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The FBI Misjudged the Villain of Russiagate for Years

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The arrest and indictment of a former senior FBI counterintelligence agent has reopened an embarrassing subject for the FBI and the Department of Justice.

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At this point if you come into my timeline acting as if Russia is the real aggrieved party, I consider it an intelligence test. I don’t think Twitter should ban your account or anything like that. I want the internet to see you in all of your glorious stupidly.

It’s shoddy propaganda. Putin ordered the elected Ukrainian leader to reverse his promise to join the EU. Ukrainians were justifiably furious. This is because Ukrainians don’t want to live under Russian domination.

Reasonable people can disagree on whether it’s worth it to arm Ukraine. I’m all for it, but I can see how someone could arrive at a different position. But the talking point that Russia’s invasion was somehow justified because of the democratic uprising in 2014 is pure fiction.

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The children of Russian regime elites should be expelled from western universities. Their slots should be given to the children of Russian dissidents or Ukrainians. Also keep seizing the money and property of oligarchs.

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The UN should host an international conference on devising a global strategy to demoralize and sabotage the Russian war machine.

Retweeting this and encouraging you to read the not-just-one reply in the comments of people mad about this comment -- who also have literal murderous dictators in as their profile pic or banner.

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Don’t listen to anyone who says it’s provocative to send tanks to Ukraine as Russia continues its unprovoked and lawless invasion. Neutrality in the face of Russian barbarism invites more Russian barbarism. The only way to stop the war is to break the army that started it.

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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The process at Twitter for moderating content from the largest and most controversial accounts was often arbitrary, ill-informed, and biased in favor of the beliefs of coastal progressives. Read more from

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killed it on this episode, always enjoy his insight.

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@EliLake joins the @Commentary podcast discuss the indictment of the former head of the FBI's counterintelligence unit in NY and what it might tell us about the FBI, the Justice Department, and the ongoing obsession with the 2016 elections. Tune in: lttr.ai/7WbD

I can’t discuss classified information, but I have seen more than circumstantial evidence that Adam Schiff does not always defend democracy

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Kevin McCarthy just kicked me and @RepSwalwell off the Intelligence Committee. This is petty, political payback for investigating Donald Trump. If he thinks this will stop me, he will soon find out just how wrong he is. I will always defend our democracy.

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This is a great discussion about secrecy, national security, leaks and when

The Re-Education with Eli Lake - Ep. 62: Unnecessary Secrets

and his guest are talking, you get to hear their thought process happen and their minds changing on bits of the topics, which is fascinating.

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In this episode Eli examines why the government purports to protect so many secrets and how overclassification erodes democratic accountability. His guest is Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the...

with exquisite timing:

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My latest is a good one. A deep dive into America’s dysfunctional system of state secrecy. My guest is

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check it out.

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podcast welcomes

back to the show to help us navigate the indictment of former FBI official Charles McGonigal and what it says about the agency.

I had nothing to do with that article, but this viral tweet is misinformation. In 2016, the FBI was running the Russia inquiry out of its DC headquarters, not its NY field office where McGonigal was counterintel chief. CI officials in DC like Priestap & Strzok supervised it.

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Just to be clear, when the New York Times reported that the FBI saw “no link between Trump and Russia” — a week before the 2016 election — the FBI agent who was just arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska was heading up the investigation. Just an absolute scandal.

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In “American Nomenklatura,”

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explains what the Twitter Files show. Read more: lttr.ai/7TQv #Twitter #Facebook #FBI #TwitterFiles

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Great monologue by

and interview of Mariam Memarsadeghi abt Iran revolt.

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Listen to this episode from The Re-Education with Eli Lake on Spotify. In this episode, I examine how unrest in Iran, the Russian army and Chinese cities exposes the fragility of regimes that appear...

Umm no. Mueller found no evidence of collusion. Also Chris Steele and Fusion GPS—the people responsible for the debunked dossier alleging collusion—were working at the time with Deripaska to retrieve money owed to him by Manafort.

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I’m late GenX (47) and anecdotally I noticed the biggest difference between GenX and millennial parents during pandemic. Most GenX parents I know were really pissed off about lockdowns and restrictions. Millennials I know rather enthusiastically bought in. Odd divergence.

Bret Easton Ellis’s Great Defense of Gen X

The Lakers will be in the playoffs this year. Don’t write off the third best Laker of all time. #nba

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‘The Shards’ parachutes us back into the world before teenagers became so sensitive. ‘We were very, very free to explore things that might hurt us, potentially might damage us.’

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This painting is 👩‍🍳💋

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today. It’s a joy if you’re in Wilmington. The paintings of Evelyn De Morgan are exquisite. The exhibit on the pre Raphaelites = 5️⃣⭐️

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Great thread on my latest for

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Sometimes, an article will make you say aloud, "Wow!" @EliLake's Commentary article on what we see and can discuss on social media is one of those. 1/ commentary.org/articles/eli-l

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Say what you will about Eli and the reeducation podcast... And I'm biased i think it's wonderful and informative. But the best part and what everyone should enjoy, regardless of your partisan view , is the bumper music between segments... Those choices are magic. ❤️

"what had begun with discreet requests from the U.S. government or committees in Congress to suspend accounts suspected to be Russian fronts transformed into a firehose of diktats from federal, state, and local authorities"

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“Call it the ‘content-moderation industrial complex.’ In just a few short years, this nomenklatura has come to constitute an implicit ruling class on the Internet, one that collectively determines what” the rest of us see. ⁦

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Things are going downhill fast, write the editors of the Sun. A rising chorus is urging the Fed to move its goal posts in the war on inflation — moving its target to three percent from the current two.

Federal Reserve Trapped on the Slippery Slope

As the Fed is pressured to jettison its two percent inflation target, the new goal is being talked up ever higher.

From Howard Husock: Many quasi-research entities have sprung up at universities across the country whose purposes are more causist than scholarly.

Harvard’s Cave-In to Human Rights Watch Is Part of a Bigger Problem

Many quasi-research entities which have sprung up at universities across the country whose purposes are more causist than scholarly.

Excellent look back at the path from right-paternalist “communication decency” in the 90s to left-paternalist “online safety” in the 2020s by ⁦

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Probably the best and most detailed rendering of the historical causes and timeline of content modulation I’ve seen. Well worth the read.

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In this essay I look at the new class that believes it has a duty to protect the rest of us from wrong think, hate speech and disinformation. American Nomenklatura. commentary.org/articles/eli-l

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The Collateralists

What would you give to keep your community safe? And by "give" I mean, give up. How about the life of the woman next door? If that does not sound appealing, no less plausible, how about one who lives...

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: The Republican majority in the House would be wise to resist the temptation to make political hay out of the president’s retention of classified records from his time as Vice President.

Republicans Have Bigger Carp To Fry than Biden’s Stash of Documents

The Republican majority in the House would be wise to resist the temptation to make political hay out of the president’s retention of classified records from his time as Vice President.

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House Republicans have bigger fish to fry than a round of Tu Quoque over Joe Biden's mishandled classified documents. My latest for

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