Redactions newly revealed in this thread. Manafort’s lies about KILIMNICK ran much deeper than previously known. Incredible abuse to have pardoned the henchmen. Failures of Mueller, distortions by Barr, and cowardice of Senate Rs leading us down the path toward the insurrection.
https://twitter.com/dsamuelsohn/status/1396842288274345987
“No collusion” but Manafort appears to have conspired with Putin’s spy to share voter data, campaign strategy, and Ukraine policy and lied about it, and was pardoned for lying about it.
In hindsight, Barr was diabolical in his redactions of the Mueller Report. Delay in getting redactions revealed by court allowed public and especially press to mistake the collusion question as resolved. Concealing the Cambridge Analytica question was a part of this clever scheme
https://twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1396939436936548352
Old enough to remember when Trey Gowdy went on Sunday morning talk show to insist that an email from Cambridge Analytica was one of the 3 key justifications for opening the Special Counsel’s investigations into 2016’s election interference. emptywheel.net/2021/05/24/ste…
Complicated by design. Most folks lost the plot long ago. Reliant on @emptywheel et al to do the work in public as we have witnessed how the government, fifth estate, civil society haven’t been up to the monumental task of unraveling webs of deception. emptywheel.net/2021/05/24/ste…
How to steal an election: Act brazenly employing simple business law obfuscations. Rely on the plot getting lost. Court of public opinion and news editors grow bored of the saga without a blockbuster finale. Meanwhile forensic evidence accumulates. It will be mostly ignored.
Here’s a handy collection of the relevant unredactactable Mueller transcripts in one place…
https://twitter.com/zamaan_qureshi/status/1397269503881457671
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