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16 Jul, 7 tweets, 2 min read
and what did these generals do to stop Obama admin from regime change operations against Libya, Syria, Yemen. Did they ask why Obama admin was "so intent on attacking Syria"? Libya? Yemen? Why did generals sabotage Trump attempt to exit Syria?
what does New Yorker article archive.is/vlAuF actually show? That Trump had one set of advisers that were anti-Iran zealots and another set of advisers who weren't. Milley says that his belief was that "Trump did not want a war". Nor did Trump start one.
2/ Milley said that Trump "kept pushing for a missile strike in response to various provocations against U.S. interests in the region". I.e. exactly as Biden did on Feb 21 and again in June and what Trump had done in Jan 2020 cnn.com/2021/02/26/pol… Image
3/ article says that key Trump advisers advised Trump not to take such action in transition period, so he left it for new administration. Did dishonest Milley oppose such strikes by Biden admin for reasons that he opposed during transition? If not, why not?
4/ that Trump left such a decision for incoming administration is to his credit, not discredit. During transition, Obama admin did whatever it could to sabotage incoming administration, including unprecedented inclusion of Steele dossier fraud in intel assessment, then leak.
5/ plus numerous other actions intended to sabotage incoming administration.

Article says that Trump agreed that it was "too late" for his admin to strike Iran. Seems like prudent decision that is praiseworthy, rather than Milley's mean girl whispering.
6/ BTW I was very critical of these bombing strikes by BOTH Trump and Biden. In practice, were attacks on units of Iraqi military fighting ISIS on Iraq-Syria border, nowhere near the supposed provocations. I thought that the assassination of Soleimani, Mohandi was a crime.

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19 Jul
The impact of the descent into extremism of French Revolution in July 1793 reverberates today in Toronto in the re-naming of a major city street (Dundas St.) In April 1793, Henry Dundas had sponsored a bill to end slave trade in British empire. Today Dundas is being canceled Image
2/ for supposedly prolonging slave trade for decades. In fact, Dundas' 1793 bill, amended to put an end date of 1796 instead of 1800, was first bill passed in Commons to end slave TRADE (slavery already illegal in Britain itself), but defeated in Lords.
3/ an amendment for an earlier end date was defeated in Commons. Yet today's ahistorical partisans somehow blame Dundas for failure to end slave trade in April 1793. When issue was raised again in 1796, Britain was embroiled in war with revolutionary France.
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14 Jul
A new thread on Curveball and how he was eventually exposed as a fabricator.

In theory, source validation (as even FBI James Baker claimed) attempts to validate whether source was in location of supposed meeting or made alleged telephone call, or, as here, presence at accident
2/ a few analysts were suspicious of Curveball prior to Powell's notorious speech to UN and subsequent Iraq invastion, but suspicions ignored. After invasion, none of the project designers named by Curveball knew who he was, contradicting narrative that Curveball part of program
3/ in Sept 2003, inconsistencies began to accumulate. Curveball had claimed to be part of bioweapon program that began in 1995, but it turned out that Curveball had been fired in 1995 and could not have been part of any supposed program.
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14 Jul
@BarryMeier @tafrank @praddenkeefe @BarryMeier complains that @HansMahncke, @FOOL_NELSON, @walkafyre and me are not "not bound by the kind of rules of engagement that journalists are bound by". Instead of being stenographers for leaks from intel agencies, like "journalists" from NYT and WP, we remorselessly
@BarryMeier @tafrank @praddenkeefe @HansMahncke @FOOL_NELSON @walkafyre 2/ examine original documents. We do not shrug when documents are redacted, but, using deep knowledge of the subject matter and ingenuity, interpolate and interpret the documents so that their story is revealed and not concealed.
@BarryMeier @tafrank @praddenkeefe @HansMahncke @FOOL_NELSON @walkafyre 3/ instead of advocating for secrecy and suppression of documents and concealing identity of fabricators like Danchenko and Steele, we believe in transparency and cleansing power of sunshine. Definitely not NYT "journalism", which whinged about identification of Danchenko
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11 Jul
the report of the WMD Commission in March 2005 is important to read (or re-read) in light of our present knowledge that Danchenko/Steele fabricated Steele dossier. fas.org/irp/offdocs/wm…
2/ perhaps their most important concern was that CIA intelligence officials "failed to convey to policymakers new information casting serious doubt on the reliability of a human intelligence
source known as Curveball", whose information was relied on in intel assessment.
3/ the WMD Commission regretted that "once again", the intel community "failed to give policymakers a full understanding of the frailties of the intelligence on which they were relying."
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9 Jul
one of the big mistakes by everyone in connection with Steele dossier is to think in terms of LeCarre's Cold War epics, when the reality is LeCarre's Tailor of Panama. Read this excerpt.
2/ Danchenko corresponds to Harry, the Tailor of Panama, who is recruited by Osnard, an ambitious and greedy idiot in UK spy agency. Harry needed money. Like Danchenko. Harry had no sources, so he made them up. Transforming nobodies into "sources", then making up stories.
3/ the plot line of Tailor of Panama is a re-make of Graham Greene's 1959 novella Our Man in Havana, another "spy" recruited by UK spy agency who had no sources, so he made everything up.
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8 Jul
@KeillerDon I looked at the 700 million year ago Snowball Earth theory about 15 years ago and it seemed very sketchy to me. Some Canadian geologists (who are very experienced in glacial geology) argued that formations more likely to be flood related than glacier related.
@KeillerDon 2/ a key proponent of Snowball Earth theory was Mann's friend, Richard Alley. I didn't try to parse relative merits of two theories, but, if I had to choose, would pick the Canadian geologists. If geological formations can be explained without glaciers,
@KeillerDon 3/ then physics problem of trying to explain entry into and exit from Proterozoic Snowball Earth become moot.
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