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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Hatch doesn't seem to know the difference between DOJ and FBI. But so what? He has only been on this committee for multiple decades.

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    2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Leahy: Irony doesn't begin to explain Trump and his allies using this report for political gain. If FBI wanted to throw election couldn't have done. Every single misstep helped Donald Trump.

      2 replies 25 retweets 91 likes
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    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Leahy: At open hearing Comey said ongoing investigation into Giuliani. Wray: A number of things I would have done differently.

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    4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Horowitz answers same Q: not able to speak to work we may have ongoing.

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    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Leahy showing that FBI used CHS against Hillary well into Hillary's campaign to be president. Does that show wrong-doing? Wray: We use confidential informants in all manner of investigation.

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    6. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Here's what I'd pay $50 for right now: A history of contacts between Cornyn and Comey. In fact, this makes me virtually certain Comey was working Cornyn in his insubordination v Lynch. https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/03/11/in-exchange-about-clinton-email-investigation-lynch-forcefully-reminds-she-is-fbis-boss/ …

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    7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      The United States of America is at a point where we're having a debate over whether we should prioritize a Weiner laptop or Russia tampering with an ongoing election.

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    8. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Durbin would be better served posing these questions to Wray.

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    9. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Wray: Device security is a particularly important part of our security. THEN STOP TALKING ABOUT CI INVESTIGATIONS ON SAMSUNG PHONES.

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    10. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Wray: I'm no longer practicing as a lawyer. Now I get to blame the lawyers. [He uses this joke every time he gets asked hypotheticals.]

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

      Horowitz: It's now clear to use even outside blackout period, we're not convinced FBI collecting 100% of text messages. I'm mindful of, say, @MalwareTechBlog's request for text messages among FBI agents surveilling him.

      12:31 PM - 18 Jun 2018
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        2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Note that Wray's answer that "FBI doesn't make charging decisions" should mean that the Strzok focus is neutralized. That is, he did not make the decision to (eg) charge Papadopoulos.

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Of course, a VERY KEY strand of right wing nutjobbery is that view of FBI agents (including Strzok) who thought Mike Flynn didn't show signs of deception should override later prosecutorial decisions.

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        4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Lindsey thinks he has discovered a lie. He hasn't. Sounds like he's taking talking points from Devin Nunes.

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        5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Lindsey now complaining that Hillary sat for an interview with 2 prosecutors in it. Trump, of course, won't sit for an interview at all.

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        6. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Didn't this Lindsey fellow have a lot of bad things to say about the Trump fellow during precisely this same time period?

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        7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          In spite of now two people raising leaks to Rudy, no Dem has asked Horowitz why the investigation didn't review the political views of those Agents and how it affected investigation.

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        8. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Wray claims he's not aware of any ongoing leaks on investigation. Says NY field office one of best offices.

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        9. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Can anyone remember any of these Republicans complaining abt the Islamophobic views expressed by FBI Agents on their investigations into Muslims? cc @attackerman

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        10. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Kamala Harris now asking for an investigation into press conference releasing Strzok and Page texts. Horowitz says there may be privacy act litigation preventing investigation.

          3 replies 17 retweets 58 likes
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        11. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Horowitz: day before report done we produce piece to department and FBI. Harris trying to figure out if Trump got copy.

          2 replies 12 retweets 36 likes
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        12. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Horowitz says they needed to get unsealing orders (possibly on GJ information) for some of this information.

          1 reply 4 retweets 15 likes
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        13. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          John Kennedy is making a case for the criminal prosecution of insubordination. That's not why McCabe was referred for criminal insubordination.

          4 replies 11 retweets 23 likes
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        14. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          If people should be prosecuted for 1) insubordination 2) calling Trump an idiot, can we prosecute John Kelly?

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        15. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          We're at the Tooth Fairy stage of the hearing.

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        16. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Kennedy: WE MUST STOP LEAKS!! Kennedy: Does your classified annex include references to this classified email, described in great specifics?

          3 replies 11 retweets 26 likes
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        17. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Senator Kennedy basically JUST confirmed informed so classified that members aren't allowed to read it, in a hearing in which one after another decry leaks.

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        18. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          DOJ has a rule abt talking about unindicted co-conspirators, but not abt people not charged at all.

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        19. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Whitehouse leading Wray thru a bunch of times when it's inappropriate to wrap up investigation. He may have just tricked Wray into calling Trump a subject.

          4 replies 15 retweets 52 likes
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        20. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Whitehouse gets Wray to agree that a lawyer for a subject in an investigation can obstruct justice -- bc of Rudy's public pardon offers last week.

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        21. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Nobody was considered a subject of investigation in Hillary investigation. I've said b4 investigaton would have been more credible if Hillary wasn't the clear target.

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        22. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Note, at least 3 GOPers expressed great deal of support for Wray in this hearing. That means Nunes' plan for an impeachment of him are gonna have a tough slog.

          2 replies 18 retweets 92 likes
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        23. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jun 18

          Sadly no Democrats asked the methodology behind these network maps, which were IMO the most irresponsible part of the report.pic.twitter.com/ESSiumoCmA

          2 replies 10 retweets 31 likes
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