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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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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 16

    Folks: for those asking, Butina was not my source, and while she was pretty obviously a spy, I had no personal knowledge of any of that.

    12:45 PM - 16 Jul 2018
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      2. Chris I'm not a baby Wood‏ @plasticpig Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Just realized you're going to have to tweet one of these every time a spy a gets arrested from here on out...

        2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Jul 16
        Replying to @plasticpig

        Correct. Hopefully that state of affairs won't last too long.

        2 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
      4. Matorin Law Office‏ @MatorinLaw Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel @plasticpig

        We're going to figure it out by process of elimination if you keep saying "it wasn't this person"...

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. IBrake ForAnts‏ @ibrake4ants Jul 16
        Replying to @MatorinLaw @emptywheel @plasticpig

        Well she already revealed awhile ago that the person is male.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Chris I'm not a baby Wood‏ @plasticpig Jul 16
        Replying to @ibrake4ants @MatorinLaw @emptywheel

        She uses the male pronoun but that could easily be meaningless. Did she flat out say the source was male?

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. IBrake ForAnts‏ @ibrake4ants Jul 16
        Replying to @plasticpig @MatorinLaw @emptywheel

        IBrake ForAnts Retweeted emptywheel

        Here is where she said it--you have to read tweet she's answering for contexthttps://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1015661383155888128?s=21 …

        IBrake ForAnts added,

        emptywheel @emptywheel
        Replying to @ibrake4ants @ems1944
        No. I did. Doesn't narrow things down that much.
        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. IBrake ForAnts‏ @ibrake4ants Jul 16
        Replying to @ibrake4ants @plasticpig and

        (I'm referring to the fact that she had referred to him as a "he" multiple times, and I was asking if she was just using "he" in a generic way.)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. unholy aTomination  🎃‏ @tjl Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        ok... was your source bigger than a breadbox?

        0 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
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      2. Chris‏ @MrMurder37 Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Your contact was a setup, why was it sent to you? Guess they had it in for creditable opposition outside the major media trough. Why would unsubs go after that kind of profile from the outset?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Puns N' Roses‏ @gthanku Jul 16
        Replying to @MrMurder37 @emptywheel

        Because @emptywheel is the foremost reporter & analytist on this beat & they recognized the potential (for her to do damaging reporting) from her previous work.

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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      1. Jethro Higgins‏ @HigginsJethro Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Just so long as it doesn't turn out to be Tom Arnold, we koo...

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      1. Jazzy Minx‏ @JazzyMinx Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Thanks. That means there’s more to come.

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      1. The Wing King® (sword owner)‏ @PRB_09 Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        i thought you said it was a guy?? or at least have used "he" in describing

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      1. MD125‏ @AndrewCrause1 Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Person 1 has to be Kushner I think? He's the one who was trying to get a back channel before the election.

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      1. Kat Capps‏ @KatCapps Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Who is US Person 1???

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      1. carlsdad‏ @carlsdad Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Something that catches my attention is that she was in the US on a F-1 student visa. Seems strange for many reasons.

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      1. dr. snark‏ @NolaNole03 Jul 16
        Replying to @emptywheel

        was it joker?

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