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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Oct 10

    Positing a theory I hope someone w/very good CIA sources considers: Gina Haspel has both seriously ratcheted up ops against Russia and is backing Trump into a corner on Kashoggi. Doesn't mean I support her. But do suspect the woman who protected torture knows Deep State 101.

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      2. Lemon Slayer‏ @LemonSlayerUS Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        If not Gina, then perhaps Coats. Damn straight when somebodies in US IC tell the @washingtonpost about US IC intercepts of Saudis discussing taking Khashoggi down. Rock, meet hard place!

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Oct 10
        Replying to @LemonSlayerUS @washingtonpost

        yeah, I don't *think* Coats could do that, but maybe Susan Gordon could.

        1 reply 3 retweets 9 likes
      4. Lemon Slayer‏ @LemonSlayerUS Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel @washingtonpost

        Whoever it was in the US IC, they are laying down some heavy markers on the Saudis. Regardless of the oodles of baksheesh the Saudis spread around the Beltway, nobody really likes them. Friends they ain't got.

        1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
      5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Oct 10
        Replying to @LemonSlayerUS @washingtonpost

        Sure but if I'm right that someone has ratcheted up ops against Russia, effectively, then if it's the same person it's a big story.

        2 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
      6. Puns N' Roses‏ @gthanku Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel @LemonSlayerUS @washingtonpost

        I think the Russia front likely has several USG ppl (who see the obvious & don't cower to King Idiot). Saudi leak: Could be any one person in CIA or NSA with access to such intercepts; why do you think it goes up all the way to CIA leadership?

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      7. Lemon Slayer‏ @LemonSlayerUS Oct 10
        Replying to @gthanku @emptywheel @washingtonpost

        Fwiw, I agree with Marcy that these are 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 leaks, and likely by highly placed US IC persons. And by 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡, I mean that the leaks have the backing of US IC leadership.

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      8. Puns N' Roses‏ @gthanku Oct 10
        Replying to @LemonSlayerUS @emptywheel @washingtonpost

        I value Marcy's & your opinion on this a lot more than my broad guesses...asking to broaden my understanding: what leads you to believe Khashoggi leak to WaPo had IC leadership blessings vs a lone IC actor pissed that USG betrayed a US resident/prominent US media columnist?

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      9. Lemon Slayer‏ @LemonSlayerUS Oct 10
        Replying to @gthanku @emptywheel @washingtonpost

        Speaking only for myself as an amateur observer and tea-leaf reader, I'm confident in my belief that US IC leadership fully backed this leak, but it is only a belief and not certain knowledge. IOW, YMMV. :-)

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      1. Wester‏ @wester1967 Oct 11
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Right now Powell, Chairman of the Fed, has Trump by the nuggins. One more rate raise before November and it will be curtains. And then there is 2 more years of rate hikes. Trump is doomed. Thus the Fed "gone crazy" remark.

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      1. 𝖡𝖾𝗇𝗃𝖺𝗆𝗂𝗇 𝖢𝗈𝗆𝗉𝗌𝗈𝗇‏ @BengyCompson Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        The seeds of another theory I'd like to see (reasonable) people explore: Kashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2. Nikki Haley--the putative savior of the Republican party--penned her resignation letter on Oct. 3.

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      2. Alan Cole‏ @timeoutofmind64 Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I have no sources -- CIA or otherwise -- but just this kind of theory would begin to make sense of the various kinds of push-back we've recently seen.

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. Bob Clark‏ @badgercrack Oct 10
        Replying to @timeoutofmind64 @emptywheel

        Bound to happen when Trump attacks the IC and FBI any chance he gets

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      1. I'm LARPing‏ @Teddy_Stache Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Haspel is so perfectly non-descript and unassuming. The members of this adminstration must be as moldable as Play-Doh to a spook of her caliber.

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      1. Blank Slate‏ @blankslate2017 Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Quite possible. I don't think the WH was very happy with the news reports that USIC had info on Kashoggi being a Saudi target.

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      1.  🚫 Steamed Hams  🚫‏ @MinorInCon Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Yes. She’s by all measures a patriot. A bloody, unapologetically realpolitik patriot, but a patriot none the less. Like a vicious guard dog that you can’t let near children.

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      1. Katie Kearns‏ @kkearns Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        ugh, I don't want to find myself on all these people's side. It was bad enough when it was just Comey. Then Mueller. Then sessions?! Ugh. This is so weird.

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      1. Karen Sayers‏ @kesayers Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        God I hope so.

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      1. Gloria Nieto  🌀 🌀 🌀 💜 💜 🏝 🏝 🌋 🌋 🌋 🌈 🌈‏ @sjgloria Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Yowza Marcy, I hope the answers come pouring in!

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      1. Zuñi‏ @ActPeacefully Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Trump...or the incredible genius** Kushner? JK appeared to overtly assist in orchestrating MBS's coup and subsequent stardom around DC types.

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      1. Themistocles' Wall‏ @themistocles_w Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        #Haspel does not strike me as this brave (Gordon does) Coates is a politician I suspect this leak came from outside donny’s appointees Gordon or someone like her at her level is a good hunch

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