1/ This is a big deal.
CNN Scoop (by @kpolantz @ZcohenCNN), which I just discussed on @OutFrontCNN with @ErinBurnett
"[Kash] Patel spent several hours" before DC grand jury on MAL investigation.
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cnn.com/2022/10/20/pol…
CNN Scoop (by @kpolantz @ZcohenCNN), which I just discussed on @OutFrontCNN with @ErinBurnett
"[Kash] Patel spent several hours" before DC grand jury on MAL investigation.
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cnn.com/2022/10/20/pol…
2. A key question I'd bet federal prosecutors asked Patel:
Were you acting as an agent of, or in concert with, Donald J. Trump when you described, repeatedly, Trump's plan to publicly disseminate the documents.
Reupping this analysis I wrote.
justsecurity.org/82723/trump-as…
Were you acting as an agent of, or in concert with, Donald J. Trump when you described, repeatedly, Trump's plan to publicly disseminate the documents.
Reupping this analysis I wrote.
justsecurity.org/82723/trump-as…
3. That @just_security article built off of the scoop published by @abcnews (@wsteaks @alex_mallin
@KFaulders)
abcnews.go.com/US/weeks-mar-l…
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@KFaulders)
abcnews.go.com/US/weeks-mar-l…
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4. Another key question I'd bet prosecutors asked Patel:
You have sometimes suggested you may have had access to MAL documents, that you knew their content.
Did you?
If the answer is yes, it will get Trump into a huge new problem for dissemination of national defense info.
You have sometimes suggested you may have had access to MAL documents, that you knew their content.
Did you?
If the answer is yes, it will get Trump into a huge new problem for dissemination of national defense info.
5. Another key line of questions prosecutors will ask Patel:
What's this nonsense about you being present when Trump magically verbally declassified documents or had a standing order to do so?
What @AWeissmann_ says here is, of course, spot on.👇
What's this nonsense about you being present when Trump magically verbally declassified documents or had a standing order to do so?
What @AWeissmann_ says here is, of course, spot on.👇
https://twitter.com/aweissmann_/status/1583239840094892032?s=12
6. Patel going before grand jury is also, as @AWeissmann_ says, "shows Trump is target and DOJ is heading toward indictment."
That dovetails with what I discussed on @OutFrontCNN. Patel is the inner, inner circle for Trump when it comes to the MAL investigation.
That dovetails with what I discussed on @OutFrontCNN. Patel is the inner, inner circle for Trump when it comes to the MAL investigation.
7. Note the location of that federal grand jury:
The District of Columbia.
Goes to where DOJ is most likely to bring an indictment (not in Florida).
Read @tribelaw, Philip A Lacovara and Dennis Aftergut's analysis for why that's the right call.
justsecurity.org/82962/when-whe…
The District of Columbia.
Goes to where DOJ is most likely to bring an indictment (not in Florida).
Read @tribelaw, Philip A Lacovara and Dennis Aftergut's analysis for why that's the right call.
justsecurity.org/82962/when-whe…
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