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Mar 11 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
1/BREAKING NEWS:

Today, EDVA Fed Judge allowed lawsuit against warlord #KhalifaHifter (or #Haftar) to continue. Last Nov case was stayed pending Dec 2021 #Libyan elections that never occurred & likely will not until 2023.

#Hifter will now be deposed.

nbcnews.com/news/world/fam…
2/Parties have until June 2022 to complete discovery & pre-trial conf will take place right after.

#Hifter also ORDERED to reimburse us for costs of two canceled depositions w/i 14 days or else default will be entered & damages hearing will occur ex parte (w/o him).
3/#Hifter is represented by #JesseBinnall who also reps #Trump & previously worked w/disgraced attny #SydneyPowell.

thedailybeast.com/how-libyas-civ…
4/Earlier thread on our lawsuit can be found here:

END/Justice will continue to be pursued for war crime victims who have innocently suffered in #Libya at hands of #Hifter, a USCIT who previously worked w/@CIA .

nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/…
Much thanks to my co-counsel @fhhfirm & @MattJury_Law.
lawandcrime.com/high-profile/f…

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1/Important new @DHSOIG report regarding insurrectionist events of #January6th:

"I&A identified specific threat information related to the
events on January 6, 2021, but did not issue any
intelligence products about these threats until January 8, 2021."

oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
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"I&A was unable to provide its many state, local, and Federal partners with timely, actionable, and predictive intelligence."
3/Who was in charge of DHS I&A on #January6th:

#JosephMaher

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nytimes.com/2021/08/11/us/…
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1/My experience with the Presidential Records Act.

About 15 years ago I was bidding on this item at auction. It was described as: "Harry S. Truman Typed Letter Signed and Original Top Secret Telegram". Docs were from 1949 & dealt w/atomic energy issues & @CIA.

I needed it! Image
2/But how could there be original Top Secret doc for sale? Would be illegal to possess. Except bottom right corner has original declassification stamp from @USNatArchives that doc was declassified in 1995.

What? Why isn't this at NARA then?
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1/Today we dismissed former Secretary of Defense #MarkEsper's prepublication classification review lawsuit against @DeptofDefense.

We successfully ensured this unvarnished account of his tenure in Trump's Admin will be published on schedule in May 2022.
2/You can advance order the book A Sacred Oath here:

amazon.com/Sacred-Oath-Me…
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"This case presented a prepublication classification review challenge of a manuscript under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that was pursued by the highest-ranking official – a former Secretary of Defense – to ever file this type of lawsuit...
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2/We watched in horror time & time again as we heard words "Challenger, go at throttle up".
3/I was freshman at @UofR & had just come out of POLSCI class abt 15 minutes aft disaster. In our student center there used to be large screen television. Dozens of students surrounded the tv watching in silence.

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amzn.to/3FghIHa
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