Some of the reporting in this is astonishing, and one has to wonder if Trump's plan to install Patel as CIA dep director/acting director in December was linked to the advice he was getting on how to stage a coup washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
We would have been in such a bad place if these people had not been driven from power. We were very lucky in November and that the Jan. 6 coup attempt failed. These people need to be held accountable so this never happens again washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
How does this relate to Trump's efforts at the time to overturn the election, one wonders
"On Dec. 12, while Trump was attending the Army-Navy football game, he discussed with top aides a sensitive future assignment for Patel, one person recalled." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Looking at the WH pool reports from Trump's travel to the Army Navy game on Dec. 12. "POTUS was followed by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, WH personnel director John McEntee, & DNI John Ratcliffe (who was also seen milling about outside the South Portico shortly before
"the president emerged)."...
"POTUS arrives on the field at 14:59...
He walks up to about halfway line with officers from the two services on either side. also acting Defense Sec Miller, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Milley."
Further 12/12 WH pool reports: "With about 3 min left in the first quarter, POTUS took off mask & descended stairs heading inside the stadium, as if to go to a suite."...
"POTUS left his seat in Navy sec. at 16:09...We are leaving about an hour earlier than schedule on guidance
So whoever Trump discussed his plans for Patel with at the Army Navy game, he then leaves the game an hour earlier than scheduled, before half time. Flies back to WH. No one comes back to talk to press on plane. Doesn't say anything to press upon arrival at WH.
In an interview Patel gave in Feb. that Ignatius references, he expresses frustration that a report he helped write was not declassified before Trump left office. But the piece quotes from the doc Patel has been complaining is still classified.
The suggestion seems to be that that interview/article may be linked to the DOJ probe Ignatius reports.
1 of the most chilling things about the astonishing Ignatius piece today on Trump Patel machinations is that he reported an awful lot of what we now understand as the coup plot it links to back on Dec. 26, a couple wks before Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Ignatius, 12/26: “Not to be alarmist, but we should recognize that the US will be in the danger zone until the formal certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on Jan. 6, because potential domestic and foreign turmoil could give Pres. Trump an excuse to cling to power.”
he did not bury the lede. paragraph 2. again, dec. 26. translation. Republicans think there is a Trump coup plot to overturn the election. The big showdown is Jan. 6. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Read this. Ignatius Dec. 26. How could he call it almost to the letter, and the FBI and DHS etc claim not to know? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Ignatius Dec. 26 clearly already had been told Patel was abruptly brought back to Washington in early Dec. as part of a seeming potential coup like plot, involving him being shoehorned in to take over CIA or FBI washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
and another presumed loyalist was seemingly positioned to take control of NSA—whether or not he knew that was the plan. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Ignatius on Dec. 26 foretold many elements of Trump coup plot, and that the showdown would occur on Jan. 6. He also predicted it would not succeed. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
So much of what Ignatius reported in his astonishing Patel piece today, he had already reported Dec. 26, on a seeming Trump coup plot that would erupt on Jan. 6. Ignatius reported it in the WashPost. How did the FBI & other law enforcement and intel agencies miss the threat?
“Republicans...described a multifaceted campaign by die-hard Trump supporters to use disruptions at home and perhaps threats abroad to advance his interests. The big showdown is the Jan. 6 gathering of both houses of Congress” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
I worry if all the DOJ/FBI focus and resources used in prosecuting the cases of the 800 people who broke into the Capitol Jan. 6 may distract from accountability for the wider coup plot that used them
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can someone do an analysis of the language in the flyer to identify which outside group apparently drafted the proposal for the white supremacist caucus that Greene seems to be backing away from?
🧵”PM Andrej Babis said Czech authorities had ‘clear evidence’ linking GRU officers to an explosion in an ammunition warehouse in 2014 which left two people dead.
‘We have good reason to suspect the involvement of GRU officers from unit 29155 in the explosion at the ammunition
EU official said he expects the talks in Vienna to go on for a few more days. And then he thinks two most relevant delegations will go back home to consult capitals for further instructions. We are reaching a point when decision capacity is back to the capitals.
He said of the apparent attack on Natanz and subsequent Iran decision to start 60% enrichment between the talks last week and this week: So these two issues make the negotiations a bit more difficult, but at the same time make it more urgent and important.
EU official: not exactly aware of how far along they are, but "the one thing is that we are closer than last week. This is definitely the case."
Biden says his conversation with Putin earlier this week was candid and respectful.
Despite all the problems and antagonisms, Biden making a point to demonstrate a lot of respect for Russia as a nation and for the Russian people in his remarks.
Biden: The US not looking to kick off a cycle of escalation with Russia
“Beute — whose ordeal triggered some of the events that followed — said he believes fallout from the case could force a reckoning for the lax oversight and clubby nature of Florida’s political system.”
“Emails from 2018 show that Greenberg agreed to put his name on an op-ed, which aides to Gaetz had been circulating among themselves, defending the congressman for inviting a Holocaust denier to Trump’s State of the Union address that year.” washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
So satisfying and rare to see the little guy smeared by dirty trickster scumbags get justice for once
Both the Iran FM, directly, and the US, tacitly/indirectly, linked suspected suspected sabotage op to the diplomatic track to revive the Iran deal gathering momentum: diplomatic.substack.com/p/us-disowning…
On Wednesday—a day after the strategic dialogue with the Israelis—the Biden admin plans to resume Iran nuclear talks in Vienna. “Our focus is, of course, on the diplomatic path forward,” the White House’s Psaki said. “So that’s where our focus is.” diplomatic.substack.com/p/us-disowning…