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Mar 10 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
1/TICKET FOR FLASHING HEADLIGHTS, SERIOUSLY?

I will be appearing in Montgomery County Maryland District Court Monday afternoon to represent driver ticketed by @MDSP for flashing headlights at car that dangerously cut them off.

Interesting news story! @wamu885 @WTOP @semelm
2/I've been down this route before. In 2009, I was ticketed for flashing my headlights at Montgomery County speed trap. I challenged ticket as being unconstitutional & lawful.

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
3/Ticket was dismissed. @mcpnews admitted my actions were lawful. Then Police Chief #TomManger (now @CapitolPolice Chief) personally apologized to me, which I accepted as sincere, & I dropped my plan to file lawsuit.

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
4/The ticketing received a lot of local news coverage & @FoxNews covered it nationally.

legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/06/dc…
5/Here is the legal letter I sent to Chief Manger when I was fighting the ticket & about to pursue litigation.

Yes, I was having fun with this! 😂

legaltimes.typepad.com/files/chief-ma…
END/My favorite line in the @washingtonpost article:

"That officer might have picked the wrong guy to ticket".

@Legal_Times @ABAJournal

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Mar 1
NEWS ALERT: @MarkSZaidPC reps more than 2 doz federal #AHI victims & family members. Below is our statement in response to IC Assessment findings issued today.

We already have #FOIA litigation to compel release of report & @ODNIgov must update Court by March 20th.
2/Full statement reads:

"My firm represents more than two dozen federal AHI victims from within the Intelligence, Military, Law Enforcement and Diplomatic communities who experienced incidents domestically and overseas....
3/This also includes minor children of our dedicated workforce who are also victims of these AHIs. Our representation started a decade ago.

The latest U.S. intelligence assessment lacks transparency and we continue to question the accuracy of the alleged findings....
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Jan 5
NEWS ALERT:

We just filed new fed lawsuit against #Trump & two criminal defs for wrongful death of @CapitolPolice Ofc #BrianSicknick arising from #January6th insurrection/coup attempt. #Accountability

Our legal team is: @PhilAndonianEsq @mattkaiser @noahbrozinsky @BradMossEsq
Official media release:
Any recovery from this lawsuit by Officer #BrianSicknick's estate, represented by longtime partner #SandraGarza, for his wrongful death due to #January6th is planned to be donated to charity.
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Dec 23, 2022
1/Where is rest of #January6thReport?

Trump & his fellow insurrectionist leaders deserved condemnation & criminal referral for their actions/inactions that led to #January6th riots.

But we expected this Committee to evaluate everything that contributed to that undemocratic day.
2/@January6thCmte had daunting task. Attacked relentlessly bc of politics. @HouseGOP declined involvement to its discredit. Two @GOP Members @RepLizCheney @RepKinzinger served to their credit & political downfall (short-term at least).

Entire effort should have been nonpartisan.
3/But we - Americans - deserved to also learn abt federal govt shortcomings & why we were not better prepared for events like #January6th. This was weak link in armor & democracy is only as strong as weakest link.

Where does blame lie all around?
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Dec 15, 2022
1/It is always positive when greater transparency occurs so citizenry can learn more abt our govt & history. I have worked to secure release of #JFKAssassination docs for 30+ yrs.

Reading these records is truly fascinating window into past. But no one should expect "smoking gun"
2/What was released today provides researchers & historians fodder to conduct countless months of analysis. While nothing will move needle on what transpired on Nov 22, 1963, small nuggets will emerge to help put pieces of puzzle together so that time period is better understood.
3/@USNatArchives release also reveals problems that plague declassification: inconsistency. For example, record #104-10065-10359 contains list of @CIA officers who served in Moscow 1959-1963: 
archives.gov/files/research…
Name of officer who served from 26 Jun - 14 Dec 62 is redacted.
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Dec 11, 2022
Dec 21st will be 34 years. I remember day vividly & I've rep'd victims' families for nearly 30 years. I applaud US dedication to accountability but true justice will ultimately require US/UK to reveal all that it knows. Too many past opportunities missed. nyti.ms/3Br8Vmz
Here is op-ed I penned for @thedailybeast for #PanAm103 30th anniversary.

thedailybeast.com/30-years-after…
Here is op-ed I penned for 25th anniversary of #PanAm103 for @FoxNews.

Sadly remarkably similar to the one I would write 5 years later.

foxnews.com/opinion/25-yea…
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Dec 8, 2022
1/I am saddened to learn of the death of my friend #DavidLifton (1939-2022) whose #JFKassassination book "Best Evidence" caused quite the stir when it was published in 1981. Image
2/David was the 1st JFK author I got to know almost 40 years ago when I called him out of the blue while still in HS. While I do not subscribe to David's theories, I always found him to be friendly and easy to get along with and we stayed in contact throughout all these years.
3/I even once went to the @USNatArchives on his behalf to view the original journal of #LeeHarveyOswald which he kept while in the Soviet Union. It was quite an experience to handle the document in person and it required wearing white gloves!
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