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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 29
      Replying to @jedshug

      No. It's not correct. https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/06/03/the-giant-holes-in-trumps-mike-flynn-story-point-to-collusion-not-obstruction/ …

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    2. Jed Shugerman Vote 11/6‏ @jedshug Aug 29
      Replying to @emptywheel

      Marcy, can you elaborate? I’m missing something. I didn’t see where this post explains why this is incorrect.

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 29
      Replying to @jedshug

      What don't you understand about that post?

      3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Jed Shugerman Vote 11/6‏ @jedshug Aug 29
      Replying to @emptywheel

      It seems the difference is that Waas is suggesting Trump didn’t know of Flynn’s collusion in advance, and you’re saying Trump did. I’m inclined to agree with you, but my point is that it’s obstruction either way. Right?

      1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 29
      Replying to @jedshug

      You want to believe Murray that this attempt to CYA (which exposed McGahn as much as anyone else) is more evidence of CYA than Trump offering pardons to Manafort and Flynn? Pardons he had probably already offered by the time this was written?

      1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
    6. Jed Shugerman Vote 11/6‏ @jedshug Aug 29
      Replying to @emptywheel

      Marcy, I trust your work & I think it's probably true that Trump directed the calls AND that he found out Flynn was caught red-handed. But I tend to be focused on what prosecutors can prove now. If they now have proof of obstruction, I think that's a big deal on its own. Right?

      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
    7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 29
      Replying to @jedshug

      No. They have proof of conspiracy. The obstruction only 1) got Mueller to the point where he got proof of conspiracy 2) gives Rudy means to FUD 3) is likely harder to prove at this point, and more legally fraught.

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    8. Jed Shugerman Vote 11/6‏ @jedshug Aug 29
      Replying to @emptywheel

      OK, got it. And I'll add a 4th: No amount of obstruction is going to get the GOP base or Senators to support removal. Only hard evidence of conspiracy will make a real difference politically. So if Waas's story is an obstruction-distraction cover for the conspiracy, I agree w/you

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    9. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 29
      Replying to @jedshug

      Yes. All the more so if people are spreading stories about obstruction that cover up the evidence of conspiracy.

      2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
    10. Jed Shugerman Vote 11/6‏ @jedshug Aug 29
      Replying to @emptywheel

      That's a major factual turning point in itself: the Trump White House personnel are so worried about Russian conspiracy evidence (and their own crim exposure) that they are conceding rampant obstruction.

      4 replies 4 retweets 13 likes
      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 29
      Replying to @jedshug

      I'd agree if I believed Trump had any competent lawyers.

      12:50 PM - 29 Aug 2018
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        2. Jed Shugerman Vote 11/6‏ @jedshug Aug 29
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Just an observation: Trump telling Flynn to contact Russia, by itself, is just a Logan Act problem, which is weaker than an obstruction problem. So Mueller would need to have more damning content of Trump’s order or other conspiratorial conduct. Right?

          2 replies 6 retweets 8 likes
        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 29
          Replying to @jedshug

          Unclear. There's reason to believe Yates had more of a concern than that. And don't forget that by stalling on firing Flynn (another thing this stupid narrative covers for), you get him in the phone call w/Putin.

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        1. Rosatom Ulbricht 🔥‏ @screenslaver Aug 29
          Replying to @emptywheel @jedshug

          But they do seem to be pretty coalesced around unlimited article II powers, not sure it takes tactical geniuses to try to cast collusion evidence as obstruction and then claim that Trump's executive power makes his ability to fire officers unreviewable....

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