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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 20
      Replying to @attackerman

      September is the one he deleted, not August.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    2. Spencer Ackerman‏Verified account @attackerman Feb 20
      Replying to @emptywheel

      Why's that dispositive for a hypothesis that they reconnected owing to heat from the cash-ledger story?

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 20
      Replying to @attackerman

      Did you say August in your tweet or September?

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    4. Spencer Ackerman‏Verified account @attackerman Feb 20
      Replying to @emptywheel

      August, since the information sheet references as a mid-August 2016 text convo with Gates that Van Der Zwaan lies about representing their final communication.

      1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes
    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 20
      Replying to @attackerman

      Sure. And the information ALSO references a September convo that was destroyed (and doesn't dispute that the mid-August one was, as described, innocuous).

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Spencer Ackerman‏Verified account @attackerman Feb 20
      Replying to @emptywheel

      You think the cash ledger is a red herring? (Or are we talking past one another)

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    7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 20
      Replying to @attackerman

      No. But I think pointing to August publication of cash ledger to explain innocuous August text that was not destroyed is not a winning argument.

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Spencer Ackerman‏Verified account @attackerman Feb 20
      Replying to @emptywheel

      Not making an argument in the slightest. Noting a coincidence with potential explanatory capability as a possible hypothesis for the reconnection.

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    9. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 20
      Replying to @attackerman

      Except your coincidence is not one. Suggesting that maybe keep looking for something that is actually co-incident with an event in September?

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    10. Spencer Ackerman‏Verified account @attackerman Feb 20
      Replying to @emptywheel

      Maybe.

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Feb 20
      Replying to @attackerman

      All I'm saying is you don't have a coincidence. You have a likely explanation for a coverup a month later, but the Q of timing remains unexplained and obviously key.

      12:14 PM - 20 Feb 2018
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        2. Matthew Shadle‏ @Matthew_Shadle Feb 20
          Replying to @emptywheel @attackerman

          Here is a key point as to timing. On Aug. 25 2016 the Kyiv Post reported a memo linking Manafort to the Skadden report more closely than had been known before, in the midst of an ongoing investigation into the former Justice Minister. https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/memo-manafort-worked-on-report-that-justified-tymoshenko-imprisonment-421671.html …pic.twitter.com/kxax1cZjHh

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        3. Matthew Shadle‏ @Matthew_Shadle Feb 20
          Replying to @Matthew_Shadle @emptywheel @attackerman

          And some time in September 2016 the Ukrainian government sent a request to Comey for assistance in interviewing Manafort as part of the investigation into the Justice Minister. https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/manafort-ukraine …pic.twitter.com/o4hGu1OOZE

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        4. Matthew Shadle‏ @Matthew_Shadle Feb 20
          Replying to @Matthew_Shadle @emptywheel @attackerman

          Also worth remembering that the FBI may have had a FISA warrant on Manafort by that point.https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/paul-manafort-government-wiretapped-fisa-russians/index.html …

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