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Roland99
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August 27, 2022
Keith Olbermann - He " sold the names of our foreign spies and sources, didn't he?"
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1563345690310623232 Motherfucking Trump sold the names of our foreign spies and sources, didn't he?
Motherfucking Trump.
"Last year, a top-secret memo sent to every C.I.A. station around the world warned about troubling numbers of informants being captured or killed..."
Motherfucking Trump.
"Last year, a top-secret memo sent to every C.I.A. station around the world warned about troubling numbers of informants being captured or killed..."
August 25, 2022
link internally to
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.87.0_5.pdf
Badd Company - Courtlistener document of an affidavit re: Jan 6 and other stuff
https://twitter.com/BaddCompani/status/1562882280913530887link internally to
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.87.0_5.pdf
August 14, 2022
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1558649705273466880.html
TFG #TRE45ON had NO regard for decades-long established rules for handling classified documents. It was all a novelty to him
Robert Costa: Bolton on TFG and classified document handling. NO regard for security protocols!
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1558649705273466880(thread) I've been following up today on something
@AmbJohnBolton
told
@CBSNews
in recent days and it has led to a new understanding of a part of this story: how Trump handled defense and intelligence-related documents inside the White House, and how that led to the FBI search
@AmbJohnBolton
told
@CBSNews
in recent days and it has led to a new understanding of a part of this story: how Trump handled defense and intelligence-related documents inside the White House, and how that led to the FBI search
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1558649705273466880.html
(thread) I've been following up today on something @AmbJohnBolton told @CBSNews in recent days and it has led to a new understanding of a part of this story: how Trump handled defense and intelligence-related documents inside the White House, and how that led to the FBI search
To understand how certain documents landed in certain boxes, and then ultimately at Mar-a-Lago, you have to understand how Trump digested daily briefings.
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What happened in the briefings often touched on the most sensitive aspects of U.S. national security and defense, as you'd expect for the commander-in-chief. But since much of the briefings were verbal, Trump would only glance at papers most days and sometimes asked to hold them.
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"Sometimes they forgot."
That line stuck with me. If they forgot to take the papers back, where did they go?
That's the question I started asking intel types and former Trump officials today. If the briefers sometimes let him keep the papers, where did they go?
Here's more Bolton. A key exchange.
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So, according to Bolton, you have a president who asks intelligence briefers to at times share documents after mostly verbal briefings. They take them back most of the time, but not all the time.
Then what? Here's what I've learned...
According to multiple sources who worked in the Trump White House, Trump had a tendency to work from the residence. He got briefed in the Oval and enjoyed the dining room, but enjoyed morning and evenings working from the residence.
And he'd often take a pile of stuff.
That transit, from West Wing to the residence, is where there was often a breakdown in the tracking of documents since most days few, if any, people confronted or asked Trump about what he was carrying, the sources said.
Trump at times kept those piles at the residence. At some point, some of those misc. piles were boxed up.
More Bolton:
COSTA: Why do you think he took potentially sensitive documents back to Florida after the presidency?
BOLTON: Because he thought he could get away with it.
(end) Bolton to @CBSNews: "I was always concerned about him asking for those documents, because once he had them and we left the Oval Office, there's no telling what he did with them."
To understand how certain documents landed in certain boxes, and then ultimately at Mar-a-Lago, you have to understand how Trump digested daily briefings.
Image
What happened in the briefings often touched on the most sensitive aspects of U.S. national security and defense, as you'd expect for the commander-in-chief. But since much of the briefings were verbal, Trump would only glance at papers most days and sometimes asked to hold them.
Image
"Sometimes they forgot."
That line stuck with me. If they forgot to take the papers back, where did they go?
That's the question I started asking intel types and former Trump officials today. If the briefers sometimes let him keep the papers, where did they go?
Here's more Bolton. A key exchange.
Image
So, according to Bolton, you have a president who asks intelligence briefers to at times share documents after mostly verbal briefings. They take them back most of the time, but not all the time.
Then what? Here's what I've learned...
According to multiple sources who worked in the Trump White House, Trump had a tendency to work from the residence. He got briefed in the Oval and enjoyed the dining room, but enjoyed morning and evenings working from the residence.
And he'd often take a pile of stuff.
That transit, from West Wing to the residence, is where there was often a breakdown in the tracking of documents since most days few, if any, people confronted or asked Trump about what he was carrying, the sources said.
Trump at times kept those piles at the residence. At some point, some of those misc. piles were boxed up.
More Bolton:
COSTA: Why do you think he took potentially sensitive documents back to Florida after the presidency?
BOLTON: Because he thought he could get away with it.
(end) Bolton to @CBSNews: "I was always concerned about him asking for those documents, because once he had them and we left the Oval Office, there's no telling what he did with them."
TFG #TRE45ON had NO regard for decades-long established rules for handling classified documents. It was all a novelty to him
August 14, 2022
I mean.... wow. The absolute idiocy
EmptyG showing why she's a founding member of the Gang of Dumb
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1558596561461968900Marjorie Taylor Greene believes generating electricity from wind turbines and solar panels will result in the loss of air conditioning and home appliances.
Greene: I like the lights on. I want to stay up later at night. I dont want to have to go to bed when the sun sets.
Greene: I like the lights on. I want to stay up later at night. I dont want to have to go to bed when the sun sets.
I mean.... wow. The absolute idiocy
August 12, 2022
Did #TRE45ON return a FAKE version of a TS/SCI document or documents???
Or fake altered one to appear to be declassified??
WAIT! Did TFG return a FAKE TS/SCI document??? USC 1519
https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1558163847088848901I am very curious what DOJ was worried about re 1519
Hugo Lowell
@hugolowell
NEW via Breitbart: Trump under investigation per search warrant for:
18 USC 2071 Concealment, removal or mutilation
18 USC 793 Gathering, transmitting or losing defence information
18 USC 1519 Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigations
@hugolowell
NEW via Breitbart: Trump under investigation per search warrant for:
18 USC 2071 Concealment, removal or mutilation
18 USC 793 Gathering, transmitting or losing defence information
18 USC 1519 Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigations
Did #TRE45ON return a FAKE version of a TS/SCI document or documents???
Or fake altered one to appear to be declassified??
August 12, 2022
Guess that covers it. Thanks Mr Takei
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1558151662186930177So let me see if I have this straight. The documents were all turned over to the FBI, besides none of them was classified, but anyway they had been declassified, still they were probably planted, and you can look up nuclear weapons on your phone, plus look at Hillary and Obama.
August 12, 2022
A little truth sandwich for lunch today
Yes, the IRS is hiring criminal investigators empowered to use deadly force, but here's some context
Yes, the IRS is hiring criminal investigators empowered to use deadly force but heres some important context
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/yes-the-irs-is-hiring-criminal-investigators-that-can-use-deadly-force-but-heres-some-context-11660247355
...
Though the job is really about sniffing out income and accounting irregularities to build legal cases, one of the potential duties is conduct[ing] or participat[ing] in surveillance, armed escorts, dignitary protection, undercover operations, execution of search and arrest warrants, seizures, etc., the job listing states.
There are 300 vacancies for that role, which pays between $50,704 and $89,636 annually, according to the listing.
...
As a starting point, the estimate of the IRSs bringing on 87,000 new employees came in 2021 from the Treasury Department, the AP noted. It would be a multiyear hiring plan and would encompass extra auditors plus an array of other jobs amid retirement and other IRS attrition, the AP added.
...
Data show the criminal division is a sliver of the IRSs overall workforce. The division includes approximately 3,000 employees, with 2,100 being sworn agents, the spokeswoman noted.
Though the job is really about sniffing out income and accounting irregularities to build legal cases, one of the potential duties is conduct[ing] or participat[ing] in surveillance, armed escorts, dignitary protection, undercover operations, execution of search and arrest warrants, seizures, etc., the job listing states.
There are 300 vacancies for that role, which pays between $50,704 and $89,636 annually, according to the listing.
...
As a starting point, the estimate of the IRSs bringing on 87,000 new employees came in 2021 from the Treasury Department, the AP noted. It would be a multiyear hiring plan and would encompass extra auditors plus an array of other jobs amid retirement and other IRS attrition, the AP added.
...
Data show the criminal division is a sliver of the IRSs overall workforce. The division includes approximately 3,000 employees, with 2,100 being sworn agents, the spokeswoman noted.
A little truth sandwich for lunch today
August 12, 2022
Price of oil/bbl is at lowest since mid-February
While it did dip a bit lower several days ago, the trend is downward.
August 12, 2022
I honestly wouldnt be surprised
Breaking: Surveillance video of FBI cracking the safe
I honestly wouldnt be surprised
August 12, 2022
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Paul Krugman FTW!!!
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1557897381756141569So the FBI raid on Mar a Lago was just a fission expedition?
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