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17 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The revelation that the data Manafort gave to Kilimnik ended up with Russian intelligence not only confirms what was suspected but underscores that substantial gaps must still be filled in our understanding of Trump-Russia collusion and associated crimes.
Information has clearly be suppressed & very likely by multiple actors within the Trump Administration. It is only now that they are gone can a real honest investigation take place and I hope the Biden team and DoJ recognize that justice and our national security demand it does.
Mueller was operating with one hand tied behind his back. Congressional investigations were operating with both hands tied behind their back & with a blindfold over one eye. We have never had a full, fair investigation tapping all the resources of the USG into what happened.
The time for a real investigation into the full extent & real nature of the Trump campaign's Russia ties, the cover-up & obstruction that followed & the security breaches & worse that took place as a consequence of it all is now. And the time for accountability must then follow.

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17 Apr
If the United States has been unable to defeat the Taliban or produce stability in Afghanistan after 20 years of seeking to impose our will, why do people think we can or should be able to after we recognize our failure and leave?
Our problem in Afghanistan was the mission was not well-defined or realistic. It was the latest in a long line of examples of superpower hubris. Joe Biden realized that long ago and tried to make the case to President Obama who did not accept his arguments back in 2009.
Biden is doing what should have been done long ago by pulling out. He recognizes that our experience with having a small force there for years proves that cannot advance us toward what was impossible to achieve when we had a big force there.
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13 Apr
Biden is right to do this and the timing is reasonable. We must be prepared for unhappy outcomes in Afghanistan, but those were always likely. Our national interests can be better protected by diplomacy and forces deployed elsewhere.
It is worth remembering that Biden was right about Afghanistan in 2009, arguing against the doubling down ultimately embraced by Obama. The subsequent cost to us has produced very limited material advancement of our interests.
Once we pull out, we must do what we can via multilateral mechanisms to seek to protect the people of Afghanistan, to promote democracy, to advance and defend women's rights and to ensure the country does not again become a terrorist haven.
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12 Apr
Larry Summers: ‘I’m concerned that what is being done is substantially excessive’ ft.com/content/380ea8… via @financialtimes
Of course, his analysis implies he knows better than Yellen or Powell or the WH economic team, that he understands the correlation between stimulus and inflation in a way not supported by data, and that Biden's plan is entirely targeted toward COVID relief.
The American Jobs Plan is also about rebuilding infrastructure that deficit hawks like Summers let degrade, about enhancing US competitiveness in the future, about creating jobs and about addressing other deficiencies.
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4 Apr
I don't have much of a brain for religion. It just doesn't really register with me. So a couple years ago when my wife and I were wandering around Jerusalem and we happened to go into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre it did not really register with me that it was Easter.
After wandering through the church, we got to the main rotunda and almost immediately it began filling with people. Soon a choir began to sing and then we were swept into a group that was walking in circles around the aedicule which supposedly contains the tomb of Jesus.
The three different sects that have rights to the church were represented--Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and Armenian Apostolic--as well as Coptic Orthodox and others. Each had a different ritual, there were women ululating and prayers could be heard in a dozen languages.
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21 Mar
Perhaps a little context is in order. The prior administration's policies serially violated human rights and were profoundly cruel. When this administration ended those policies it was inevitable that immigrants seeking hope in the US would return to the border.
This administration's "crisis" is that it is more humane and decent than its predecessors, acting more consistently with international and domestic law. It is a direct result of doing the right thing in the right way. And they are actively seeking to manage it.
Ascribing blame, as the MTP framing does, is deeply misleading. Is this an issue requiring urgent action? Yes. But it is also a situation created by the repugnant behavior of the last administration and the on-going aspiration so many have to come to America.
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20 Mar
The problem isn't that Larry Summers was right once and is wrong now. The problem is that so many people told him he was right when he was wrong before that he thinks that he remains right even though he is still wrong now.
He (and all of us in the self-described Democratic "center") were part of the problem. Our policies contributed to inequality, to the hollowing out of the middle class, to the worsening plight of the poorest, and thereby to the weakening of the US economy.
The rationale was markets know best. But not only do markets lack consciences (and would leave the vulnerable by the roadside to die) they turn attention away from the right metrics by which to judge economic progress.
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