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Great scoop from
@KFaulders,@Santucci, and@Elizabeth_McLau. As a lawyer at OMB, I worked on appropriations issues all the time. What the Trump administration is discussing here is illegal, plain and simple. Thread
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Truth: No immigrants have been arrested at the border in recent years on terrorism related charges. Thanks to
@NicholasRasmu15 and@nedprice for helping me sort this out.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/fact-check-did-u-s-catch-4-000-terrorists-southern-n954796 …Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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#HR1, the#ForThePeople Act, takes on the dark money flows from abroad that have infected our politics. Whether it’s Russia secretly funding the NRA or Gulf countries purchasing political influence in Washington, this subversion of our democracy must end.https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1081220958487228416 …Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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@PressSec is right that terrorists have attempted to cross the border--our NORTHERN border. Remember Ahmed Ressam, the would-be "Millennium Bomber?" Re our southern border,@JuliaEAinsley is spot on. And this 2018 State Department report reinforces that: https://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2017/282846.htm …https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1081196889050148864 …Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Hard to imagine a better, more qualified head of CIA analysis than Didi Rapp. She’s among the best bosses I had at CIA, and many others feel the same.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/under-haspel-more-agency-vets-and-women-take-top-posts-at-cia/ …
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New: Paul Whelan doesn’t fit the profile of an undercover spy. But he does fit the profile of someone Russia would detain if Moscow’s angling for a prisoner swap for Maria Butina. W/ commentary from
@nedprice@McFaul@Billbrowderhttps://www.businessinsider.com/paul-whelan-espionage-russia-maria-butina-intel-veterans-react-2019-1 …Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
From the frequency and stridency of her tweets, it seems that of all the administration policies and decisions,
@NikkiHaley most vehemently disagrees with the ban on taking her Twitter followers with her. Imagine if she showed half this interest after Charlottesville....https://twitter.com/nikkihaley/status/1080859315936940032 …Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
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WATCH:
@nedprice joined@MSNBC last night to discuss the arrest of an American citizen in Russia. This comes just weeks after Russian spy Maria Butina pleaded guilty to seeking to influence American politics.pic.twitter.com/iekXPj2S4pThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
There's a solid substantive case for this action in the context of China, but shouldn't the Whelan case provoke a similar warning for Russia?https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46753716 …
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That's why I'm skeptical the Trump administration will be either strident or creative in seeking Whelan's release in such an arrangement. For them, there's an easy out--Whelan for Butina--and I'm concerned they'll take it. If they do, private American citizens will pay the price.
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The challenge in this case is that Putin and Trump's interests with Butina are aligned. Putin wants her back, and the Trump White House has every incentive to ensure that the full extent of her penetration of America's conservative movement, including the NRA, aren't made public.
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Would such an arrangement be possible in this case? Perhaps--but only if both Moscow and Washington have in custody (almost certainly on unrelated charges) individuals who have worked on behalf of the other government. Only then could a similar arrangement work.
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It then became a pure spy swap--our spy for theirs--and Gross, who was unjustly detained all along, was freed discretely but simultaneously on humanitarian grounds. The moves were announced together upon the normalization of relations in December 2014.https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/17/371453374/prisoner-exchange-with-cuba-led-to-freedom-for-top-u-s-spy …
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But, in the context of broader talks to normalize relations, a solution was found: Gross would be released on separate humanitarian grounds. The Obama administration then approved the swap of the imprisoned Cuban spies in return for a US intelligence asset (spy) detained in Cuba.
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The Obama administration recognized that agreeing to this arrangement would play into Cuban propaganda by equating Gross, a development professional, with actual Cuban spies, whose mission it was to undermine our national security. It was a non-starter.
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That's why it can't be a 1-for-1 swap. The Obama administration faced a similar situation in 2014. The Cubans wanted to swap Alan Gross, a former USAID contractor whom they had baselessly accused of espionage, for members of the so-called "Cuban 5" spy ring detained in the US.
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First, the danger. Swapping Whelan for Butina, who has pleaded guilty to the charges she faces as a Russian agent, would signal to Moscow that any private US citizen is fair game to extract the release of its own agents. All Americans in Russia would be placed in harm's way.
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THREAD: Paul Whelan's release must be a priority, but a 1-for-1 swap for Maria Butina would set a dangerous precedent. There are creative, strategic ways to avoid it, including a model from 2014, which the Trump administration would be wise to consider. (I won't hold my breath).https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1080855029857300480 …
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There could be nothing more on-brand than Trump trying to have it both ways in Syria -- seeking the political credit from his base for fulfilling a popular campaign promise while slow-walking, or even halting, any actual withdrawal of troops.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1079727034673311746 …
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[THREAD] Two recent deaths in U.S. custody have returned a much-needed spotlight on the Trump-Pence administration’s treatment of children at the border - revealing a disturbing pattern of awful acts done by our government. Let’s review this grim year …https://nyti.ms/2RfYUD0
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