No, actually this is Chuck Johnson's lawyer asking to narrow SSCI request to exclude known participants in 2016 op. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/12/28/chuck-johnsons-narrowed-scope-of-what-a-russian-is/ …https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/946130278128455680 …
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Replying to @emptywheel
SSCI counsel Doss specifically says that the criteria for their investigatory inquiry is whether a person Johnson knows is of "Russian descent"
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Replying to @mtracey
Yes. And she specifically says that's a "narrowing" requested by Johnson's lawyer, which you misrepresented as a "clarification."
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Replying to @emptywheel
Doss herself refers to it as a "clarification." Her "narrowing" of the definition is in response to a request for clarification.pic.twitter.com/Z8Eh5VTSAn
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Yes. But not until after calling it a "narrowing." Again, you're misrepresenting what went on. Congrats to Johnson for making you his dupe.
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Doss might claim it's a "narrowing," but in what conceivable universe does using "Russian descent" as investigatory criteria actually *narrow* the range of the people implicated here? It expands it.
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1) How would the pre-"narrowed" phrase - "Russian persons" - have included Karim Baratov or Ike Kaveladze? 2) How is it "narrowing" the phrase "Russian persons" to include people of "Russian descent"? Sounds like an expansion. 3) Can one object & still hate Chuck Johnson?
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As purported representatives of "Russian interests," Baratov and Agalarov would still be implicated under this supposedly "narrowed" standard. But expanding the standard to "Russian descent" drastically *broadens* the range of who's implicated.pic.twitter.com/GZuBv8CdiB
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