skykiss,
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David Weiss now says the salacious conspiracies were false. With the indictment yesterday of Alexander Smirnov, the source of those false claims, Weiss confesses he is a direct witness in an attempt to frame President Joe Biden, even as Weiss attempts to bury it.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/16/david-weiss-is-a-direct-witness-to-the-crimes-on-which-he-indicted-alexander-smirnov/

#corrupt #republicans #DoJ

skykiss, (edited )
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Rep. Goldman: House Republicans have been acting as an agent or an asset of Russian intelligence for Vladimir Putin.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #disinformation #op #psyop #election #interference #arrestputin #PutinIsaWarCriminal #mindwar #RepublicansAreTheProblem #republiCON

paezha,
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@skykiss

Also Chuck Grassley

leswarden,
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Wikisteff,
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@skykiss I've been thinking this for a while (at least at the "useful idiot" level), but it's nice to hear a sitting Senator say it.

MylesRyden,
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@Wikisteff @skykiss

I have been beyond the "useful idiot" stage for quite some time now.

For me, it is the number of other countries that this kind of thing is happening in. My assumption is that Russian money is financing it all.

Wikisteff,
@Wikisteff@mastodon.social avatar

@MylesRyden @skykiss In some cases, it's so obvious that my friend @andrea coined what I call "Andrea's Law": you should not continue to attribute to incompetence what is better and more obviously explained by malice.

MylesRyden,
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@Wikisteff @skykiss @andrea

Agreed.

I would add in the famous adage: Follow the money.

Wikisteff,
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@MylesRyden @skykiss @andrea Global financial flow transparency would be the most effective possible anti-corruption measure.

skykiss, (edited )
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What did Comer and Jordan know, and when did they know it?

❗ Also Chuck Grassley had the Russian disinformation before even the #fbi

It appears Republicans have been acting as an agent or an asset of Russian intelligence for Vladimir Putin to interfere in our elections.

Please remember that Vladimir Putin, the monster who is doing this, is not only friends with Donald Trump but has had private conversations with Elon Musk and is currently one of the most beloved figures of the entire Republican Party
The people you are willing to associate with say everything about you.

Biden impeachment farce hit a snag when the guy who provided the fake "evidence" was indicted by the #DoJ for making false statements to the #fbi.

In other words: He made the whole thing up. Then we learned that the informant has ties to war criminal Putin. Republicans are Putin's allies and willing partners.

#disinformation #RussiaIsATerroristState
#republicansAreTheProblem #BigLies

JYeo18,

@skykiss I seem to recall that a group of key GOP leaders, instead of celebrating Independence Day in their districts, had a strategy session with one of the world’s most brutal dictators.

DavidMHarlan,
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@JYeo18 @skykiss

on the motherfucking Fourth of July

barney,
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@skykiss

This exemplifies why it's important that Merrick Garland refuses to prosecute or even investigate any elected Republican, no matter what crimes they have committed. If there is no penalty for helping a foreign enemy commit acts of war against the US (and there isn't), then the treason will continue.

In Garland's defense, I'm not sure he could have done much better. He's forced to rely heavily on the FBI, which is rotten with insurrectionists from top to bottom.

skykiss,
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Trump-led plot to secure disinformation and manufactured evidence from known Kremlin agents in order to steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election, with the sought to frame President Joe Biden and that Trump and his agents knew were made up.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

STOP THESE FASCIST CRIMINALS AND THEIR MASSIVE CRIME WAVE. It is an unrelenting assault on our Democracy.

skykiss, (edited )
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Bill Barr and then US Attorney recruited by Barr to filter all the Rudy Russian #disinformation Scott Brady did NOT indict Smirnov, & closed the case (though Barr vehemently denies closing the case & says it was handed off to David Weiss in October 2020).

Smirnov was recently arrested and arraigned, both for lying and falsifying a document in 2020, and repeating those lies & adding new ones in 2023. David Weiss argued that Smirnov is a flight risk & should be detained pending his trial. However, the magistrate let Smirnov out with a GPS monitor even though he acknowledged that Smirnov lied to pretrial services about how much money he had. He told them he had $5000, when he has access to $6M, & dual Israeli citizenship would allow him to get a new passport & flee the country.

Weiss filed for reconsideration of Smirnov’s release, pointing out again that he’s a flight risk, that he could be charged with perjury for lying about how much cash he has access to. He has been re-arrested.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4489716-former-fbi-informant-charged-with-lying-about-bidens-to-remain-jailed-judge/?utm_source=press.coop
🧵

lawyersgunsnmoney,
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@skykiss Do you know who the Magistrate Judge is? He or she made a monumentally bad and dangerous error by releasing the Putinista.

skykiss, (edited )
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Smirnov filed something in Nedada. While the Case is in California. The Nevada judge ordered his release, and the California Judge ordered him to be re-arrested.

Putin loving republicans went court shopping. Now, the Nevada judge, after getting his dick smacked, admits it doesn't have jurisdiction.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4489716-former-fbi-informant-charged-with-lying-about-bidens-to-remain-jailed-judge/?utm_source=press.coop

@skykiss
@lawyersgunsnmoney

#disloyal #criminal #RepublicansAreTheProblem
#russian #disinformation #to #steal #election

skykiss, (edited )
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IMPORTANT: The convicted criminal who House Republicans have now turned to in their Kremlin-backed conspiracy to interfere with the 2024 presidential election by spreading disinformation about Joe Biden is represented by Mark Paoletta, the attorney for Ginni Thomas.

That’s not all. Paoletta worked in the Trump administration.

And he is close friends with Clarence Thomas.

And his work representing Ginni Thomas focused on trying to ensure she gave no testimony to Congress—exactly the opposite of what he is doing now in bending over backwards to get almost certainly false testimony from a convicted criminal that could interfere in the 2024 presidential election before the House majority.

These are bad people and they have a plan.

Paoletta had links to Ken Klukowski—who was involved in the coup plot inside DoJ prior to January

Mark Paoletta is attorney for Jason Galanis, convicted fraud as part of the Republican disinformation attack on President Biden.

🧵
#disinformation #activemeasures #insurrection

skykiss, (edited )
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"Paoletta is a man who perhaps more than anyone else should be doing all he can to stay away from any case that smacks of election interference (the same thing we’d say of Clarence and Ginni Thomas). And what is he—and what are they—doing?"

#Corrupt Clarence smoking with his fascist republicans overlords.

We have a Trump administration attorney Paoletta aiding a convicted #criminal who’s trying to ensure Trump returns to power. And in the context of a second Trump administration undoubtedly being the most pro-Russia presidential administration in American history, we have the story being told by this criminal represented by a Trump administration attorney being one that dovetails perfectly with what we know for certain is coordinated disinformation originating from the Russian intelligence services.

Ken Klukowsk works with Felon Steve Bannon and the coup plotter Ginni Gitmo Thomas.

🧵

#russian #disinformation #election #interference #coup #insurrection #rico #crimes #putinstooge

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    @skykiss
    #Alt4You
    policies underlying grand jury secrecy requirements and noting that they remain in effect 12 after grand jury's proceedings conclude).
    The information described in Paragraphs 3 through 6 shall collectively be referred to as "Confidential Discovery."

    The purpose of the Protective Order is to (a) allow the government to comply with its discovery obligations while protecting this sensitive information from

    Finally, an order is necessary because the government intends to produce sensitive U.S. government information, including information about confidential human source operations and other ongoing investigations. Insofar as classified information is at issue, the government intends to pursue proper procedures under the Classified Information Procedures Act ("CIPA") in filings separate from this submission, including a separate CIPA Section 3 protective order. But even the unclassified discovery materials that the government intends to produce contain sensitive U.S. government information

    skykiss,
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    US Govt is seeking a protective order in the case disclosing what was fairly obvious: that the case involves sources & methods. And if there was an active order while the nitwit caucus was potting with Comrade Smirnov there's going to be a lot of panic in Dog Patch.

    Republicans disseminated disinformation from Russian intelligence to harm President Biden. The Kremlin Hunter Biden Operation is used to gain control of American political outcomes.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexander-smirnov-fbi-informant-bidens-fraudster-in-prior-case/

    🧵 8️⃣

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    cdarwin,
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    @skykiss
    JASON GALANIS was sentenced to 173 months for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and numerous pension fund investors of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds by the tribal entity.

    skykiss,
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    Mark Paoletta's client is disseminating kremlin disinformation to congress.

    @cdarwin

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