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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. Greg Sargent‏Verified account @ThePlumLineGS 30 Dec 2017

      Greg Sargent Retweeted Adam Serwer  🍝

      Worse. Despite this imbalance, Trump now claims FBI had thumb on scale for Hillary, & is using this lie to discredit legit probe of him.https://twitter.com/adamserwer/status/947225407090130944 …

      Greg Sargent added,

      Adam Serwer  🍝Verified account @AdamSerwer
      Both candidates were under investigation; the FBI made a conscious decision to reveal the existence of only one of these investigations before Election Day. http://nyti.ms/2EiQp0I 
      21 replies 423 retweets 1,162 likes
    2. bmaz‏ @bmaz 30 Dec 2017
      Replying to @ThePlumLineGS

      Well, @emptywheel is right in that there is a fundamental difference in the nature of the respective investigations. But if can't make public the Trump CI one, you cannot do what Comey did on July 5. You give a 2-3 sentence OPA written release of declination @AdamSerwer

      1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
    3. Adam Serwer  🍝‏Verified account @AdamSerwer 31 Dec 2017
      Replying to @bmaz @ThePlumLineGS @emptywheel

      The argument is not that they should have disclosed the investigation publicly, it’s that they put their thumb on the scale for one of the two candidates.

      3 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Dec 2017
      Replying to @AdamSerwer @bmaz @ThePlumLineGS

      You may have missed my point elsewhere, but FBI didn't make a "conscious decision" to reveal the Hillary investigation. That started out as public.

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Dec 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @AdamSerwer and

      Complain abt Comey's July comments by all means, and Oct comments they precipitated. But there was never a way they couldn't discuss the Hillary investigation publicly, so Q was how they should. And FBI is going to hide a CI investigation, correctly so.

      3 replies 3 retweets 16 likes
    6. bmaz‏ @bmaz 31 Dec 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @AdamSerwer @ThePlumLineGS

      Which is also what I was saying. Inability to discuss the CI was legitimate. But it also created a duty to not exacerbate the imbalance between the two investigations as Comey egregiously did.

      2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    7. Greg Sargent‏Verified account @ThePlumLineGS 31 Dec 2017
      Replying to @bmaz @emptywheel @AdamSerwer

      Right, I think the main complaint should be with *how* Comey handled July announcement and Oct letter to Cong

      3 replies 2 retweets 26 likes
      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 Dec 2017
      Replying to @ThePlumLineGS @bmaz @AdamSerwer

      Agree. And that Comey did it at all. Tho think Lynch should have recused.

      5:13 AM - 31 Dec 2017
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        1. John Miller‏ @JTM1946 31 Dec 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @ThePlumLineGS and

          Effectively she did. Said she would go with Comey's rec. Still he didn't have to announce a decision that wasn't his to make. And falsify findings of his invest. They didn't find carelessness with classified on HRC's part.

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