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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. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 9

      Reup: How the White House's Tolerance for Wife-Beaters Exposed That It Was Harboring Counterintelligence Threats https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/02/09/how-the-white-houses-tolerance-for-wife-beaters-exposed-it-was-harboring-counterintelligence-threats/ …

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    2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 9

      I'm betting the other people FBI informed John Kelly couldn't get security clearance are even closer and more vital to the President than Porter. Porter's exposure endangers them now too. {Koughushner}

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 9

      It is distinctly possible Kelly protected Porter, among other reasons, bc if he followed thru on his threat to fire those who can't be cleared (there are witnesses!) more powerful aides would be axed.

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        2. P2‏ @flounder_MA Feb 9
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Story that Kelly was planning to getting around to firing them seems like totally bogus, planted story to help save Kelly's job.

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 9
          Replying to @flounder_MA

          Agree that's likely.

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        2. Andy Farquhar‏ @andy_farquhar Feb 9
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Kelly's Sgt Schultz defense has become untenable. You're right. As long as he didn't fire anyone for reasons connected to clearances he could plead ignorance. But now the who else & why questions themselves show he knew about security risks deep in the White House & did nothing.

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 9
          Replying to @andy_farquhar

          What counts as untenable in this White House?

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        4. Andy Farquhar‏ @andy_farquhar Feb 9
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Depends on what the FBI leaks next. I was really thinking of Senate & House hearings that will never happen - at least not until the next Congress.

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        1. carbonic blockchain‏ @nongnonghead Feb 9
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Anybody who can clear the background check wants no position exposing themselves to this criminal enterprise. Is it possible they've no candidates to backfill from?

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        1. Michael Musson‏ @mmusson Feb 9
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Plus Trump couldn’t get cleared himself if he wasn’t cleared by definition.

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        1. no-respect‏ @CapulettiM Feb 9
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Maybe the later story got leaked because he wants to fire Kushner. I think he protected Porter due to a military mindset: we keep this in the family and good soldiers sometimes do bad things. It seems the Mormon mindset was similar.

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        1. El T‏ @emoska86 Feb 9
          Replying to @emptywheel

          I recall a certain couple who were going to do 3-monthly reviews of whether to stay in Washington. Wouldn't really need to axe two in that situation per se, just encourage a review that said "Yay NYC here we come".

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