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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 Sep 2

    emptywheel Retweeted Benjamin Wittes

    The people who apologized for torture and dismissed good faith critics for years are still advocating forgetting the past that paved the way for Trump, while demanding we never forget support for Trump.https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1036241832588570625 …

    emptywheel added,

    Benjamin WittesVerified account @benjaminwittes
    I would hope that we would all retain in future disagreements a deep awareness that the people we are disagreeing with are people with whom we shared a foxhole when democratic government itself faced a threat.
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      2. Brad Bookhultz‏ @bookhultz_brad Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Ya see- This is the mistake Obama made when he found the 22 million emails the Bush adm said it had lost. President Obama archived them- then R’s feeling safe went after Obama. They need to be held accountable all of them.

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      3. 2cannan‏ @2cannan1 Sep 2
        Replying to @bookhultz_brad @emptywheel

        Yes, and we the people, Obama and dems for not holding Wall Street accountable for their huge theft and tanking the economy or bush & cheney accountable for the Iraq-Afghanistan catastrophe among many other things...https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/gop-fraud-and-treason …

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      1.  🌊CatsMeow‏ @catinlaca Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Thanks for this, @emptywheel. I will stomp on anyone's opinion - now or in the future - that suggests just moving on once Trump is ousted. He's only the top layer of decay. The infrastructure of our democracy is obviously too fragile and needs to be scoured and retrofitted.

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      2. Jenny Sampson‏ @JennySampson16 Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Ugh, can someone explain this? Is Wittes a torture advocate?

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      3. Justin Hendrix‏Verified account @justinhendrix Sep 2
        Replying to @JennySampson16 @emptywheel

        https://www.lawfareblog.com/drone-strike-cake …

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      4. Justin Hendrix‏Verified account @justinhendrix Sep 2
        Replying to @justinhendrix @JennySampson16 @emptywheel

        https://www.lawfareblog.com/baker-hard-national-security-choices-strikes-again …

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      2. Violeta‏ @VioletaQSmith Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Is this a type of salvation of the GOP through bs? I am asking because I'm not so smart as most people here and I want to make sure I am getting this right.

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Violeta‏ @VioletaQSmith Sep 2
        Replying to @VioletaQSmith @emptywheel

        With respect to Wittes and Lawfare, I have been noticing this tendency for a long time, and I would like to mention that they have links to specific people who may be complicit in bringing Trump to be elected.

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Miss Roland‏ @RegalHarvester Sep 2
        Replying to @VioletaQSmith @emptywheel

        I've noticed as well, particularly with Wittes. An ever so subtle sanctioning of conservative modus operandi using a sort of duplicitous pretense.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Violeta‏ @VioletaQSmith Sep 2
        Replying to @RegalHarvester @emptywheel

        I wish I had the verbal abilities of some of you ladies.

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      6. Miss Roland‏ @RegalHarvester Sep 2
        Replying to @VioletaQSmith @emptywheel

        Your verbal abilities are just fine to me - actually, your comment hit the nail right on the head, and encouraged me to make mine, so thank you! 😊

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      1. Marshall Auerback‏ @Mauerback Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        The people who apologised for torture, or accommodated white collar crime, both of which degraded the rule of law and paved the way for the Trump presidency.

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      2. Steven Pollack‏ @pollack_steven Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Well said. This guy with his stupid AF toy cannon & holier than thou pious attitude. He argues that if Trump is proven illegitimate & the fruit of a crime, then all Trump's decisions stand b/c no Constitutional provision to reverse. I called bs. We must find a way to disgorge.

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      3. Steven Pollack‏ @pollack_steven Sep 2
        Replying to @pollack_steven @emptywheel

        Bank robbers don't get to keep the loot. If election was stolen because of conspiracy with Putin, then all that followed is fruit of a crime. Get rid of Trump, then rollback everything.

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      1. Travis McGee‏ @procrastin Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Generically, never Trumpers are a funny lot. Most of all, they are universally white, male and privileged and will never feel the effects of the policies they support. But the left is somehow *obligated* to listen to them.

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      1. JayJay‏ @jayjay827 Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Exactly. Things won't magically change when Trump is gone. There's too much rot underneath to start over without major clean-up.

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      1. Oxblood Ruffin 3.0‏ @OxbloodRuffin Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        It's complicated, like black and white or truth and lying. Clearly, you are new to this game :-\

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      1. Dimitri Raitzin‏ @raitzin Sep 2
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Right. And Republicans will absolutely not #Resist and undermine President Booker or President Kamala Harris at every available opportunity. Live and let live.

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