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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 Oct 10

    emptywheel Retweeted Aaron Blake

    We have always detained the children from Eastasia.https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1050162439067787264 …

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    Aaron BlakeVerified account @AaronBlake
    DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen: We don't "detain" children, we "process" them and send them to HHS. pic.twitter.com/FVynkeTV4s
    4:17 PM - 10 Oct 2018
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      1. Ahnpankaahnman‏ @ahnpankaahnman Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        We don't detain them, they are just detained by us.

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      1. Me too‏ @ofthestardust Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel @HeidiLiFeldman

        She’s like “We don’t DETAIN! We apprehend. We process. We transfer. We care for them until they can be placed in a detention cent... oh, no, that’s not the same thing as detaining. It’s not my fault!”

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      1. IrrevLyn‏ @Reverend_Lyn Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        And if that, "processing" sometimes takes several years and winds up putting them up for adoption in ways that flirt with violating international genocide laws, so what?

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      1. Squire Haggard‏ @whodunnedit Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        My goodness, do the drug companies know about the effectiveness of “We just process the paperwork” as a sleep aid? Evidently it keeps Kirstjen Nielsen—or at least her conscience—sleeping like a dead thing. A shriveled, shameful, rotting dead thing. Ah, the banality of evil..

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      1. Desi Dero‏ @DccaDance Oct 11
        Replying to @emptywheel

        From "folders full of women" to "processed children" - what will the GOP think of next. (well, the "HeToo" movement is pretty audacious)

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      1. Derrell Durrett‏ @derrelldurrett Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        That was, er, on point.

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      1. President David Dennison‏ @RealPrzDennison Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Process them like meat? What baloney.

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      1. 𝕤𝕒𝕗𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕖‏ @safarishane Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I heard their chocolate rations are going up!

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      1. dry meat + reality‏ @barkflight Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel @tommyHotpockets

        Oh, "process" them like pink slime? That's so much better.

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      1. the innominate one‏ @vir_innominatum Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel @NotHF

        Detention is freedom.

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      1. Obsolete Image‏ @obsolete_image Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Concentration camp. That’s what this is called. Even in Eastasia.

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      1. Blaise Faint‏ @blaise_faint Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        And for the people born after 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four …

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      2. Chris‏ @skeeduu Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Not to get off topic but wouldn’t it be funny if the FBI used the Alfa Bank/Trump Tower server story, that’s already been debunked by NYT and Marcy, as the reason for opening Crossfire Hurricane ? Hilarious huh ??

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      3. Chris‏ @skeeduu Oct 10
        Replying to @skeeduu @emptywheel

        “In September 2016 [redacted] shared similar information in a one-on-one meeting with FBI General Counsel James Baker. HPSCI, Executive Session of [redacted], Dec. 18, 2017. Around the same time as his meeting with FBI, [redacted] shared the information with journalists

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      4. Chris‏ @skeeduu Oct 10
        Replying to @skeeduu @emptywheel

        [redacted] of Slate, who published an article at the end of October. HPSCI, Executive Session of [redacted] Dec. 18, 2017; [redacted] “Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?,” Slate, Oct. 31, 2016. Candidate Clinton promoted the [redacted]

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      5. Chris‏ @skeeduu Oct 10
        Replying to @skeeduu @emptywheel

        article to her social media followers the same day it was published.

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      6. Chris‏ @skeeduu Oct 10
        Replying to @skeeduu @emptywheel

        In the Slate article, Foer writes: “In late July, one of these scientists…found what looked like malware emanating from Russia. The destination domain had Trump in its name.”

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      1. Rabid Rodham Hussein Badger‏ @rabidbadger Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Other “processed” children.pic.twitter.com/qnRA6AZvWO

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      2. Mike Eads‏ @SouthsideEads Oct 10
        Replying to @emptywheel

        But we need a wall around Airstrip One now, apparently.

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      3. Jason Fordham‏ @anwaya Oct 11
        Replying to @SouthsideEads @emptywheel

        Airstrip One has the Channel, and is making itself as unappealing to foreigners as it possibly can. Even the planes will be grounded.

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