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Eli Lake
@EliLake
Host of the Re-Education podcast . Contributing editor at Fellow columnist .
JournalistDistrict of Columbiapodcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…Joined April 2009

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I’ve been going through the interview transcripts that ODNI forced to release. It’s now clear why every Republican on his committee in 2019 called for his resignation. He knew the closed door witnesses didn’t support his innuendo and fakery on Russia collusion.
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According to Bolton, Trump privately told China’s tyrant that he should keep building concentration camps for Uighurs. That is an obscenity. He deserves to lose every state in November.
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Regardless of what Judge Sullivan does in regard to Flynn, honest observers have to reckon with what we now know about the investigation & prosecution. Exculpatory evidence was kept from Flynn, his lawyers & the public. The FBI, and later Mueller, stoked a false narrative.
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Does anyone besides Adam Schiff think Trump’s mean, crude and stupid tweets today constitute “witness intimidation?”
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For most of my life I thought free speech was really good. But now that Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter, I realize free speech is actually what Nazis like. The founding fathers started the revolution because King George wasn’t moderating enough content.
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If DoJ has the goods on Trump, then charge him. But raiding his home for a violation of the presidential records act on the anniversary of Nixon’s resignation smells like partisan bullshit and an abuse of power.
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Schiff says on “there were serious abuses of FISA” but then says it wasn’t apparent two years ago. He had the same information as Nunes. Nunes called out those abuses. Schiff chose to attack Nunes instead of performing his oversight duties.
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Erdogan cannot still be invited to Washington after his army deliberately attacked a US outpost. Sanction his assets. Arm the Kurds.
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If Democrats want to avoid a mid-term wipe out, they need to stop talking about inflation, crime and the economy. Voters care about 3 things right now: Trump’s collusion with Russia in 2016; abolishing the gender binary and protecting public school students from their parents
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GOP insiders tell me internal polling suggests Republican voters have really soured on the mainstream media.
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Just tried to tweet the story about Hunter’s laptop and was told I cannot because “the link has been identified by twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful.” The only reason I wanted to tweet the story is because it was being censored.
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This ends with these morons pulling down a Harriet Tubman statue because she was silent on trans equality
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The best way to view Sullivan’s unprecedented actions today in the Flynn case is as a last gasp of the “resistance.” In the last year the collusion conspiracy theory has collapsed. It’s discredited. Sullivan’s actions are deeply unfair to Flynn, but the truth is coming out.
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It’s heartbreaking that journalists, of all people, would be leading the charge to deplatform outlets they don’t like. Besides undermining the basic principals of our profession, this will come back to bite us. Cancel Snitch Journalism.
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I think it’s safe to say at this point that conned the national media on his COVID leadership. He made a horrendous decision on nursing homes and then covered it up on the death counts. Shame on him. But also shame on the journalists who couldn’t stop swooning.
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Hello @TwitterSupport This account is spreading disinformation aimed at undermining public faith in elections.
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Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things: voter suppression and election subversion. It’s about making it harder to vote, who gets to count the vote, and whether your vote counts at all. We have to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
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If you're a DoJ lawyer who was ok with what they did to @MikeFlynn please resign.
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DOJ lawyers of integrity will be tempted to resign over today’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case. My advice is to please stay. We need you instead of those who might replace you.
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This is a good account to follow for insider nat sec stuff.
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The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One.
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. is doing her job and following a story that her media and partisan attackers once hyped, to their discredit. To attack her is partisan gets it backwards. Not reporting on the new documents on the Flynn case betrays partisanship.
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On mid-term day remember that we are a nation of immigrants and refugees. America is an idea, not a blood line. That’s one of the reasons we are so exceptional.
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I hate to break this to but he could spend 30 trillion on infrastructure and it still won’t erase the stain of his surrender in Afghanistan
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If you hear someone utter the phrase “literally a Nazi,” there is a very good chance they are literally a moron.
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A lot of commies are in my timeline claiming the shortages at grocery stores is evidence that capitalism has failed. A better thesis is that we’re in the middle of a pandemic.
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A few thoughts on the transcript. First off, it's important to remember that what's at stake is whether the calls indicated that Flynn was a Russian agent. That's what the FBI was investigating. The bureau was prepared to close that probe on Jan. 4, 2017.
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The FBI never tried to place informants inside the Trump campaign. They only ran informants to solicit information from people who worked for the campaign. Is it just me, or does this seem like a distinction without a difference.
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I don’t buy the special counsel’s line that they had to do a pre-dawn SWAT team raid to arrest Roger Stone because they feared he would erase files. He’s been saying he would be indicted for months.
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For the lickspittles trying to nothing-burger the reporting on the Twitter files, try this thought experiment. If the found a laptop implicating Don Jr. in crack smoking and influence peddling, would the "safety team" have taken the same steps?
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As protests intensify in Iranian cities, remember that the collapse of this regime is not only good for Iranians but for the whole world. The leaders of Iran have terrorized their neighbors and their people for too long. Their time is coming.
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This is such a smear of . Osama bin Laden read Noam Chomsky, Bob Woodward and Michael O’Hanlon. It means nothing. To connect the author to the deeds of the sociopath who reads him is moronic.
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Cesar Sayoc has @benshapiro content on his Twitter feed. Several months ago, prosecutors discovered the Quebec City mosque shooter studied Shapiro's work obsessively before killing six people. This is a dangerous trend. The facts suggest Ben is inciting terrorists. #MAGABomber
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It doesn’t matter whose phone records Schiff subpoenaed. It matters that he published them in his report. Why would Democrats publish a selective log of John Solomon’s phone calls? The issue is the president’s abuse of power, not bad stories about Joe Biden.
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Hey is this a Logan Act violation?
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He’s met privately with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, spoken (in English and French) with Emmanuel Macron, and talked with Paul Ryan. My look at how John Kerry is quietly seeking to salvage Iran deal he helped craft: bostonglobe.com/news/nation/20
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Twitter is a rake this guy keeps stepping on
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Tick tock. “Those are coming.” Well, you’re no longer director and the Flynn tapes never came. All you have to show for your work is the dirt on your boots from shoveling and burying evidence for @realDonaldTrump. #ShowUsTheTape twitter.com/RichardGrenell…
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The party that in 2016 passed disinformation to the FBI to gin up investigations into their political opponent has now established a disinformation board at the Department of Homeland Security.
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I’m not a fan of ⁦⁩ But the national press corps and the Justice Department owe him an apology. For more than a year, resistance types have slandered him based on a leak of an ongoing investigation.
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BTW it should go without saying. This is not the Berlin airlift. It’s chaotic surrender. It was a dumb talking point 48 hours ago. It’s a shameful one now.
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How is the fact check coming? You guys need more time?
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While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
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Children who say they want to be another gender should not be given hormones or puberty blockers. And doctors who say this treatment is safe and reversible should have their licenses revoked. This position is not an expression of transphobia, it’s common sense.
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I had a lot problems in 2017 with how Trump fired James Comey. And the way he did it was horrendous. But the decision itself was correct. America is very fortunate that James Comey is no longer in charge of the FBI. What a disgraceful legacy.
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Have a little decency and apologize to Flynn. You helped, in a small way, the campaign to defame him and ruin his life. You have a chance to repair your reputation. Don’t waste it.
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Your friend betrayed the country. Then he became a blackmail target by lying about it. Then he told those same lies to FBI agents who protect the country from blackmail targets. Now you and the Trumps seek to gaslight the world so they can get back to betraying the country again. twitter.com/EliLake/status…
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Democrats like Swalwell and Feinstein got the benefit of defensive briefings when it came to Chinese espionage against them. Trump did not get this kind of defensive briefing on Russia.
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Just cancelled my subscription to It’s declined so much since 2017, but it’s failure to cover the IRS whistleblowers seriously choosing to run DNC press release spin on MTG has sealed my decision. It was once a great paper. Not anymore.
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It would be nice if we could get back to undermining the Kremlin, instead of the Kremlin undermining America.
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Does anyone still think moving the embassy to Jerusalem was a huge mistake that set back the cause of peace? Cause the Israeli PM apparently just met with the Saudi crown prince. I am guessing the US embassy didn’t come up.
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A point on the exchange with Elliott Abrams. She takes Maduro’s side in Venezuela, calling a “far right” coup plotter. And she then turns around and lectures Abrams (or is it Adams?) about human rights and genocide. What a farce
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A US backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face. Trump's efforts to install a far right opposition will only incite violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico, Uruguay & the Vatican's efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue.
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If you’re angry about student debt, don’t blame the Supreme Court. Don’t blame Republicans in Congress. Blame university administrators who keep raising the price of tuition to support bloated and pointless academic bureaucracy. Most “associate deans” should be baristas.
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Why aren’t more Democrats outraged and ashamed by a member who uses his position to advocate the censorship and shadowbanning of his political opponents? It’s unAmerican. Adam Schiff disgraces his party. No one in Hollywood who believes in free speech should support this guy.
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1.TWITTER FILES: Supplemental More Adam Schiff Ban Requests, and "Deamplification"
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Speaking of disinformation. We now know the main subsource for Steele was a target of an FBI CI probe. Steele himself was paid by Deripaska as he was compiling dossier. FBI uses dossier as main evidence to spy on US citizen & fights to include it in assessment of 2016 election.
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Putin has aided and abetted the Syrian genocide, invaded two of Russia's neighbors, irradiated his political opponent in London, lied about cheating in the Olympics and interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. World peace requires the countering and containment of Russia.
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If only there was a clause in the constitution that would make these kinds of international agreements more durable.
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Trump is about to do something opposed by the American people and our closest allies for no reason other than the fact that Barack Obama was involved in negotiating the Iran Deal. twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/
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We need an enhanced Magnitsky approach on Russia. Freeze assets of Russian oligarchs; deny oligarchs and their families access to western territory and markets; and ban the children of these oligarchs from universities. Give those spots to the children of Russian dissidents.
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675,000 Americans were killed during the Spanish flu pandemic. Some of those deaths may have been avoided if Woodrow Wilson bothered to say anything about it. But no one serious says President Wilson killed 675,000 Americans because it’s moronic.
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I’ve gotten some pushback for an earlier tweet that said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked. After reflecting on this feedback from our community, I’d like to amend my earlier tweet: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was entirely and self evidently unprovoked.
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I have some sympathy for resistance types flailing to save their narrative about Michael Flynn. It’s hard to let go of deeply held convictions. But don’t attack the journalists following the facts. Direct that anger to the officials who conned you.
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You don’t have a lot of credibility on this issue
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We are now in a full-blown national security crisis. By trying to prevent the flow of intelligence to Congress, Trump is abetting a Russian covert operation to keep him in office for Moscow’s interests, not America’s. nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/
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It’s unpresidential and dangerous for Trump to attack the FBI director the way he did. That said, Chris Wray was also insisting that the Nunes memo on FISA abuse and Carter Page was inaccurate in 2018. Horowitz proved Wray’s objections were false. He needs to explain himself.
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The republic is lucky that Agent Peter Strzok was fired for cause in 2017. These latest disclosures in the Flynn litigation makes you wonder why he was hired in the first place
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Last night I attended a party for a new American who just became a citizen. He came from Russia, took exams to attend business school and got his degree in his second language. He is why our country is strong. Those who hate immigrants want to make our country weak and stupid.
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As I have written, the Saudis must pay a heavy price if they murdered Jamal Khashoggi. But I can’t take seriously the outrage I am seeing from people who argued for closer US-Iran ties while Iran’s thugs helped Assad turn Syria into an abattoir.
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Anyway, this is important to remember as you see vindication tweets from the same crowd that insisted Flynn was a traitor. That narrative has now officially collapsed. /end
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