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Jun 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
More thoughts on the Garland piece that came out in WaPo this morning.

Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis are both fantastic reporters. My irritation with the piece was more how I knew it would play on Twitter vs the actual content of the piece. 1/X
The never-Garland folks are going all in demanding that he be fired 🙄 after a 37 count indictment of Donald Trump.

The same people who were *pissed* (rightfully so) that Trump politicized DOJ are mad that Biden didn’t do the same thing.
Did Garland move slower than he should have? Maybe so, but let’s not undercut the work DOJ did to get us to this point; remember, Jack Smith didn’t start from zero — he picked up where DOJ left off and continued to follow the same facts.
Finally, I respect a lot of the voices who are concerned with this piece—and I get it—but I have to (again) stress the mindset of the top officials at DOJ:

If you’re going to be the first one in history to prosecute a POTUS, you better get it right.

Slow is better than failed.

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Apr 26
On my commute today, a podcast was talking about leadership and integrity, and I got to thinking about one of the most impressive examples of both that I’ve ever seen.

Story time with Angry: 1/X
In August of 2011, the remains of the servicemen lost on Extortion 17 were returned to the United States. They were received in the same place they always are — Dover AFB in Delaware.

Obama came out to pay his respects, and a couple things will always stick with me: 2/X
1. He spoke to *every* person there, and I mean everyone. Man, woman, child, serviceman, everyone.

2. He stood at attention for almost an hour — in a full suit in the middle of the summer and inside an aircraft hangar — while 30 caskets were offloaded. 3/X
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Apr 22
That was always going to be the case — this is quite literally how the threat spectrum works. Let’s dig in a little bit.

1/X
Think of the threat spectrum like a sliding scale. It always changes, but it generally ranges from “no threat” on the left (the good side of the scale) to “terrorists have weapons of mass destruction” on the right (bad side of the scale). 2/X
One thing we’ve noticed throughout the years is that the more pressure we put on terrorist groups “over there,” the lower the overall threat spectrum is “over here.”

This makes sense. The more time they spend trying to stay alive, the less time they have to plan attacks. 3/X
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Mar 30
I don’t like to armchair quarterback deadly force encounters, but there’s something we need to talk about.

Police training.

The results were very different, but what we saw in Uvalde and in Tennessee were both examples of just really bad small unit / close quarters tactics. 1/3
In Tennessee, the officers did the right thing: they went straight for (and neutralized) the threat.

They also made entirely too much noise, flagged their buddies with their muzzles about 10 times and committed errors that would have gotten them killed in most situations. 2/3
If we aren’t going to do anything meaningful to stop school shootings — and obviously we aren’t — we should probably at least make sure the people who are tasked with responding to them understand how to effectively respond to them. 3/3
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Feb 9
Politicians are openly discussing a conspiracy theory—that, if true, would amount to an act of war—that was published on Substack.

Folks realize Hersh has been an authoritarian-curious ambulance chaser for a long time, right?
For a pretty good history on Hersh being awful, read this thread:

Also, for those of you who missed it:

Hersh claims he has a source that says the US is responsible for blowing up Nord Stream 2.

On the surface, his piece doesn’t hold up to scrutiny even a little bit.
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Dec 29, 2022
This is the most important story you might have missed (both in November and last week).

The “Mariupol Plan” is brazen and disgusting, but let’s look at it with the hindsight of knowing how Putin’s war has played out so far. 1/X
Mariupol would have been more than just industrial cash-flow for Putin and the separatists territories — it was also vital if he wanted a land bridge to Crimea, which we know was a major goal in the early part of his 2022 invasion.

Brookings in 2015: 2/X

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Think back to early in the war when the Azov Regiment heroically held out during the Siege of Mariupol. That operation diverted thousands of Russian forces from other areas, and bought the Ukrainians time to shore up defenses elsewhere. 3/X
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Oct 24, 2022
Thread: Let’s talk midterms, shall we?

There’s a lot of analysis out there that, in my view, is completely missing the point about both the stakes of this election *and* the GOP’s platform.

Let’s dig in. 1/X
Yes, the GOP wants to go after Women’s Rights, Social Security, Voting Rights, Medicare, Medicaid, and the separation of church and state.

That’s all unpopular stuff.

The GOP does *not* care about electability anymore — they envision a future in which votes don’t matter. 2/X
First, a little bit of backstory for context:

The GOP’s base has been shrinking for decades. We outnumber them by a lot, and they know it.

Even still, they refuse to budge from their antiquated ideas and draconian enforcement measures. 3/X
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