🧵@mikememoli reports: In a letter to the National Archives, WH counsel Dana Remus rejected Trump’s attorneys' attempt to withhold documents requested by the House Select Comm. “Pres. Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests
“of the United States, and therefore is not justified as to any of the documents.”
“These are unique and extraordinary circumstances,” Remus added. “Congress is examining an assault on our Constitution and democratic institutions provoked and fanned by those sworn to protect them
“& the conduct under investigation extends far beyond typical deliberations concerning the proper discharge of the President’s constitutional responsibilities. The constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield, from Congress or the public,
“information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the Constitution itself.” nbcnews.com/politics/white…

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8 Oct
This was an incredibly illuminating Fresh Air interview with @mariaressa about propaganda and disinformation and populist authoritarianism npr.org/2021/01/06/953…
Ressa: “We were the canary in the coal mine … we are a former colony of the United States, a protectorate. We also speak English. This is a country where a lot of the tactics, digital tactics, are tested….” npr.org/2021/01/06/953…
This part of the interview really resonated: “when you're in a battle for facts, journalism is activism. And that's a big shift because I grew up a traditional journalist...&I actually realized in this day and age, you have to call it. You have to say a lie is a lie…”
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28 Sep
🧵Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of Senate Armed Services Comm., noted to reporters on a call tonight that the committee held only one hearing on Afghanistan all last year, the year the Trump admin struck the deal with the Taliban to pull all US troops out of Afghanistan
By contrast, they have held 5 hearings on Afghanistan this year (since Ds took control of Senate). He noted a great deal of the hearing today was spent on whether we should have left Afghanistan at all. He thought that was a question we should have been asking a year ago
after the Doha agreement committed all US troops to leave by May 2021. The Armed Serv. comm has had 5 hearings on Afghanistan this year, & 1 last year, King said. Important context. The question of should we have left at all dominated the meeting this morning. But SASC wasn’t
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28 Sep
Sen. King: this committee never had a hearing on decision to withdraw from afghanistan made (by trump admin) in Feb. 2020.
and when Republicans controlled the committee
Tillis (I think) establishes Taliban was not living up to deal during the Trump admin when Trump drew down anyhow and pressed for the release of 5000 prisoners, then says it was up to Biden not to stick with the deal
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27 Sep
New from me: Diplomats express rising pessimism on prospects for reviving nuclear pact as Iran is coy on when it will return to talks and gives no positive answer on P5+1 position it pick up where talks left off
diplomatic.substack.com/p/growing-gloo…
US and European officials seemed more gloomy on Iran at the end of UNGA high level week than earlier in the week. “I believe that increasing pessimism is justified,” a European official involved in the talks told me. diplomatic.substack.com/p/growing-gloo…
“Nothing that’s happened…has made us more optimistic,” a senior US diplomat said. “The absence of a positive answer leads us to be concerned that they intend to come up with a new framework, or new concerns or new demands.” diplomatic.substack.com/p/growing-gloo…
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27 Sep
Senior State Dept official, in call w/journalists, says at least 85 US citizens & 79 legal permanent residents have departed Afghanistan with US govt assistance since Aug. 31. An additional number of US citizens & LPRs have departed Afghanistan in last month on private charters
He said they have another group of approximately 100 US citizens and LPRs ready to go in near future.
He said 2 biggest constraints to departures remain: *Taliban unpredictability regarding who is permitted to depart; *Absence of regular air service.
'Here at main state & embassies around region, many people continue to work this problem every day in pretty much every time zone'
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24 Sep
🧵Iran FM Amir-Abdollahian, speaking to journalists in NY today, did not rule out sitting with the US: as far as the govt of US is concerned, the standard for us will be to watch the actions of US officials, and judge based on the actions taken by Pres. Biden, that will be the
basis on which we will formwule our decisions. not only based on the paradoxical statements and words we keep receiving.
He raised a few times Iran not able to access its own money to buy covid vaccine.
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