As far as Nunes can tell, none of us have even met with Trump

[PerkingFaintly]

Devin Nunes Gets A Pretty Basic Fact Wrong In Defending His Memo
Nunes suggested that Donald Trump had never met with George Papadopoulos. There's a photo of them sitting at the same table.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/devin-nunes-memo_us_5a788b57e4b01fe513a60603

And we certainly didn't have a national security meeting right here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3150505-The-one-in-which-Trump-orders-his-staff-to-fire-Mueller-and-they-give-him-the-finger?pg=1

It's a pity Jesse Owens isn't around to comment.

Trump has blocked release of the Democrats’ memo. Rep. Adam Schiff’s statement is below.

Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiff 53 mins
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After ignoring urging of FBI & DOJ not to release misleading Nunes memo because it omits material facts, @POTUS now expresses concerns over sharing precisely those facts with public and seeks to send it back to the same Majority that produced the flawed Nunes memo to begin with:

Hear, hear Amy Siskind. We must not stop paying attention!

Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind 10m10 minutes ago
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Don’t lose the outrage about Trump allowing the release of the Nunes memo, but not the Democratic rebuttal which the House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to release. The moment we stop paying attention and caring about these acts which erode norms and democracy he wins.

And yet another one

Evan Rosenfeld
@Evan_Rosenfeld
BREAKING: WaPo: The abrupt departure of speechwriter David Sorensen comes after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent two-and-a-half-year marriage — allegations that he vehemently denied www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/09/a-second-white-house-aide-has-resigned-amid-past-domestic-abuse-allegations-which-he-denies/

That Fox piece is astonshing.

I also don't think Trump ever intended to release the memo.

Jim Crow by another name.

thinkprogress.org/arkansas-lawsuit-voter-id-984c6396a608/

Sorry! It's Saturday and this must be a sign! (Of what, I don't know! )

Corgi/Pony 2024
twitter.com/jaketapper/status/961817770915643393

White nationalist can't find a lawyer to defend him for Charlottesville

White supremacist Richard Spencer recently filed a motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit that seeks to hold him responsible for the violence he caused in Charlottesville,Virginia, last August. Spencer argues that he can't find a lawyer to represent him because his case is too "controversial." He further claims that last summer's violent, hate-inspired rally should be accepted as the "cost of free assembly and maintaining a vibrant political culture."
thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/372914-white-nationalist-cant-find-a-lawyer-to-defend-him-for-charlottesville

'The TWP is “intimately allied with neo-Nazi and other hardline racist organizations” and “advocates for racially pure nations”, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Its leaders have praised Trump, and the group claimed to bring more than 100 people to the Charlottesville white supremacist rally, where a counter-protester was killed.'

www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/09/california-police-white-supremacists-counter-protest

Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸
@DemWrite
Dallas County Republicans have filed a lawsuit to strip 128 Democrats from the ballot, saying the Dem Party Chair didn’t sign their forms, as required by statute.

If successful, there could be a clean GOP sweep here in November. h/t @NorthTXBlue

www.salon.com/2018/01/22/texas-republicans-are-trying-to-purge-democrats-from-ballots-report/

Joy Reid
@JoyAnnReid
One of our two major parties has effectively stopped believing in democracy.

Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
The Porter episode has brought a lot of latent frustrations with Kelly among staff to the surface. But most think Trump is trying to torture him, not prepare to fire him.

Kelly is a retired military general who hss faced worse than Trump calling people and back-biting. But the situation in the WH has devolved, esp as Kelly has almost no deputies left.

If Kelly leaves, however, a lot of people are likely to follow, a fact that doesn't seem to have been quite thought through.

Conspirador Norteño
@conspirator0
There was a burst in activity on the #FireRosenstein hashtag this past weekend. Let's see what there is to see, shall we? (thanks @SpencerH8sTwitr for putting us on the hunt)

mobile.twitter.com/conspirator0/status/962179751946407936

Tim Miller
@Timodc
Friend texts pointing out that people were spiked from WH jobs after background check revealed 1 anti-Trump tweet while credibly accused wife beater soared up the org chart. Gives a good sense of priorities.

Business Insider
@businessinsider
Winter Olympics organizers say a cyberattack took down their computer servers during opening ceremonies: read.bi/2skGDZV

Spencer Ackerman
@attackerman
All 13 intel-committee Republicans, supported by Paul Ryan, voted to declassify a memo alleging surveillance abuses vs a man about whom a Russian spy said on tape was an eager tool.
Should Carter Page not have been surveilled? I asked them all. Ryan too.

amp.thedailybeast.com/republicans-wont-say-if-spying-on-carter-page-was-wrong?__twitter_impression=true

Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
CNN: North Korea has officially invited South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in to visit Pyongyang, according to South Korea’s presidential office.

ABC 7 Chicago
@ABC7Chicago
Feds: anti-abortion activist linked to Christian terror group planned clinic attacks: abc7.ws/2nNzgVo

Leader of #NorthKorea’s sister Kim Yo-jong and #DPRK delegation meeting President of #SouthKorea Moon Jae-in at the Blue House in Seoul now. This to be followed by lunch. This is a huge geopolitical development which is infuriating the Trump administration.
twitter.com/stephenmcdonell/status/962153658770079745

Did Vice President Pence miss an opportunity by not engaging in any way with the North Koreans?
"He did. His behavior was boorish and politically tone-deaf," @FrankJannuzi tells @johnyangtv.
twitter.com/newshour/status/962110906535624704

The whole thing of the north & south Koreans pulling together is so interesting. It struck me that south Korea has realised:

a) the US is quite happy for them to be collateral damage if Donny’s itchy nuke finger hits the button;
b) the US has bowed out of being a credible broker on the international diplomacy stage so its no use looking to them for help;
c) Finding their own solutions for breaking N Korea out of splendid isolation & bringing them back in the fold is the best way forwards for S Korea if they don’t want to be nuked to dust.

The irony is that the US risks becoming a pariah state if they keep this up.

The unintended consequences are something to behold boatyard

Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
NYT reported that AAG Rachel Brand's assistant Currie Gunn had left the Justice Department. We've confirmed that Gunn has gone to work for DC Circuit Judge Greg
Katsas

Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
Got a bit more on this: Currie Gunn is Katsas' judicial assistant, and she started there very recently (don't have a date yet)

Carl Schreck
@CarlSchreck
Wow. RFE/RL's Russian Service and other media outlets receive notice from Russian federal media watchdog saying their reports on the @navalny investigation of Deripaska/Prikhodko yacht meeting have been blacklisted by court decision.

Bill Browder
@Billbrowder
Navalny really struck a nerve by ridiculing Kremlin official Prihodko, Deripaska and a young ‘model’ on Deripaska’s yacht. Took 24 hours for the censors to shut it down.

Clint Watts
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Verified account

@selectedwisdom
Feb 8
Recap, Trump’s CIA Director calls Wikileaks/Assange hostile actor, Assange mistakenly tips fake Hannity account on Warner dirt, 10 days later Warner texts surface FoxNews - if FoxNews worked with Assange to get texts, @FoxNews working with enemy of US www.thedailybeast.com/julian-assange-thought-he-was-messaging-sean-hannity-when-he-offered-news-on-democrat-investigating-trump-russia …

I'm struggling to keep up, so here are and in gratitude to the stalwarts.

Republicans wanted this released too (well they voted for it to be released any how) but sure

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods (and more), would have to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would blame the White House for lack of transparency. Told them to re-do and send back in proper form

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
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Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?

Natasha Bertrand
@NatashaBertrand
The Intercept piece paints the IC as reluctant to accept damaging information about Trump because of Pompeo's loyalty to him. The NYT tells a much more convincing story: The IC was wary of a Russian operation that had all the hallmarks of a disinformation campaign.

Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance
Agree! CIA exercised excellent tradecraft & counterintelligence sense by recognizing this trap designed to destroy CIA trust w/Trump. If they had bit & accepted Russians would have revealed every tape, photo & text to Trump to show “Deep State” conspiracy. Civil war would ensue.