Even if you subpoena us, we won't turn up on the Trump threads

[PerkingFaintly]

Oh whoops, here we are.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3180160-Trump-talk-HOW-MUCH-for-that-inauguration?pg=1

No. Not at all. It would probably have a devastating effect on the entire eco-system.

The trouble is that he wants to be a king. But Brenda ranks. He hasn't got the heritage or the consecration.

So Alexandr Kogan / Spectre also worked for St Petersburg University.

He informed his head of department at Cambridge University of a potential collaboration, per regs, but not his friends or colleagues at Cambridge University, and he left it off his CV (while including minutiae such as undergraduate prizes).

Cambridge Analytica, however, did know about his work at St Petersburg University: "We may want to either loop in or find out a bit more about the interesting work Alex Kogan has been doing for the Russians and see how/if it applies"

(Pain's link again: www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-academic-trawling-facebook-had-links-to-russian-university)

Christopher Wylie on Bannon (from that same link).

“Smart,” says Wylie. “Interesting. Really interested in ideas. He’s the only straight man I’ve ever talked to about intersectional feminist theory. He saw its relevance straightaway to the oppressions that conservative, young white men feel.”

I am so glad that a spotlight is finally being shone on this. Have been banging on about this (admittedly mainly on here ) for so long, as have lots of you, and it a relief that we might be able to have a national conversation about this. Perhaps we might actually try to investigate this (I know it would upend all the Brexiters so it's unlikely that we'll have a mueller or anything close to a thorough look at what happened re: brexit any time soon but I'll take whatever hope I can find)

Chuka Umunna
@ChukaUmunna
.@BorisJohnson - the leading figure in Vote Leave - is about the only person in diplomatic circles I’ve come across who doesn’t think there was Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum #Marr

Shameful but also unsurprising.

shareblue.com/trump-administration-secret-emails-civil-servant-sahar-nowrouzzadeh/

The Trump administration plotted the removal of a career civil servant with expertise on Iranian nuclear issues, newly uncovered emails now reveal.

'Following the lead of smear artists at conservative propaganda sites, the Trump administration tried to oust Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, an expert working at the State Department on Iranian issues. She also may have been targeted for this harassment due to her ethnicity, which would violate federal anti-discrimination laws.'

Did anyone hear, R4 this morning. 50 ways to leave the White House?

CNN
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Rep. Eric Swalwell on McCabe's firing: "To me, being a former prosecutor, it looks like they're trying to dirty him up. They figure that there's more charges from Mueller coming down the pike and that eventually McCabe is going to be a figure in a trial" cnn.it/2FNYL0E

I've been wondering about the legal status of a 'Memo'....

Asha Rangappa
@AshaRangappa_
PSA: FBI Agents write down everything. Especially if it's w a person who is acting very hinky, the interactions are ethically suspect, and there is a good chance the party will deny what happened later. Oh, and contemporaneous written recordings carry a lot of evidentiary weight.

There was an even more detailed thread that I saw last night - will try to find it

I'm losing track, lionheart! Where is Wylie saying that about Bannon and feminism?

It was Renato

Renato Mariotti
@renato_mariotti
THREAD: Why does it matter that Andrew McCabe wrote memos memorializing his conversations with Trump shortly after they happened?
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1/ Minutes ago, the Associated Press reported that Andrew McCabe wrote memos memorializing his conversations with Trump shortly after they occurred. McCabe was the former FBI Deputy Director (and Acting Director) who was fired by Trump late last night.
2/ @Comey famously wrote memos of his conversations with Trump, which formed the basis of his testimony before a Senate Committee. His testimony sparked the appointment of Mueller and the obstruction investigation.
3/ So why do the memos matter? The conversations between Trump and McCabe were almost certainly not recorded, so the memory of the people in the conversations is the best record we have of what Trump said. If McCabe and Trump spoke alone, it’s McCabe’s word against Trump’s.
4/ FBI agents like McCabe are trained to write detailed memos of conversations so they can refresh their memory later. A memo written shortly after a conversation will be more detailed than unwritten memories years later, when the agent has to testify at a trial.
5/ The memos themselves would generally NOT be admissible in court. They would be used by McCabe to refresh his memory. He could also tell the jury that he wrote memos and was testifying after reviewing the memos.
6/ If the defense counsel suggested that McCabe’s memory wasn’t accurate or that he was fabricating what Trump said, the memos could be admitted into evidence. (It’s a rule called “prior consistent statement.”) The memos could also be used to refresh McCabe’s memory.
7/ But this is really big news for a different reason. The real news is that McCabe thought Trump said something so problematic that he believed it was important for him to write contemporaneous memos of their conversations.
8/ It is odd for a FBI Director or Deputy Director to write private memos of his conversations with the President. This news suggests McCabe thought that he might later need to testify about those conversations in court.
9/ This could mean even more evidence for Mueller to use against Trump as part of his obstruction investigation. The obstruction case against Trump is already strong, as I wrote last month in @POLITICOMag:

www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/26/mueller-trump-obstruction-of-justice-russia-216532

10/ At this point, it appears that Trump is unconcerned about potential liability, given his continued tweets attacking the FBI and DOJ. It remains to be seen what the consequences of his actions will be, but he continues to build an obstruction case against himself. /end

Sorry, I've been cycling through the different pieces from the Observer.

It's in this profile Perking.

www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump

And Rebekah Mercer.

“The gays. She loved the gays. So did Steve [Bannon]. He saw us as early adopters. He figured, if you can get the gays on board, everyone else will follow. It’s why he was so into the whole Milo [Yiannopoulos] thing.”

Ta, lionheart. Long reading list this morning!

OK, that most recent Guardian link is the one to read if you're interested but don't have time to read everything. It's long and touches on most aspects.

The Cambridge Analytica Files
‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower
www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump

Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla
NEW: 'Facebook "misled" MPs.'
'Zuckerberg needs to testify to parliament.'
Strong words from head of UK fake news inquiry, @DamianCollins

www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/cambridge-analytica-and-facebook-accused-of-misleading-mps-over-data-breach?CMP=share_btn_tw

Christopher Wylie
@chrisinsilico
Suspended by @facebook. For blowing the whistle. On something they have known privately for 2 years.

twitter.com/chrisinsilico/status/975335430043389952

Carole Cadwalladr
‏*@carolecadwalla*
More Carole Cadwalladr Retweeted Christopher Wylie
This is unconscionable. Facebook's response to the Cambridge Analytica data debacle? To ban the whistleblower. Please retweet. This is NOT okay.

Can we call you a fake president?

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Spent very little time with Andrew McCabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. I don’t believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them Fake Memos?

He is so desperate.

And some others.

Donald J. Trump
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38m38 minutes ago

Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when asked “have you ever been an anonymous source...or known someone else to be an anonymous source...?” He said strongly “never, no.” He lied as shown clearly on @foxandfriends.

39m39 minutes ago

Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when asked “have you ever been an anonymous source...or known someone else to be an anonymous source...?” He said strongly “never, no.” He lied as shown clearly on @foxandfriends.

6m6 minutes ago

Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added...does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!

Can we call you a fake president?

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Spent very little time with Andrew McCabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. I don’t believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them Fake Memos?

Wow. He’s really lashing out at everyone. Desperation, yes - these are dangerous times for democracy. Surely we must be close to the point at which the GOP will say “enough.”

Sam Stein
@samstein
Everyone focused on Trump melting down right now, and deservedly so. But the real story seems, to me at least, to be the continued absence of public concern from elected Republican leaders over what seems increasingly likely to be coming.

Hell, he's so THICK. Mueller is a Republican, as is McCabe, Rosenstein etc etc

Desperation, the net is closing