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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
      Replying to @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

      Hmm. You're confused and I'm willing to help if you want. For starters, FISA applications almost always have info from either informants (often working off a crime or getting paid) or--like Steele--intel contractors. Those are assessed by past track record. OK so far?

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
    2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
      Replying to @emptywheel @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

      Also I was the first person to write on that 4/26/17 opinion. I've tracked those opinions meticulously for 10 years. Virtually everything written about it six months later that people tend to read is hysterically bad writing.

      2 replies 2 retweets 5 likes
    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
      Replying to @emptywheel @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

      Moving on, when I asked about foreign spies, I wasn't asking abt cyber. I was talking about when other countries recruit Americans to betray their countries. Person to person. What should we do about it?

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    4. I'm Listening‏ @NvrRyan Jul 14
      Replying to @emptywheel @JohnWHuber

      Assuming the recruit DOES betray their country, that's treason. A rope is called for.

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    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
      Replying to @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

      Sure. But how do we find that out? (Technically, it's only treason if he betrayed the country in wartime, but I'm a stickler there.)

      1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    6. I'm Listening‏ @NvrRyan Jul 14
      Replying to @emptywheel @JohnWHuber

      There is no one size fits all answer to that question. Interviewing the subject or his friends/co-workers, tracing the info back to source, surveillance of different sorts, etc

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    7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
      Replying to @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

      Okay. So if you suspect the guy has used past interviews to alert the adversary, and you've done some work w/friends/co-workers, then you're at surveillance, right? Reasonable?

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    8. I'm Listening‏ @NvrRyan Jul 14
      Replying to @emptywheel @JohnWHuber

      I was not aware they thought Page had "alerted" anyone. Before you jump to surveillance of a presidential campaign which is what a FISA on Page provided w the hops, you might have considered warning Trump when he hired him in March or April

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    9. I'm Listening‏ @NvrRyan Jul 14
      Replying to @NvrRyan @emptywheel @JohnWHuber

      That has been my problem all along. Out of the chute, they have seemingly treated POTUS with suspicion. When Page was hired in March, there was no Russian conspiracy in the air, other than that being plotted by Podesta as a campaign smear. Trump w/h/b given a defensive briefing

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    10. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
      Replying to @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

      Well, there was Page. And they did nothing about him for another 6 months, after he had left the campaign bc his public activities had raised widespread concern. And there was Manafort.

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
      Replying to @emptywheel @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

      The record ALSO shows that they were very very conservative even in that time frame, not using techniques they'd normally use (and did use on other parts of the investigation).

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        2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
          Replying to @emptywheel @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

          Also, wrt defensive briefings? TRump got one of the strongest warnings about Flynn possible. Trump still made him National Security Advisor.

          1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
        3. I'm Listening‏ @NvrRyan Jul 14
          Replying to @emptywheel @JohnWHuber

          General Flynn was a threat to Obama. He knows things the permanent political class would prefer to keep quiet AND he wanted to change or policy direction in Mid East. Obama fired him because they disagreed on these things Ya know, like Syria?

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        4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
          Replying to @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

          Well, Obama also fired him bc he was breaking the same kinds of rules people accused Hillary of breaking. And he wasn't well suited for his job.

          1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
        5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 14
          Replying to @emptywheel @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

          But no, The reason Obama warned Trump is precisely teh same reason Trump might have gotten a warning abt Page--there was a serious counterintelligence investigation into him (on RU and Turkey).

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        1. Themistocles' Wall‏ @themistocles_w Jul 15
          Replying to @emptywheel @NvrRyan @JohnWHuber

          Way *too* conservative in hindsight

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