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    1. southpaw‏ @nycsouthpaw 12 Jan 2019
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      southpaw Retweeted Benjamin Wittes

      One way of looking at it.https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1084255959969611776 …

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      Benjamin WittesVerified account @benjaminwittes
      An important reminder to all left- and center-left folks who have fallen in love in recent years with counterintelligence: Doing counterintelligence well requires counterintelligence authorities. Please don't forget that when all this is over.
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    2. southpaw‏ @nycsouthpaw 12 Jan 2019
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      Another is that *this* happened after a massive 15y expansion of US surveillance and security powers, which utterly failed to stop it. And asking the people to sacrifice more of their privacy and liberty after a security state failure is the oldest of authoritarian impulses.

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    3. Andres Freund (Pol)‏ @AndresFreundPol 12 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @nycsouthpaw

      Andres Freund (Pol) Retweeted Benjamin Wittes

      I think there's a pretty good argument to make that the real story isn't CI, it's that white collar crime has been ridiculously underprosecuted/investigated.https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1084255959969611776 …

      Andres Freund (Pol) added,

      Benjamin WittesVerified account @benjaminwittes
      An important reminder to all left- and center-left folks who have fallen in love in recent years with counterintelligence: Doing counterintelligence well requires counterintelligence authorities. Please don't forget that when all this is over.
      3 replies 34 retweets 152 likes
    4. Andres Freund (Pol)‏ @AndresFreundPol 12 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @AndresFreundPol @nycsouthpaw

      I don't know how many opportunities to validly stop Trump long before he became a candidate with financial / tax / criminal investigation there have been, but it got to be dozens.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Andres Freund (Pol)‏ @AndresFreundPol 12 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @AndresFreundPol @nycsouthpaw

      (And no, this isn't original thought. But I don't think using Trump as an argument for CI authorities is either)

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    6. the Lorso‏ @theLorso 12 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @AndresFreundPol @nycsouthpaw

      White collar crime. Massively increased and unaccountable, corporate spending in politics. Failure to regulate or effectively monitor activity of huge social media companies.

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      Andres Freund (Pol)‏ @AndresFreundPol 12 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @theLorso @nycsouthpaw

      As much as I think better oversight of social media cos is need, I don't think it's in the same category as the more general white collar and money in politics failures. Social media oversight is largely a failure of the last ~7 years, but white collar at very least since ~2001.

      5:44 PM - 12 Jan 2019
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