Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. This was no run-of-the-mill leak. The day after Sally Yates told McGahn about Flynn, the White House pushed out the first Muslim ban to insure that the only person who could out Mike Flynn would have to resign. In three day she was gone and their secret was safe.

https://twitter.com/TimInHonolulu/status/1403157626058199041

2. Then 13 days later the @washingtonpost published the story about the Flynn-Kislyak calls and in two days Flynn was gone. At the time I reported that I suspected the leak came from a certain non-FVEY intelligence service. I suspected an investigation would go nowhere.

3. The FISA leak I'm waiting to see is Giuliani's. He exposed the Cross Fire Hurrican FISA right before the election. The DOJ National Security Division career people will be able to say what happened on their watch on Flynn. Leaking a FISA can get you a long jail term.

4. Yates must have briefed the intel committee before she was fired.

The reason they call it Special "Compartmented" Information is they limit and record who has access to it. They know which @washingtonpost reporter was on the Flynn Kislyak story and they would want

5. to match the meta data. It's not surprising that they did it. That they are making this public is what is surprising to me. They may have gone outside of a FISA and used Stored Communications Act order. I think that has a provision for eventual notice. Not FISA.

6. And if you don't think Congress gets caught up in our spy hunts, you might want to review Lindsey Graham's epiphany in the 2017 FISA Section 702 reauthorization hearing where he leaned that the leaders get to know what the spooks have on him, but not poor old Lindsey.

7. It was clever they way this story was pushed out, immediately amplified by @maddow who already called Merrick Galand out for what Sessions and Barr did even though he likely authorized the disclosure. Is she being manipulated by clever muckrakers who want to

8. torpedo the Galand DOJ? I wonder who would do such a thing?

9. I'll predict that the lefty posse hell bent on the investigation that will likely distract the DOJ from pursuing the Jan 6 attackers but may come up with the source of the leak. The person who got rid of Mike Flynn. Nice work nitwits.