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Jan 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Announcing: Just Security will be expanding its #January6th Clearinghouse
Notably, the committee references several articles published by Just Security …
2/ The #January6thReport cites this Just Security article by @UChicagoLaw’s professor Albert W. Alschuler.
“Trump and the Insurrection Act: The Legal Framework.”
Three discussions with Trump on 11/23, 12/1, 12/14.
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the President it was BULLSH*T.”
Historian of political rhetoric, @jenmercieca annotates a recent Tucker Carlson presentation.
She begins with general research on conspiracies and propaganda, with insights from cognitive science.
Then a section-by-section dissection.
justsecurity.org/77078/the-prop…2. "Propaganda often relies upon fear appeals to demonize the 'them' and scare the 'us' into maintaining a warlike footing."
"From cognitive science we learn how these kinds of appeals work against our body’s basic physiology, denying our ability to reason."
"If you understand the Justice Department, the damage has already been done. The reputation and credibility of the Justice Department has been dealt a significant blow."
- Lisa Monaco, former Assistant to the President and worked for Reno and Mueller
Amid a new House probe into whether Trump is w/holding aid to #Ukraine for its defense v. #Russia in exchange for fake “dirt” on Biden, check out @ViolaGienger’s deep dive.
A leaked version of the document does NOT say that the deported person must have previously been present in Guatemala to be transferred there.
Jun 12, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Busy day in Congress!
9am: House Intelligence Committee on Mueller Report
10am: House Armed Services Commitee on National Defense Authorization Act
10am: House Foreign Affairs Committee on "Emergency" Arms Sales
We've got you covered... 1/4 (including livestream links below)
"Unfinished Business: What Mueller Didn’t Cover, But Congress Can"
Blumenthal's essay: justsecurity.org/64057/an-open-…
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2. The next great piece in our series comparing the political conditions and effects of the Nixon-Clinton-Trump #Impeachment processes:
justsecurity.org/40281/qa-assan…
Question: “What if the government’s case against Julian Assange is based primarily – and let’s say for the sake of analysis, exclusively – on allegations that he was directly involved in procuring classified information?...”
Mar 11, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Sec. Pompeo made a major statement on U.S. military defense of #Philippines against China.
justsecurity.org/63168/u-s-phil…
At the time, @AbeDenmark called it “Big news for the US-Philippines Alliance. Expect China to test within the year (what constitutes an armed attack?).”
—US military disruption of Russia mid-terms election interference
—Kushner's security clearances
—profile of Konstantin Kilimnik
One of the latest significant entries into the Trump-Russia Timeline:
US military's cyber disruption of Russia's interference in 2018 midterm elections
(reporting by @nakashimae)
.@BethVanSchaack is providing a three-part series on recent developments in international criminal law.
Part I looks at key moments in the past year and events on the horizon involving the International Criminal Court. justsecurity.org/60597/internat…
Part II of the series focuses on the ad hoc international and hybrid tribunals, like those used in Cambodia and Sierra Leone. justsecurity.org/60615/internat…