WaPo has done a very good job of claiming Mitch McConnell was evil for not making a statement that preceded IC attribution last fall.
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Until October 7 McConnell had, at the very least, cover for not making a statement, bc neither had the IC.
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Do you REALLY want Congress to be in the business of making attributions that the IC will not yet make? Really?
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As I understand timeline, McConnell disagreed with the intelligence well after the IC had reached this conclusion. Why do you choose 7 Oct?
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Because that's when IC issued a statement? Nope. All the WaPo details on public statement are September. September is b4 October, right?
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Not interested in when they issued statement. Interested in when they told McConnell "the Russians what did it." He seems hard to persuade.
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Ok. Well, again, I'm actually affirmatively uncomfortable with expecting MoCs to get ahead of public IC attribution. They're not cutouts.
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That gives him (and others) an enormous amount of cover for behaving tribally when in their short term interests.
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Was that the point? Or was it just that he NEVER got on board the bipartisan train?
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Fact check. You're wrong. Maybe go learn the facts and then engage?
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Somebody needs a little chill pill on Saturday morning.
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Yes. You. Because you're clinging to errors bc that's what you want to believe. DO NOT tell me I need a chill pill bc I believe in facts.
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OMG back atcha. Try using your brain a little.
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I agree w your take emptywheel but think the OMG was because your response was dickish

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Yes. Telling someone they need a "chill pill" is not dickish at all.
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Was IC clear in 9-16 at Russia hack mtg? And did Mitch refuse to sign bipartisan letter & threaten Obama w/ partisanship if O went public?
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