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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 6:48:30 GMT -6
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 7:46:07 GMT -6
I'm proud of myself for getting my run in before this starts. Otherwise I'd probably skip it because I didn't sleep much lol
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:09:17 GMT -6
We're live and Lindsey is praising Yates, which I did not see coming. So this will be the "attack Comey, McCabe, Strzok and Page" show
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:16:33 GMT -6
this is so dumb. Trump was publicly calling for John Kerry and Chris Murphy to be prosecuted under the Logan Act, and now Lindsey is screaming about how the Logan Act is dumb and doesn't matter
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:25:02 GMT -6
I made us a bingo card aww man I can't get the Imgur link to work. The squares on the card are: Grassley coughs John Brennan IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU Marsha says something racist "DISRUPTIVE INVESTIGATION" Someone reads a Strzok/Page text out loud Hawley raises his voice "They ruined General Flynn's life!" Peter Strzok
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:35:41 GMT -6
sounds like Ms Yates' "shock at what was being discussed" was not that she was in any way shocked by what POTUS or VPOTUS said, but of what Team 45* and Russian did
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:40:47 GMT -6
ok this makes waayyyyy more sense than Yates being alarmed by a vast conspiracy that outraged Yates. She sat in on the IC briefing on Russian interference because AG Lynch was unavailable. Yates went into the meeting not knowing about the Flynn intercepts, and she confronted Comey about the fact that she hadn't been told. Well, she had an appointment with the National Security Department lawyers that very afternoon during which they planned to brief her. It was just an unfortunate timing situation.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:41:45 GMT -6
Yates: If POTUS or VPOTUS were doing anything political or untoward, I would have flipped the fuck out on them at the time and I would still be flipping out now
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:42:58 GMT -6
Yates: yeah I don't feel great about the Horowitz report
Graham: well why was everyone in the Obama Department of Justice Lying McGarbage?
Yates: I mean, they fucked up
Graham: Y U SIGN THE FISA WARRANTS THO
Yates: well if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have signed it, dumbass
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:44:37 GMT -6
Yates: I don't remember the VP saying much at all, much less mentioning the Logan Act. I think maybe Director Comey mentioned it.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:44:54 GMT -6
slap fight between Leahy and Graham
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:45:37 GMT -6
Yates: FLynn's conduct could have violated the Logan Act but that really wasn't our concern or our focus at the time, THE RUSSIANS WERE MESSING UP OUR ELECTION
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:46:34 GMT -6
come on Lindsey. She's a lawyer and so are you. You know she is going to be extremely careful with her wording. Let her answer your questions.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:47:03 GMT -6
Yates: I didn't authorize the Flynn interview because that wasn't my job. But I fully believe "there was a legitimate basis for that interview"
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:48:16 GMT -6
Graham: why would you investigate interference in an election that was already over?
FUCKING WHAT??!??!?!?!?!?!
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:50:08 GMT -6
Graham: did I violate the Logan Act when I told Israel what to do?
Yates: um, yeah.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:51:28 GMT -6
Yates: this wasn't about negotiating or talking about future policy after the transition, this was Flynn "undermining current policy"
Graham: LOUD NOISES
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:53:04 GMT -6
ok Lindsey is questioning in circles. He's not listening to her answers, and then is stomping all over things she already covered.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:53:29 GMT -6
Di Fi becomes the second Democrat to plead with Graham to listen to the witness whose testimony he requested
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:56:47 GMT -6
Yates: I can't think of an interview that would have been more important at the time than that with Flynn in determining if any Americans were (wittingly or unwittingly) aiding the Russians. Totally appropriate to conduct that interview. It would have been dereliction of duty not to interview General Flynn.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:57:06 GMT -6
Yates: Flynn's lies were "absolutely material to the legitimate investigation"
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 8:58:27 GMT -6
Flynn's conduct was "neutering the American sanctions...and then lying about it. He was covering it up. So the agents really needed to understand what the relationship was between General Flynn and the Russians." And if Flynn had been honest about what he said on the phone, the FBI would have discovered what Mueller eventually did:
COLLUSION
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 9:00:14 GMT -6
Yates: Flynn knew his lies were problematic because he intentionally didn't document his discussions, knowing that his conduct was inappropriate and illegal
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 9:03:06 GMT -6
Imma just liveblog the rest of this in the form of John Mulaney gifs
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 9:04:53 GMT -6
Feinstein: was the Flynn case "highly irregular?" Yates: well, yeah. I mean, I don't think the government did anything weird leading up to or during trial, but revoking a prosecution after the defendant had twice plead guilty is weird.
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 9:05:31 GMT -6
Grassley:
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 9:08:04 GMT -6
Grassley: WHo wAs PaYiNG fOr THe StEeLe DoSSiEr?! Yates:
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 9:09:51 GMT -6
Yates never discussed the Steele Dossier with Obama or Biden and "can't imagine that any of [her] colleagues did"
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 9:10:04 GMT -6
Strzok! One Bingo square!
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Post by dc2london on Aug 5, 2020 9:14:11 GMT -6
Yates: we really tried to help Flynn recall correctly and tell the truth and he was just like It kind of sounds like, if anything, Flynn may have been given somewhat preferential treatment because they worked so hard to help him get out of trouble
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