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21 Oct, 10 tweets, 3 min read

1. “Is there no justice?”: Trump complains GOP ally was indicted for “telling some lies” to the FBI salon.com/2021/10/20/is-…

@Salon

2. TFG is quoted by @Salon saying, "Isn't it terrible that a Republican Congressman from Nebraska just got indicted for possibly telling some lies to investigators about campaign contributions, when half of the United States Congress lied about made up scams."

3. #45 damns Fortenberry with faint praise by saying, in effect, "sure, he may have possibly told lies to investigators." That subtle statement where he agrees that Fortenburry is likely a liar whose lies are bad enough to go to prison for several years was not likely random.

4. Someone once called coincidences "hobgoblins of a little mind" and my little mind is especially susceptible.

Fortenberry was charged for crimes committed in Los Angeles. In the past months, there have been a series of Southern California connected federal campaign related

5. prosecutions. The first one involved a Hawaii prosecution and featured very well-known counsel, Abbe Lowel, and had an LA connection as well as people like Elliot Broidy. Then came Tom Barrack, followed by the Benton - Wead prosecution. And now Fortenberry.

@TheJusticeDept

6. All Southern California hobgoblins. Sufficiently triggered, I looked at @TheJusticeDept release about Fortenberry's indictment and I found a little nugget buried in another press announcement the Fortenberry LA US Attorney announcement just references.

7. The March 2021, Los Angeles US Attorney's office press release regarding non-prosecution agreements related to the foreign donor who Fortenberry is alleged to have lied to the FBI and IRS about, left a little hint. It said that there were four federal elections that were part

@MaddowBlog

8. of the foreign campaign donor scheme. And reported that the case involved "illegal campaign contributions to U.S. presidential and congressional candidates" in the period "between June 2012 and March 2016." Presidential campaign? 🤔 @MaddowBlog
justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/l…

9. I think I know a bit about Merrick Garland. I don't think he wants to be the AG who starts what will be advanced by domestic and foreign propagandists as political prosecutions. But I don't think he will hesitate charging for campaign finance corruption. And if it just happens

10. to break up the #KochNetwork financing cabal that coincidentally is conducted primarily though Southern California fundraising events, then I think that will be a hobgoblin Merrick Garland can live with. 😎

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Multiple sources report @Centcom confirming US base at at-Tanf on the Syria-Jordan-Iraqi border was attacked by drones. I have not seen an official statement. @PentagonPresSec

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Turkey might be coordinating, so I'd keep an eye on N Syria. @DefenseIntel @USSOCOM

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Then the parliamentarian rules it requires 60 and the majority leader calls for a vote to overrule the parliamentarian. That vote can pass on 51 votes and when it does, no more filibuster.

Schumer just changed his vote to no. That gives him the right to call to reconsider. He just moved to reconsider.

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@TheJusticeDept

1. Because the threat posed by TFG & his violent anti-democratic acolytes THE major national security threat and people obstructing Congress are openly planning and another attack, the @TheJusticeDept is not the only government institution with equities regarding what

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2. happens to these conspirators. If @TheJusticeDept Merrick Garland or @AnthonyColeyDOJ think for one moment that they have prosecutorial discretion to allow a second insurrection, @WhiteHouse @WHCOS needs to take a drive over to the 4th floor to set them straight. @PressSec

@USAO_DC

3. The simple fact that @USAO_DC appear to only be charging the foot soldiers and none of the leaders in the insurrection strongly suggests that the process is corrupt, driven by a policy of protecting the planners who openly prepare new and more dangerous violent attacks.

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1. Here's a 10/11 article about new IRS reporting requirement. IMO corrupt GQP will burn it all down to stop this, so I'm watching Quid Pro Quo twins @Sen_JoeManchin @SenatorSinema.

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2. I saw an interview with a Deputy Treasury Secretary where the interviewer kept asking leading questions about how who it targets & he didn't bite. IMO this new reporting will essentially end the ease in which drug & other criminal proceeds are laundered. When they talk about

3. it being targeted at rich people who are not paying their taxes, IMO it includes the mob especially drug cartels that rely on small accounts to perform their very complex money laundering schemes. IMO the reason that they are going for any account with over $600 per year

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14 Oct

https://twitter.com/Sadaf_Kabul/status/1448518366944276483

1. "The freedom-loving Mujahideen and the young resistance fighters of Nahrin city, Baghlan province, today started their armed struggle against the aggressors and foreign occupiers under the leadership of the young commander Ahmad Massoud and Commander Saleh Mohammad Rigistan,

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2. the senior military commander of the National Resistance Front."

I rarely reported on Afghanistan in the nearly 7years of reporting on the war in Syria. I felt there was no foreseeable solution for Afghanistan with the same corrupt elites running the country so

@JoeBiden

3. there would always be fighting. I knew in spring @JoeBiden had to make a call in Afghanistan, so I spent time trying to apply what I learned in 7 years about what wins and what loses wars. By the time Joe announced, I'd concluded there was no US centered militarily solution.

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12 Oct

@StateDept

1. @StateDept @StateDeptSpox on three Afghanistan related meetings:
- A senior US delegation travelled to Doha to meet with Taliban over the weekend. "Candid, practical and pragmatic."

- US & European meeting today with Taliban in Qatar. Counter-terrorism, safe passage, women

2. and girls, etc.

- This morning at 'most-senior levels' G-20 meeting, Biden and Blinken addressed Afghanistan with world leaders.

Addresses the Taliban as a caretaker government.

3. One reporter is raising the fact that conduct conditions are already showing the Taliban behaving badly. Now he's addressing Taliban human rights as "inconsistent with what the Taliban has pledged."

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