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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. Andrew Prokop‏Verified account @awprokop Sep 22

      I am not so certain about the "Rosenstein was being sarcastic" line as others seem to be. May 16, 2017 was a wild time. Days after Trump had given Russians classified intel in the Oval Office, his comments to Lester Holt re: Comey firing.

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Sep 22
      Replying to @awprokop

      Right! But then why tell the story w/o mentioning either of those details? THAT's one of NYT's biggest failures, IMO. They gave none of the most important context for those convos, and apparently couldn't get the different meetings straight.

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        2. Andrew Prokop‏Verified account @awprokop Sep 22
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Yeah, the framing was definitely odd. As if everything else was normal and only Rosenstein was behaving "erratically."

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        3. Andrew Prokop‏Verified account @awprokop Sep 22
          Replying to @awprokop @emptywheel

          Also doesn't clearly explain that a major issue at the time was that Trump might pick a corrupt FBI director who made him private promises. The Post gets a bit closer to saying that's what the "recording" idea was about: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mccabe-memos-say-rosenstein-considered-secretly-recording-trump/2018/09/21/f4aa9a62-bdca-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e43d7c9e5702 …pic.twitter.com/CZBrsnjaLC

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        4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Sep 22
          Replying to @awprokop

          Yup. And it would make sense to propose that to McCabe. It IS a story. It's just NYT didn't tell it. At all. And the result is that they badly misunderstood the significance of it all.

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        5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Sep 22
          Replying to @emptywheel @awprokop

          Lot of reason to believe Rosenstein appointed Mueller as least intrusive choice, bc you had to do something, but there really wasn't evidence of conspiracy yet. And then when the June 9 meeting came out (from congressional requests, not Mueller ones), things went haywire.

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        6. brian pillion‏ @anaphoristand Sep 22
          Replying to @emptywheel @awprokop

          With the range of purported(?) early-campaign intercepts, the fact that it took a year plus for the June 9th meeting to make its way (indirectly, via docs produced to satisfy congressional requests) to DOJ/FBI, finally triggering a serious CI investigation, is disturbing.

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        7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Sep 22
          Replying to @anaphoristand @awprokop

          The investigation into Manafort (and Page, who was far less central) was very serious at that point. The biggest question is about Flynn up until the time when it became clear he was lying.

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        8. brian pillion‏ @anaphoristand Sep 22
          Replying to @emptywheel @awprokop

          Yeah, just seems a disturbingly slow investigative reaction time. Do we have a clear picture yet as to the full scope of the 2016 battle Strzok lost to up the seriousness of the probe?

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        1. Bob Williams‏ @BWilliamsMont Sep 22
          Replying to @emptywheel @awprokop

          Mid America➖AP grossly neglects context➖ 28 column " spin NYT hearsay heresy into arguments to fire Rod Rosenstein.https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/21/rosenstein-secret-trump-taping/ …

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        1. Mick Lloyd-Owen‏ @MickLloydOwen Sep 22
          Replying to @emptywheel @awprokop

          Seems like it was written the way it was leaked.

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