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    1. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 13 Nov 2017

      Benjamin Wittes Retweeted Paula Reid

      Ok, this thread is a kind of data dump of thoughts on this letter, of which I am genuinely unsure what to make. The following is worth what you are paying for it, but it's what I can do based on the text of letter alone—along with a certain institutional knowledge of the DOJ.https://twitter.com/PaulaReidCBS/status/930243837779423233 …

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      Paula ReidVerified account @PaulaReidCBS
      NEW: AG Sessions considers special counsel to address concerns about Uranium One & gives R's new line of q's for Sessions hearing tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/q2IUbGswpi
      115 replies 1,767 retweets 2,494 likes
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    2. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 13 Nov 2017

      First off, thanks to @PaulaReidCBS for actually posting the letter itself. The text matters a great deal.

      4 replies 158 retweets 897 likes
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    3. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 13 Nov 2017

      Second, there is good reason to be concerned about the dangling of the possibility of a special counsel here. The reason, as @nytmike and @maggieNYT emphasize in their story, is that Sessions is under a lot of pressure from Trump himself to investigate Hillary Clinton...

      13 replies 321 retweets 1,006 likes
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    4. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 13 Nov 2017

      ...and specifically matters related to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. This sort of political pressure for criminal investigations is toxic stuff. It's not the way the Justice Department is supposed to work. And any time in a context like this the DOJ issues a letter...

      18 replies 461 retweets 1,521 likes
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    5. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 13 Nov 2017

      ...dangling the possibility of a special prosecutor to investigate the President's opponent, particularly when the attorney general's job is on the line, you have to take seriously the possibility that an egregious abuse of power is either taking place or being contemplated.

      41 replies 853 retweets 2,370 likes
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    6. Marty Lederman‏ @marty_lederman 13 Nov 2017
      Replying to @benjaminwittes @PaulaReidCBS and

      I read it to say almost exactly the opposite--and I'm not usually inclined to give WBSIII the benefit of the doubt!

      1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes
    7. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 13 Nov 2017
      Replying to @marty_lederman @PaulaReidCBS and

      See the rest of the thread.

      1 reply 2 retweets 33 likes
    8. Marty Lederman‏ @marty_lederman 13 Nov 2017
      Replying to @benjaminwittes @PaulaReidCBS and

      I largely agree with Ben -- this is his way of telling Senators that nothing's coming.

      10 replies 37 retweets 155 likes
    9. Maggie Haberman‏Verified account @maggieNYT 13 Nov 2017
      Replying to @marty_lederman @benjaminwittes and

      That may or may not be the case. Letter was written many months after initial congressional letters and very shortly after POTUS voiced upset. A presumption seems unwarranted given all that.

      10 replies 10 retweets 71 likes
      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 13 Nov 2017
      Replying to @maggieNYT @marty_lederman and

      It came the day before Sessions testifies before Goodlatte's committee, so, better to respond the day before than face it there for the first time, yes?

      7:17 PM - 13 Nov 2017
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        2. Maggie Haberman‏Verified account @maggieNYT 13 Nov 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner @marty_lederman and

          What's the substantive difference? I understand the surface difference.

          1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
        3. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 13 Nov 2017
          Replying to @maggieNYT @chrisgeidner and

          The substantive difference is that one reading implies that the AG is preparing to name a special counsel. The other reading suggests that the AG—or the DAG—is preparing NOT to name a special counsel.

          4 replies 12 retweets 100 likes
        4. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 13 Nov 2017
          Replying to @benjaminwittes @maggieNYT and

          Please don't get me wrong. I am not saying your read is wrong. As my thread makes clear, in the current climate/context, one has to take the possibility seriously. I just think it's important to emphasize that there is another way to read it—and that it may be more likely.

          3 replies 8 retweets 59 likes
        5. Maggie Haberman‏Verified account @maggieNYT 13 Nov 2017
          Replying to @benjaminwittes @chrisgeidner and

          I don't have a read other than displaying the full context. It's certainly likely, the other read. Just wouldn't go with "more" yet.

          2 replies 1 retweet 25 likes
        6. Benjamin Wittes‏Verified account @benjaminwittes 13 Nov 2017
          Replying to @maggieNYT @chrisgeidner and

          Fair enough. Really really not saying you guys got it wrong.

          3 replies 6 retweets 43 likes
        7. Maggie Haberman‏Verified account @maggieNYT 13 Nov 2017
          Replying to @benjaminwittes @chrisgeidner and

          Trump has been talking privately to people for weeks about why isn't there a special counsel for this. Absent that, your read is easier.

          12 replies 11 retweets 85 likes
        8. Arcanjel‏ @bstnboy 13 Nov 2017
          Replying to @maggieNYT @benjaminwittes and

          There was a time that journalists would have been all over the Constitutionality of this as well as asking Pompeo to meet with a RUSSIAGATE conspiracy theorist These things used to be important in the United States.

          0 replies 3 retweets 4 likes
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