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Aug 18, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
Volume FIVE of Senate Intel’s Russia report is out. This one covers counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/… Paul Manafort shared campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian intelligence officer. Previous investigations have been unable to say exactly why.

We may now know: Senate Intel reports that Kilimnik may have been connected to the hack and leak operation (!)
Aug 7, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
NCSC Director William Evanina, who recently came under fire for a milquetoast statement on Russian interference, is back with a new statement equating Russian disinformation campaigns with ... the Chinese government doing normal government things dni.gov/index.php/news… Of value is the acknowledgement that pro-Kremlin Ukranian MP Andriy Derkach is "spreading claims about corruption – including through publicizing leaked phone calls – to undermine former Vice President Biden’s candidacy." Guess who met with Derkach? Rudy. washingtonpost.com/world/europe/u…
Aug 5, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
In testimony before the Senate today, Sally Yates thoroughly shut down Trump’s half-rate Flynn conspiracy theories. Again.
politico.com/news/2020/08/0… “Yates corrected Graham for incorrectly asserting that the FBI had closed its case on Flynn before it interviewed him on 1/24/2017. She also called it highly irregular that DOJ recently dropped the case against Flynn, who reversed course and sought to withdraw his guilty plea”
Jul 28, 2020 15 tweets 6 min read
"In your time at the department, you have aided and abetted the worst decisions of the president." -@RepJerryNadler

The Barr hearing is live NOW >> c-span.org/video/?473384-… @RepJerryNadler Nadler: "In this Justice Department, the President’s enemies will be punished and his friends will be protected, no matter the cost."

More on Barr's pattern of intervention and abuse of power themoscowproject.org/dispatch/how-d…
Jul 21, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Trump’s ambassador to the UK reportedly used his official role to ask the British government to host the British Open at a Trump resort in Scotland.

nytimes.com/2020/07/21/wor…

A reminder that everything about Trump’s business in Scotland is shady: All roads lead to Scotland
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Jul 17, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read
PROGRAMMING NOTE: For the past 2 years, our best tweets have come to you from the brilliant, tireless and encyclopedic Research Associate @JVenook. Our followers trust us for fast, accurate info on Russian interference; Jeremy has delivered that for you day in and day out. (1/5) From the Mueller report to the impeachment hearings, through 37 indictments, 7 convictions or guilty pleas, at least 272 known #TrumpRussia campaign contacts and 38 meetings, countless shady acts from @DevinNunes, legally questionable presidential pardons and deals ... (2/5)
Jul 10, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
Trump has reportedly commuted Roger Stone’s sentence.
Hard to imagine a more brazen abuse of power than letting off your own accomplice for deceiving investigators about your collusion with a hostile foreign power’s attack on American democracy. politico.com/news/2020/07/1… We’re not the only ones saying it: Here’s Bill Barr in his confirmation hearing telling the Senate that even *he* thinks exchanging clemency for obstruction of justice is probably illegal.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ba…
Jun 24, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Zelinsky's opening statement is a damning indictment of Barr's blatant politicization of the Justice Department to favor Trump.
Read the whole statement here: judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/… "The first thing every AUSA learns that we treat every defendant equally and fairly...We do not prosecute people based on politics, and we don't cut them a break based on politics. But that wasn't what happened here. Roger Stone was treated differently because of politics."
Jun 24, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Jordan opens with a rant claiming the Horowitz report showed bias in the Russia investigation.
That's the exact opposite of what Horowitz found—and actually reading the report shows the FBI worked so hard to look apolitical they totally dropped the ball.
americanprogressaction.org/issues/securit… He's also going in on "unmasking."
Unmasking happens when the government *doesn't* know who was involved in communications.
Flynn wasn't targeted—he was just doing that much shady business while waiting to become Trump's National Security Adviser.
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/creat…
Jun 22, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
THREAD: On Friday, the DOJ released a less redacted version of the Mueller report. It showed what we already knew: Yes, collusion. Yes, obstruction.
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/yes-c… It confirmed that Mueller's team had evidence that Roger Stone personally told Trump about his backchannel to WikiLeaks. If that's not collusion, nothing is.
cnn.com/2020/06/19/pol…
May 29, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
We'll trust these transcripts when we can actually read them—all of them, not just the parts Trump and his lackeys think will be politically useful.
Until then, remember: Selective declassification has been a key tool in their scandal playbook for years. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/creat… The transcripts are starting to trickle out.
So far, they show exactly what we've always expected: Flynn and Kislyak undermining the Obama administration's sanctions on Russia so as not to "box in" the Trump administration's Russia policy.
May 20, 2020 12 tweets 5 min read
Selective declassification has always been one of Trump and his accomplices' favorite tools. Now, they're using it to manufacture a scandal about Trump's political opponents while covering up the evidence of Trump's actual wrongdoing. Here's how:
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/creat… They released the scope memo for the Mueller investigation, which Trump's cronies have long claimed would show Trump was the victim of a witch hunt. Meanwhile, they got the Supreme Court to help them keep actual evidence from the investigation secret. washingtonpost.com/politics/court…
May 7, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read
THREAD: Flynn Gets His Backdoor Pardon (1/10)
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/flynn… The DOJ just dropped charges against Mike Flynn. It’s a brutal reminder of how brazenly Trump and his top lackey, Attorney General Bill Barr, are willing to abuse their power to defend Trump by rewriting the history of the Russia investigation. (2/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/flynn…
May 7, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
The Department of Justice is dropping its case against Michael Flynn, who lied to investigators about having conspired with the Russian ambassador to undermine sanctions on Russia.
In other words: Barr has done his job as Trump’s new Roy Cohn. apnews.com/ae1ad252bb1349… Incredibly, Barr and his cronies aren’t even pretending to argue Flynn didn’t do what he pleaded guilty to doing.
Instead, they’re going with Trump’s favorite lie: that, despite years of evidence to the contrary, Flynn’s interview was part of a witch hunt. apnews.com/ae1ad252bb1349…
May 5, 2020 15 tweets 5 min read
Two questions in, Ratcliffe says Russia wasn't successful in changing the outcomes of elections.
Maybe he should listen more to the intel community he's nominated to lead, which *explicitly* did not come to that conclusion (or even analyze that question).
dni.gov/files/document… Ratcliffe says he has "no reason to dispute" either House Intelligence's "conclusion" that Russia didn't have a clear preference for Trump—or the Senate's, which, like the entire intel community, found that it did.
He's trying to have both sides of the issue—just like Trump.
May 1, 2020 11 tweets 5 min read
We have some questions we’d love to #AskAGBarr. For example: Where in the Mueller report did he get the idea that he was supposed to unilaterally decide if Trump obstructed justice? Why has he refused to take even basic steps to make sure as much of the Mueller report is released to the public—even after a judge deemed him too untrustworthy to oversee the redaction process because of his efforts to spin the report in Trump's favor? #AskAGBarr
Apr 18, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
One year ago today, the DOJ released the Mueller report.
It's the most damning document ever released about a sitting president—which is why Trump and his allies have spent the past year trying to erase its conclusions.
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/one-y… To start with, there's the "sweeping and systematic" attack on American democracy, which Trump continues not to take seriously—and sometimes seems to deny even happened.
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/one-y…
Mar 30, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Nothing to see here, just Trump explicitly saying he has no problem with foreign disinformation campaigns targeting American voters ...and, as always, saying he has no problem with Russia, the country that attacked our democracy on his behalf in 2016 and 2018 and, according to Trump's own intelligence community, are doing so again in 2020.
Feb 27, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
Trump's 2020 campaign is suing The New York Times for libel over an op-ed from last March about his campaign's collusion with Russia in 2016.
There's just one problem: Just about everything the op-ed alleges is true.
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/trump… Here’s the op-ed in question, which says that “the Trump campaign and [Russian President] Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy … had an overarching deal: the quid of help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton for the quo of a new pro-Russian foreign policy.” nytimes.com/2019/03/27/opi…
Feb 26, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
This lawsuit is why it's vital to hammer home the truth about Trump's collusion.
It will be tempting to laugh it off on grounds that the op-ed preceded the Mueller report, so it couldn't be *knowingly* false.
It would also be accepting Trump's lie that Mueller found no collusion. In other words: It would be accepting Trump's entirely false premise that Democrats and the press and even Mueller were pursuing a figment and therefore engaged in a "witch hunt," which we already know will be central to his 2020 campaign.
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/trump…
Feb 26, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
Trump continues working desperately to rewrite the history of 2016, falsely portraying himself as a victim rather than as complicit in one of the worst attacks on American democracy in history.
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/trump… The article in question, which describes an "overarching deal: the quid of help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton for the quo of a new pro-Russian foreign policy."
nytimes.com/2019/03/27/opi…