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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yeah, I don't *think* Coats could do that, but maybe Susan Gordon could.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Bound to happen when Trump attacks the IC and FBI any chance he gets
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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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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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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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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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God I hope so.
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Yowza Marcy, I hope the answers come pouring in!
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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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#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 hunchThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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