Larry Pfeiffer
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As senior director of the WH Situation Room, I managed POTUS head-of-state calls. So, what light can I shed on the Trump-promised phone transcript? /1
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My response to the
@WSJ
editors: As a federal employee i couldn’t accept any gift worth more than $20 and no more than $50 per year from the same source. And we were to refuse any gift if there were even an appearance of inappropriateness.
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I’ve heard words like this before. In my 32 yr intelligence career. Usually from foreign dictators and autocrats. Not from a US President. Where are the words of healing?
JUST IN: President Trump unloads on the nation's governors on a call, calls on them to step up enforcement: "You have to dominate, if you don’t dominate you’re wasting your time. They’re going to run over you, you’re going to look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate."
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First off: unless this administration has changed procedures in place for many years, there are no WH tapes of this phone call. As I used to say, the WH became averse to taping Presidential phone calls in about 1974. /2
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If I’d been caught taking home 15 boxes of material, including classified documents, when I retired from
@CIA
, having my house searched wouldn’t be a surprise. That it happened over 6 months later would be!
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That makes it even more unusual, but more importantly INTENTIONAL, that GEN Milley wore his Army Combat Uniform to the White House today, as seen in pictures of him accompanying
@realDonaldTrump
on his St John's Church photo-op today. /3
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The police officer didn’t hold the door for Trump. Respect. 🫡
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Former White House Situation Room sr director during Obama admin here. Totally wrong. Not unusual at all. Biden got full PDB when Veep.
Have heard from multiple White House and national security officials that Kamala is getting the full PDB daily. Highly unusual and Biden didn’t even get that himself when he was VP.
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Fmr WH Situation Room Sr Director here: Hmmm…what would I have done if President Obama had brought Michelle into a sensitive meeting there?
Don’t know. Never had to think about it cuz it NEVER would have happened.
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Could the President make calls on his own directly to a foreign head of state? Sure, but these are very busy people who aren't always available for impromptu calls. The procedures were developed over time for both the convenience and the protection of the President. /11 & Final
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Could there be recordings made by the foreign head-of-state's government or a foreign intelligence service? Sure, particularly when the call is made over a non-secure phone. /3
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Yes, there should be transcripts of the call. It is a long-standing practice, intended to not only memorialize the call but to protect the President against the foreign leader/gov't making egregious claims about the call. /5
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During my time at the White House Situation Room, it was normal practice for military officers to wear the more formal service uniforms when attending meetings there. They never would wear their less formal combat uniforms. /1
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Could there be recordings made by the US Intelligence Community? No. Law, regulation, and practice forbids such collection of USG officials. Besides, there's no foreign intelligence value in doing so, as the US official is aware of the call's contents. /4
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The White House Situation Room and the responsible NSC directorate develop the transcript. WHSR, which monitors the call, develops a verbatim working transcript which is reviewed and finalized by the NSC directorate and captured in a memorandum of conversation (MEMCON). /6
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This MEMCON can vary greatly from a lightly edited full transcript to a vaguely worded summary of the call. Sharing of the MEMCON outside of the WH and across gov't has varied from Admin to Admin and the sensitivity of the call, but has always been very limited. /7
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Not even at the heights of our greatest political unrest, like the Civil War, Bonus Army encampments, the civil rights movement, or Vietnam War protests, has our President retreated behind such barricades. What are you afraid of,
@realDonaldTrump
? /4
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Call participants often included the Nat'l Sec Advisor or his/her deputies, the WH Chief of Staff, an appropriate NSC Sr Director and members of his/her staff. Extremely rare for a non-WH person to be present for the call and we never looped in anyone outside the 18 acres. /9
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Who in the USG listens to the call as it happens? This varies from call to call. I managed the very rare call in which only myself and WHSR heard the actual call. In most cases, the call was listened to live by several people. /8
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Am I making too much of this? I welcome comments from my military colleagues. /4
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As to the foreign side of the call, we assumed similar participation. /10
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Worth noting that none of the documents appear to have their classification markings crossed out, as would be the case for declassified documents.
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When director of
@CIA
@GenMhayden
hosted an intelligence director from a developing nation at Colonial Williamsburg. We gave the visitor a guided tour of the colonial capital of Virginia./1
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Hi. Presidential head-of-state phone call guy here again. This is nuts. Let’s dissect. So, if he’s not involved, he’s not there to prep the President with expert advice from the interagency. /1
National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien on
@FaceTheNation
right now, in response to whether Trump has told Putin to stop meddling in US elections: “Unlike my predecessors, I don’t get involved in conversations the President has with foreign leaders.”
No kidding.
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A search for images of Chm of the Joint Chiefs of Staff GEN Milley at the White House would suggest that this tradition continues today. /2
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And remember that
#ClarenceThomas
was a federal employee of
@TheJusticeDept
and
@USEEOC
for 9 years. He knows what’s expected of public servants.
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I even stopped President Barack Obama from bringing his Blackberry into the Situation Room (a SCIF) when I was there. Thought I'd be packing boxes later that day, but he got it. Never brought one down again while I was there. SCIFs are truly a no-nonsense zone.
#security
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Please watch this statement from my friend, colleague, and boss,
@GenMhayden
. This took a lot of effort for him because of the aphasia he has to deal with as a result of his stroke. But it was important.
@JoeBiden
#biden2020landslide
@RVAT2020
NEW AD: Former Director of the CIA under Bush
@GenMhayden
: "If there is another term for Trump, I don't know what happens to America."
He's supporting
@JoeBiden
.
Watch his moving testimonial.
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Is it me or does his hairdo have a little John Candy in Spaceballs vibe happening today?
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AG Barr, in an effort to once again cover for the President, makes it worse. He ordered the violent routing of peaceful protestors for no reason other than “because.” Overseas we’d have to report host nation behavior like this as a human rights violation.
Barr says there was "no correlation" between his decision to clear Lafayette Square and the president's walk through the park a few minutes later.
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I still cannot believe this was the best doctor the Pentagon could detail to the White House. Wow.
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The tour guide explained that our government even at its earliest was a government of the people—the leadership didn’t need to fear the people. The visitor shook his head in amazement. /3
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This is absurd on its face. The President is always immediately reachable. I should know as I oversaw the work of the Situation Room and understand also how the WH operators work. We’d have our asses handed to us if we couldn’t connect to the President within a minute.
Trump's 'white power' retweet set off 'five alarm fire' in White House. Aides couldn’t immediately reach the president to get him to take down offending tweet because he was on the course at his golf club and had put down his phone, officials said
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Shameful. And one day after the attack on the FBI in Ohio by a Trump supporter.
Trump, via Breitbart, released unredacted copy of property receipt containing names of FBI agents. Based on his history, this can only be interpreted as intentional to cause these Special Agents (one of whom I know) & their families grief & subject them to possible threats. 😡
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With Trump’s repudiation of US Intelligence,
@ODNIgov
DIrector Dan Coats should resign in protest and disgust.
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As we toured the Virginia House of Burgesses, colonial seat of government, the guest asked us why the wall around it was so low. How did they protect the government from the people? /2
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Just being targeted by foreign intelligence doesn't make you a national security threat. Being warned and doing nothing, or doubling down, makes you a national security risk. Cooperating with law enforcement makes you a hero.
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As we learn al Qaeda was directly responsible for the first attack on US soil since 9/11,
@realDonaldTrump
puts amateur and politicized leadership in charge of the
@ODNIgov
and shuffles experience leadership out of the NCTC. And the GOP Senate yawns.
A college football team would never choose someone with no football experience. But to run the intelligence community of the most powerful nation on earth? Sure, why not?
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If he’s not involved, he’s not doing his job. What else is he not involved in. Incompetence breeds and attracts incompetence. It’s time. Vote these fools out. Return competence to the White House and
@WHNSC
.
#Biden2020
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Remarkable that
@DNI_Ratcliffe
’s immediate reaction is covering for
@realDonaldTrump
Top US intelligence official confirms "neither the President nor the Vice President were ever briefed on any intelligence alleged by the New York Times" about
#Russia
paying bounties to
#Taliban
Statement from
@DNI_Ratcliffe
at approximately 11:10pm ET Saturday
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Let me translate this word salad: “Yes, I would.”
Question: “Would you ever accept money from a foreign government?”
Trump: “No. I don—I don't do that.
I think you would be allowed to, possibly. I don’t know…The biggest banks, frankly, are outside of our country. So you could do that…But I have a lot of money.”
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Remember the time when
@GenMhayden
’s nomination was questioned b/c of his work for foreign crooks? Or when Jim Clapper had to withdraw for padding his resume? Or when Dan Coats kept his job as Amb to Germany while DNI? Yeah, me neither.
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When I was in the IC, an intercept of a foreign leader like this would prompt an intelligence report noting attempts by that leader to subvert democratic elections.
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46. Let’s not forget the 11 without the balls to even show up to vote.
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If he’s not involved, he also can’t testify in response to subpoena about what transpired. Hmmmm. maybe he’s not involved because no one takes Presidential head-of-State calls seriously. /4
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If he’s not there during the call, he can never be sure what was said, agreed to, or promised by either side, nor can he offer impromptu assistance when something unexpected comes up. /2
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This nee
@CIA
recruitment video is getting a lot of criticism. I would suggest that if you don’t like it, you are probably not whom the ad is targeting for employment.
Strength from diversity.
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My IQ went down 40 point just thinking about this Sunday lineup. And who will politicize Intelligence more?!?
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If he’s not there after the call, he cannot take any immediate direction from the President or participate in a call post mortem analysis. /3
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How irresponsible,
@realDonaldTrump
! If this were true, the DNI, the ICIG, and the entire management chain of the offending officer’s agency would be on him/ her like a hammer! Instead the ICIG, your appointee, cites the complaint as both credible and urgent.
“It appears that an American spy in one of our intelligence agencies may have been spying on our own president. The complaint suggests that this intel agent was listening in on Trump’s conversation....
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Donald Trump endorsing the notion of child soldiers in America’s culture wars.
(And possibly the only office in the US with a photo of N Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on the wall.)
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Unconscionable that Ellis as NSC Senior Director of Intel Programs received this critical training so long after his appointment. Speaks volumes about how cavalierly this White House treats classified information.
4/27: Career official says Bolton book contains no classified info
5/2: Political appointee (Ellis) begins review of manuscript.
6/9: Ellis completes review.
6/10: Ellis receives mandatory training “in proper classification (including avoidance of over-classification)” (oops)
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And NOW do you understand why Russian intelligence agencies and their Ukrainian assets targeted
@RudyGiuliani
?
Thanks,
@BoratSagdiyev
.
#kompromat
#usefulidiot
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To those saying we need the DNI to stay, I would respond with the question: has his presence curbed the president? History shows well-timed and principled resignations help illuminate and focus on problems. As would a confirmation hearing for a successor.
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So, is it that you don’t believe Trump engaged in an insurrection? Or that you think of the Amendments to the Constitution as an a la carte menu?
In America, voters decide elections, not the courts. I’m glad to see the Michigan Supreme Court acted rationally and will allow President Trump to be on the ballot!
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Evil incarnate 👿⬇️
One reason the # of Afghans is so high is that people are bringing their entire extended families, regardless of whether anyone meaningfully aided war effort or faces a particularized threat. Perception of an unrestricted policy surely helped drive oversized crowds to airport.
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First Trump didn’t have any classified docs.
Then he had returned them all.
Then the FBI planted then during the raid.
Then they were declassified when he took them to the Oval.
Then they were declassified just by thinking about them.
Now they were his personal property.
First, it wasn’t Hunter’s laptop.
Then they admitted it was his laptop, but argued it was Russian “disinformation.”
Then they admitted it wasn’t disinfo, but assured us Joe Biden wasn’t involved.
Now, it looks like Joe was involved, but they’re telling us he did nothing wrong.
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This ad is so beneath the
@MikeRogersForMI
we in the national security community remember. He should apologize to
@ElissaSlotkin
and the voters of Michigan for subjecting them to such garbage.
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I don’t know—maybe someone who was made by the media pontificating while a guest of the country preparing to invade the sovereign nation next door. That’s pretty grotesque.
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I worked alongside the
@SecretService
at the White House. This does not describe the men & women (or dogs even!) who swear to maintain peace and preserve our Constitution while protecting the President and First Family. Not eager for “action” or to use their weapons. Respectful.
Great job last night at the White House by the U.S.
@SecretService
. They were not only totally professional, but very cool. I was inside, watched every move, and couldn’t have felt more safe. They let the “protesters” scream & rant as much as they wanted, but whenever someone....
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Done and done.
Retweet this if you have voted or are planning on voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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Grenell fail. Someone purporting to be an intelligence leader falling for likely Russian disinformation, not even questioning its provenance, is outrageous.
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The best IG is one seen as non-partisan and not favoring one party over another. I speak from experience. This is a disaster in the making.
@ODNIgov
@nsc
@HouseIntel
Trump nominates former Nunes aide to serve as intel community inspector general | TheHill
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I joined in signing
@RenewAmerica
’s statement. I’ve seen similar behavior only in so-called ”political parties” in autocracies or 3rd World failing democracies. ⬇️
Statement on the RNC’s Censure of Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger
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Contributing to a false narrative with selective declassification is not transparency. Shameful behavior from what should be an apolitical leader of the IC.
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I’m old enough to remember when
@MariaBartiromo
was a serious journalist.
"Is this treason?" -- Maria Bartiromo to James Comer on Biden's handling of classified documents
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Those of us with US intelligence backgrounds have seen this all before, in the behavior of despots overseas. Let's squash this here in the USA before it's too late by voting for
@JoeBiden
! Register & vote!
@TheSteadyState3
#BidenHarris2020
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Proud to have added my name today to this letter from former national security officials, like fmr
@CIA
chiefs
@GenMhayden
and William Webster, expressing concern re
@realDonaldTrump
's fitness for office and endorsing
@JoeBiden
for president. Read it here:
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Trump not paying income tax? Not the big deal. Outrageous debt, that's the worry. The
#1
reason someone is denied or loses clearances--screwed up finances! Large credit card or loan debt, missed payments--they've torpedoed many a national security career. /1
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So today we’ve learned it’s ok to conduct foreign policy while not in office, then to lie to the VP and others about that, setting yourself up for Russian blackmail. /1
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Re-upping this thread given the latest revelations from
@TuckerCarlson
that he was communicating w/ Russian intermediaries to arrange an interview with Putin. ⬇️
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Nothing personal against Dan Coats. Frankly a resignation by someone of his caliber and credibility would have greater impact.
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Irresponsible accusations made by an unnamed source with no substantiation. Is he still upset he didn’t get the job at CIA out of college?
Today we spoke to someone who had access to the still-hidden JFK files, and is deeply familiar with their contents. We asked this person directly: did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy?
Here’s the reply: "The answer is yes. I believe they were involved."
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If they are “lies, fully spun half-truths, and outrageous falsehoods,” then they can’t be classified.
#BoltonBook
I’ve not read the book, but from the excerpts I’ve seen published, John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully-spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods.
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A normal party wouldn’t have to clarify that.
The
@GOP
should clarify that there is no pledge to support a nominee if they are found guilty of espionage or a serious felony.
Donald Trump is the target of an ongoing criminal investigation and he should step aside & put the good of the country above his candidacy.
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@SpanbergerVA07
@nytimes
As a former chief of staff at
@cia
, I can assure you that 1) such personnel private info should never be released under FOIA and 2) Abigail would never have been hired if her substitute work at that school were an issue of security concern.
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How Miranda Devine can be considered an expert on the CIA completely baffles me. If this is an example of the level of analysis she afforded her work on the Hunter Biden laptop, her book should be filed under “Fiction” at libraries and bookstores.
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Dangerous. Sitting Speaker attacking rule of law. ⬇️
Here we go again — an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump.
I’m directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by
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Not inconsistent statements at all,
@Oilfield_Rando
. Totally different circumstances in terms of volume of classified material, how it was discovered & returned, and how each President & his team responded. But you knew that. And hypocritical if you thought otherwise. LMAO.
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A complete abdication of his most fundamental and sacred responsibility to protect and defend Americans,
@realDonaldTrump
says Russia will fight ISIS for us. 10/16/19: Mark the date when a US President forgot the lesson of 9/11.
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Wait, I thought you just said they were “lies, fully spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods.” What sacred trust did he violate then and how would it rise to treason? You guys need to get the story straight—lies or secrets?
It is both sad and dangerous that John Bolton’s final public role is that of a traitor who damaged America by violating his sacred trust with its people. To our friends around the world: you know that President
@realDonaldTrump
's America is a force for good in the world.
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Wow. Never thought I’d see an actual REAL spill of classified information.
(For those who don’t know, I’m the Intelligence Community we call classified information found in unauthorized space a “spill.”)
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Fmr AG Barr cannot dodge responsibility for what ensued yesterday. His “unitary executive” theories fed to a malignant narcissist led to this.
#CapitolBuilding
Statement former AG Barr, “Orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable. The President’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters.”
@CBSNews
First reported
@AP
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There are serious national security implications regarding the ease with which the Capitol was breached. Terrorist groups, foreign and domestic, are taking notes.
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Complete the process & visit your nearest US consulate to formally renounce your US citizenship. It costs $2350, there’s paperwork, and you have to pay back taxes.
Oh, and there are those espionage charges. (You’ll get to see your parents and sons. On visitation days.)
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Special master candidates? They should currently posses a TS/SCI clearance but also be conversant in attorney client and executive privilege matters.
Small universe.
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I know. We can call them the McCarthy Hearings. 🙄
Hearing McCarthy suggested Jim Jordan lead a church-style probe into the FBI during the phone call today
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Sorry,
@RichardGrenell
—this
@POTUS
and DNI respect the integrity of intelligence and its speaking truth to power, not politicizing and weaponizing intel like the last crew. Projection much?
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As an intelligence officer for over 30 years I always marveled at the prevalence of conspiracy theories in nations abroad. Never thought the same could take root here in America. ⬇️
"I would urge all of those watching today to focus on the evidence… Do not be distracted by politics. This is serious. We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence."
- Vice Chair
@RepLizCheney
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I really don’t like this new season of The Handmaid’s Tale.
@HandmaidsOnHulu
#GeorgeFloydProtests
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Or perhaps he understands the letter and spirit of the law and wants an expert in intelligence and national security in the job.
If Adam Schiff wants her in there, the rumors about her being besties with Brennan and the rest of the clown cadre must be 100% true.
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Looks like
@RichardGrenell
didn’t learn anything about fact-based analysis during his brief tenure as pretend DNI.
One day after he refused to answer my questions, a federal judge here in Nevada said claims of an illegitimate election pushed by
@RichardGrenell
were backed by “little to no evidence.”
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😂😂😂“The next time you want to get rid of your village idiots and town drunks, please do not send them to Congress.”😂😂😂
Marjorie is running around calling Lauren a whore.
Kevin McCarthy sucker-punched Tim Burchett in the hallway.
Mark Mullen threatened to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.
James Comer became completely unglued at being called out for doing the same thing he wants to
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Relying on Breitbart as a trusted source of information, Tuberville?
What an embarrassment…
Don’t you have some real work to do?
Another good piece on Michael Hayden’s life of failure, serial dishonesty, and now his post-retirement grifting.
What an embarrassment.
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Any good intelligence service could enter the bathroom, copy or photograph documents, and leave, and you’d never know they were there.
That’s why we have sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) physical and technical standards to protect this information.
"There are 33 bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago. So don't act like it's just in some random bathroom that the guests can go into," Florida Rep. Bryon Donalds says on CNN. Speaker McCarthy has also defended that location, saying at least "a bathroom door locks."
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I guarantee that if six
@CIA
analysts working one of the highest profile targets of their time were offered money to change their analysis, THEY would be the whistleblowers.
This story doesn’t add up.
🚨 BREAKING: C.I.A CONFIRMS COVID LEAKED FROM WUHAN LAB | EXPOSES C.I.A BRIBE!
A CIA whistleblower told Congress that the agency offered officials on a team investigating COVID-19 origins "significant monetary incentive" to change their position FROM ‘Covid originated out of a
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Sue Gordon’s forced resignation as deputy DNI today is an assault on inteligence.
@realDonaldTrump
is clearly ignorant of the wounds he inflicts on US national security.
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