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7 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Congressional subpoena power was agreed in the first Congress by a committee led by James Madison that also included constitutional signatory Roger Sherman
The first congressional subpoena sgp.fas.org/crs/secrecy/RL… Image
It's not as if Republicans are unaware of congressional subpoena powers - eg ... oversight.house.gov/news/press-rel… Image
It's not unprecedented either for Congress to use its subpoena powers to seek personal and private messages theguardian.com/us-news/2015/m… Image

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7 Dec
On this anniversary of Pearl Harbor, an anecdote from Max Hastings' "Overlord":

Before DDay, a US officer briefed a roomful of Poles on modern war tactics. The Poles, veterans of 5 years of combat, listened dutifully. 1/x
Afterward, a Pole with a healed gash across his face, approached the American lecturer. “You omitted the most important lesson of all."

“What’s that?” asked the American.

The Pole replied: “Be the stronger one.”

2/x
Until this date, 80 years ago, there was uncertainty about how the Second World War would end. After this date, it was only a question of when - and how much suffering until the inevitable arrived. 3/x
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5 Dec
New book by Mark Meadows states that Trump ordered McDonald's during his hospitalization for COVID dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… 1/x
The Daily Mail reproduces this graphic of a "typical" Trump McDonalds order 2/x
Anti-vaxxers often jeer that only the morbidly obese need fear COVID. What they overlook is ... 3/x
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29 Nov
The US is a very legalistic society. When confronted with a scandal - eg a major-party candidate for president building his campaign on assistance from the espionage agencies of a hostile foreign government - Americans instinctively look to the criminal law for help. But ...
... not every wrong thing is a crime, and even many things that might be crime cannot be proven in ways that would justify a federal criminal indictment.

That was Mueller obstacle 1.
And even when there are suspicions of crimes in a politician's past - tax evasion, money laundering - federal practice demands a strong specific indication of wrongdoing to justify an investigation. That was Mueller obstacle 2.
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27 Nov
"What do you know about this story of Dr Fauci cutting the vocal cords out of beagles and leaving them" - the beagles - "to be eaten alive by sand flies?"

The question arose at a dinner recently. It sounded crazy, but I quickly discovered that the allegation had been spread by
Senator Ted Cruz Gov Ron DeSantis facebook.com/RonDeSantisFlo… and of course the ultra-online Donald Trump Jr. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
With that roster of names endorsing the story, it probably won't greatly surprise you to hear that the story was arrant bullshit. politifact.com/article/2021/o…
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26 Nov
Here's the article that has so upset the pro-Trump tweeters and accompanying bots, ICYMI yesterday
Three months into their Watergate reporting in 1972, Woodward & Bernstein slipped up. They reported that Nixon campaign treasurer Hugh Sloan *had told a grand jury* that top Nixon aide HR Haldeman had approval over the secret fund that paid the burglars. This was not true. 1/x
Or rather, it was not exactly true. There was a secret fund. HR Haldeman did have approval rights. But Sloan had not (yet) testified to that effect to the grand jury - he had just privately confirmed the news to the two reporters. So ... an error. 2/x
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23 Nov
Thread coming ... 1/x
Noncitizen voting was quite common in 19th century America, especially on the frontier. As this short history comments: "Many new states and territories used alien suffrage as an incentive to attract settlers." 2/x nypl.org/sites/default/…
The rules on noncitizen voting tightened in the late 19th and early 20th century, as Alexander Keyssar describes in his history of voting rights in the US 3/x ash.harvard.edu/publications/r…
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