1. I've never seen this account before today and suddenly a long thread hits my timeline because so many of my Twitter colleagues follow it. My quick analysis of this account tells me it's likely a CCP account. May be Russian but it's slick state level propaganda IMO. 
2. First the hook. The thread goes to lengths to describe what a great hero of democracy Merrick Garland is and how we should block anyone who says otherwise. I must admit, the former DOJ attorneys who are posting about Garland often don't match my view but I still value their
3. thoughts but this Hong Kong based marketing guy says to block them. Then as the thread progresses the account claims to have been on team Garland for a long time citing investigations that happened before Garland was even chosen but a quick look at his timeline showed
4. that the first Garland reference I could find was about a month ago. The account timeline appears to have been creating a basis for today's drop. So what's the big deal? Why do I make this as state-level propaganda? The hook was, "Isn't Garland great" but the line and sinker
5. are that somehow Garland's Bannon press release proves that there is massive corruption at the DOJ. Did you spot that? We know that #45 political appointees did all sorts of bad things at DOJ. But the terms that this account focuses on are "since" and "employee." It's clumsy
6. and nearly a non-sequitur, but the point appears to be to convince the Garland concerned accounts now been put at ease by Bannon's charges that there remains a cabal of corruption at @TheJusticeDept. No basis for that other than the tortured reading of "since" and "employee."
7. And just so I'm clear, I would interpret the term "employee" in this context to mean "career justice" in contrast to "political appointees" who we have seen were not on the same mission as career DOJ. But this account wanted you to be left with the idea, a little
8. seed, that DOJ under Garland is corrupt. And if you were left with that thought, you might want to go back to the post to see where he makes the leap from fact to fiction. This is very slick propaganda IMO and the person posting this is who you should consider blocking.
9. Not the people who have worked at DOJ and are concerned about its direction. And how do I know so much about how the DOJ runs? @AnthonyColeyDOJ
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