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You're going to want to read

artappraiser — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:36:52 +0000

In reply to President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project

You're going to want to read this:
Inside the Mueller team decision to dispute BuzzFeed’s explosive story on Trump suborning perjury. A scoop-filled look at how the special counsel came to issue an unprecedented public statement @mattzap @devlinbarrett https://t.co/KW3uXf0ZYB
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) January 20, 2019

Ronan Farrow turned down same

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:38:50 +0000

In reply to President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project

Ronan Farrow turned down parts of same narrative:

I can’t speak to Buzzfeed’s sourcing, but, for what it’s worth, I declined to run with parts of the narrative they conveyed based on a source central to the story repeatedly disputing the idea that Trump directly issued orders of that kind.
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) January 19, 2019

Will Brand shares similar

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 15:22:01 +0000

In reply to Very good supposition

Will Brand shares similar Watergate anecdote:

1. Today reminds me a lot of one of the most talked-about episodes during Woodward and Bernstein's historic reporting on Watergate, which is probably better remembered as a key plot point in the "All the President's Men" movie.
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) January 19, 2019

1) they want to make clear

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 06:04:00 +0000

In reply to Very good supposition

1) they want to make clear they don't/didn't leak, 2) Mueller is close to using this info and can't have it tainted w inaccuracies

As Marcy notes, much of this was long known, but 1) came through NYT's chummy "access" connections rather than journalism, 2) they always give it a mushy spin rather than Ben's no nonsense summary: Trump told Cihen to lie to Congress. Still, dictating Don Jr's lying letter on the plane is not knew, nor is meeting in Trump Tower w Russians about "adoptions" (cough, blowjob). It's just people are starting to care, and certainly a Dem investigation will go somewhere, whereas Nunes' wouldn't.

eta: and the dumbfuck continues with his Crooked Hillary line - will be so pleased when he goes to jail

More of same:

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 04:38:24 +0000

In reply to some deconstruction of legal

More of same:

Marcy Wheeler argues, and I agree, that the leak came from the SDNY. And, yes, the SC freaked about it.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 19, 2019

Senator Lieu's

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 01:56:38 +0000

In reply to President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project

Senator Lieu's #FridayThoughts are not with Buzzfeed's communications:

This tweet by @realDonaldTrump may be a felony.

18 U.S.C. § 1512(b):

"Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens ... or attempts to do so ... with intent to ... influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person ...." is guilty of a felony.#FridayThoughts https://t.co/MDK6Z50WmW
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 18, 2019

some deconstruction of legal

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 01:47:51 +0000

In reply to Well, as the many comments

some deconstruction of legal linguistics (or tea leaf reading if you prefer) I see going on:

In response to the statement tonight from the Special Counsel's spokesman: We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he's disputing.
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) January 19, 2019

This is an important distinction https://t.co/ENvP46oahd
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 19, 2019

Trying to decide what I think about this. "Disputes report" is a little strong, only because we really don't know from this statement how much the Special Counsel is saying is inaccurate. It could be just a piece of the report, or a good chunk of it. https://t.co/zsp8e1Z4a8
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 19, 2019

Good point https://t.co/LcCrqWcr7M
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) January 19, 2019

Very good supposition

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 01:32:18 +0000

In reply to President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project

Very good supposition regarding Wolraich's basic question of "why haven't they said anything before?":

Clarity. For two years, stories, whether accurate or not, had no political consequences b/c Ryan didn't do anything. When House Dems start to take news stories as potential evidence to start essentially legal proceedings, Mueller's office has an interest in correcting. https://t.co/6GYPhOVyQr
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 19, 2019

Well, as the many comments

moat — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:58:25 +0000

In reply to Axios on Mueller's office's

Well, as the many comments point out on both Tweets, which part is not accurate is not revealed.

May the pulling out of hair resume.

Axios on Mueller's office's

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:47:58 +0000

In reply to BUT WAIT, Mueller's office

Axios on Mueller's office's on-the-record comment:

In a rare comment, the Mueller investigation is going on the record to deny the BuzzFeed report. https://t.co/u7t4hXlOOP
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 19, 2019