI 302s from the Mueller probe, Judge Reggie Walton said Judge Sullivan could potentially find that the pardon issued to Michael Flynn is invalid because it is too broad in its language.

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Our great #FOIA attorney @mvtopic & CNN's attorney asserted at the hearing that the govt needs to reprocess and produce the Flynn 302s that were withheld now that he has been pardoned. DOJ agreed to do that and we will have it by January 15

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🚨NEW: Judge Questions Whether Trump’s Pardon of Michael Flynn Is 'Too Broad'

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said Emmet Sullivan could find that “the wording of the pardon is too broad, in that it provides protections beyond the date of the pardon.”

law.com/nationallawjou…
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1 Dec
BREAKING: DOJ just turned over the last set of typewritten FBI 302s from the Mueller investigation --46 heavily redacted pages - in response to my/@BuzzFeedNews & CNN's #FOIA lawsuit. We pried loose more than 5K pages over the past 13 months #MuellerMemos
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Now the Justice Department has to start processing and producing to us all the supporting material -- handwritten notes, memos, emails -- that accompanied the 302s. Government attorneys have already indicated there are more than 20K pages.
The Justice Department withheld this sliver of information from an FBI 302 from Mueller's probe it just turned over to me citing b7a, which is ongoing investigation.
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25 Nov
Some Michael Flynn and Trump memories courtesy of FBI 302s we obtained via #FOIA

That time Donald Trump was very upset with Michael Flynn in 2017.

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Trump promised Michael Flynn a "good recommendation" after he was fired

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Not #FOIA
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9 Nov
An amazing email that took me 7 yrs to pry out of GTMO via #FOIA

In Jan 2013, a guard in a watchtower shot non lethal rounds at detainees. The watchtower was referred to as "Shotgun Towers." Guards were told not to say that b/c it could end up on the internet

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This email was clearly overclassified. There is nothing in it that would raise to the level of SECRET/NOFORN. It's just that it was politically sensitive as the email states and Guantanamo brass feared blowback
I wrote about this incident, which preceded a mass hunger strike at Guantanamo in 2013.

vice.com/en/article/pa4…
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