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26 Jul, 8 tweets, 5 min read
It's a true honor to team up with the brilliant @BarbMcQuade and @JoyceWhiteVance on this.

Just published: "Questions the January 6 Select Committee Should Ask Its Witnesses"

Identifying 35 witnesses
Dozens of questions

<Thread> of some highlights...

justsecurity.org/77588/question…
2. Among many Qs for FBI

Why did Norfolk report warning of “war” at Capitol not get elevated to senior FBI including Wray?

Why did Parler warnings sent to FBI of threats of violence at Capitol not get elevated to Wray?

Does Wray acknowledge the gaps are intelligence failures?
3. Questions that get at specific (not abstract) comparisons between FBI’s handling of #BLM protests and #Jan6.👇
4. Big questions for DHS about what actions it took after alarming threats were raised in a rare national call by heads of fusion centers on Jan. 4.

Thank to reporting from WSJ’s @rachael_levy @djfroschWSJ @sgurman.

wsj.com/articles/capit…
5. Why did Giuliani receive Secret Service protection on Jan. 6?

A little know fact revealed thanks to #FOIA release via @CREWcrew

cc: @WhitneyWReports

justsecurity.org/wp-content/upl…
6. Why did the Department of Defense omit these key events from the Timeline it released in mid-January to the public and then provided to Congress?
7. Very first Q for Miller and #GenMilley:

Miller convened Jan. 4 Cabinet meeting

DOD was aware of threats of violence to Capitol, including militia.

Miller and Milley even asked if permits to gather at Capitol could be revoked.

Law enforcement said they had it under control.
8. This one question (posed to several witnesses) can get to bottom of possible scenario that explains the day’s events.👇

Knowledge of communications in advance of Jan. 6 that referenced prospect, plans, desire to have Trump supporters enter the Capitol to intimidate/disrupt.

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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
19 Jul
Items in @CarolLeonnig @PhilipRucker book that Pentagon OMITTED in #Jan6 Timeline it released to public.

Joint Chiefs' #GenMilley recommended calling up neighboring National Guard units immediately (Army Sec. McCarthy doesn't get around to it until 2.5hrs after Capitol breached)
2. Especially egregious by DoD:

On left (book excerpt):

2:30pm meeting: Milley recommends "send out a call for National Guard reinforcements from the nearby states."

On right (Pentagon's timeline):

2:30pm meeting was about DC Guard.

4:18pm meeting about other states' Guards.
3. Here's another omission in DoD Timeline.

On left (book excerpt):

4:39pm call between Acting SecDef Miller and White House chief of staff Meadows (plus @LeaderMcConnell joins call and sounds furious)

On right (Pentagon's timeline):

Blank, nada, nothing to see here
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15 Jul
Apparent Kremlin documents leak.

“There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material…collected-the document says–from Trump’s earlier ‘non-official visits to Russian Federation territory.’”

theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
2. “There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an ‘impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex.’”
3. “Western intelligence agencies are understood to have been aware of the documents for some months and to have carefully examined them. The papers, seen by the Guardian, seem to represent a serious and highly unusual leak from within the Kremlin.”
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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
12 Jul
<thread>

In a brief to DC Circuit, Biden admin had a choice to make: Whether to recognize due process rights apply to detainees at #Guantanamo.

The answer:

Defense Dept:✅
State Dept:✅
Intelligence agencies:✅

Justice Dept:❌

@charlie_savage reports:
nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/…
2. I just published this analysis

"Had the Justice Department wanted to recognize that the Constitution’s due process clause applies to detainees held at Guantanamo, the brief would have essentially written itself."

The Supreme Court has already spoken.
justsecurity.org/77386/what-the…
3. My analysis is largely doctrinal but I do make a couple policy points:

The Justice Department's position undercuts @JoeBiden and @SecDef's stated goal of closing the prison.

@SenatorDurbin, Chair of Senate Judiciary, letter to Justice Department pointed this out. 👇
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9 Jul
<thread>

@KaraScannell @eorden interviewed attorneys about #Weisselberg.

Very consistent with @AWeissmann_'s analysis @just_security

— pressures Weisselberg to flip to protect his family
— signals to potential cooperators
— indicting org now makes sense
cnn.com/2021/07/09/pol…
2. Former U.S. tax prosecutor @AGOSTINOLAW:

Vance "sent a message that this is an exit ramp for Weisselberg that he should have taken already and, if he doesn't, everything he knows and loves in this world is fair game."
3. Criminal defense attorney @brianeklein:

"Prosecutors don't directly threaten to charge a family member, but it's not uncommon that that implicit threat hangs out there .... It can't be lost on Allen Weisselberg ... ... that family members might ...come under investigation."
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9 Jul
<thread>

After first waves of commentary on #Weisselberg indictment, I sat down with @AWeissmann_.

Several important insights by him:

1. Prosecutors have another option to obtain Weisselberg testimony if he does not cooperate.

justsecurity.org/77369/how-to-r…
2. Weissmann: "After Weisselberg is prosecuted...the prosecution can put him in the grand jury and compel him to testify."

That option is also discussed in #SistersInLaw podcast (@KimberlyEAtkins @JillWineBanks @JoyceWhiteVance @BarbMcQuade)

politicon.com/podcasts/trump…
3. Weissmann details why he thinks (a) the content of the indictment, (b) the prosecutors' requests in the arraignment hearing, and (c) the press conference by defense attorneys points toward a criminal investigation with much more to come.
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6 Jul
Been warning Kremlin bad news for Republicans too. Including interference in 2016 primary.

Now this: “Russian government hackers breached the computer systems of the Republican National Committee last week”

⁦@WilliamTurton⁩ ⁦@JenniferJJacobs⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2. @selectedwisdom Senate testimony in 2017:

Russia’s influence operation was “in full swing during both the [2015-16] Republican and Democratic primary season that may have helped sink the hopes of candidates more hostile to Russian interests long before the field narrowed.”
3. The Intelligence Community assessment in 2017 and Mueller documents also pointed to Kremlin involvement at time GOP primary was in full swing.
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