1. I'm no #Assad fan. He is a brutal dictator who used chemical weapons on his own people. But we learned what happens if you destroy a nation's defense force after defeating dictators in #Germany and in #Iraq. What comes is either subjugation to a predator like the USSR or chaos
3. our collective morality and best interests hostage while he uses #Finland and #Sweden's accession as means to extort complicity in his crimes. Tell #Erdogan if he attacks Syria every member of @NATO will terminate their #Article5 obligations to #Turkey and cast the neo-
1.#Affidavit: The magistrate judge is likely stalling. If he issues an order to release any part of the affidavit and Govt objects within 14 days, the issue goes to Art III judge to review under the contrary to law or clearly erroneous standard. He likely knows what's coming.
2. FRCP Rule 59. Matters Before a Magistrate Judge
(a) Nondispositive Matters. A district judge may refer to a magistrate judge for determination any matter that does not dispose of a charge or defense. The magistrate judge must promptly conduct the required proceedings
3. and, when appropriate, enter on the record an oral or written order stating the determination. A party may serve and file objections to the order within 14 days after being served with a copy of a written order or after the oral order is stated on the record, or at some other
1. Another massive explosion in Crimea. Reports that it was at or near the airbase at #Dzankoi in the northern end of occupied Crimea. Quick look at Google Earth shows helicopters and possible ordinance storage though it doesn't look very safe.
2. Here is the overhead view showing #Dzankoi's location.
3. This shows the air base and also a large railyard that could also have been a target. Still waiting for more reports.
1. My late brother had a STU-III crypto phone at home and would get after-hours calls from folks like the NSA General Counsel. Janet Reno had made him the person who they called when a National Security statute or Regulation required notification be made to the Attorney General.
2. When he was going through his background check he had to visit the office where the clearances were handled. There was some screwup with the FBI check that confused him with another John M. Hogan who had all kinds of issues in his background. When he went to the clearance
3. office the guy he spoke with turned out to be someone who lived three houses from us when we were little kids in Western Mass. He was too young for my brother to have likely remembered him but remembered his family. I knew him. He was a memory savant.
1. I see all the reports saying today is the 6th anniversary of the liberation of Manbij. I looked at my timeline and can't confirm that is so. I closely covered the battle and it ended when Daesh took hostages and travelled north into Jarabulus.
2. The SDF did not attack lest the hostages be harmed. Here is the Aug. 19, 2016 @BBC report on the #Daesh convoy:
2. ATLANTA — Lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have been told that he is a target of a criminal investigation in Georgia into election interference by Donald J. Trump and his advisers, one of Mr. Giuliani’s lawyers said on Monday.
3. Mr. Giuliani, who spearheaded efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power as his personal lawyer, emerged in recent weeks as a central figure in the inquiry being conducted by Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., which encompasses most of Atlanta.
1. The IC is capable of employing a lot of recourses to deal with a massive theft of TS/SCI material. I think it would likely include more surveillance than just the closed circuit feeds. I once witnessed a high level secret document being handled in the AG's office area
2. that required my family and I leave the room while two of the staff members put the document in a safe. I believe the people who do that work knew the documents were missing from the start and knew that #45 didn't return them. From that moment on, with #45's known
3. assistance from Russian intelligence services in the 2016 election, the IC would stand up a sufficient team to address the threat as soon as it was clear. That's why I feel confident that Garland has intercepts that Joe Biden can declassify so the world can listen to #45