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am_Unition  ·  1573 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Unredacted Ukraine Documents Reveal Extent of Pentagon’s Legal Concerns

Agree, that write-up was amateur, but maybe it's a lesson in the ills of associating factual information with a certain type of (more efficient, more formal, and more neutral?) prose like NYT, WaPo, WSJ. And how did Just Security score the unredacted emails? I'd never heard of them before today, and "I google 'Trump' at least five times every day, because I hate myself", but don't quote me on that.

Although there is no reputable reporting of it yet, I suspect that the redactions may criminally implicate William Barr. I have a hard time believing that this process couldn't involve him intimately, since any dumbass can see that it all directly implicates Trump, firstly. It's quite like a serious attempt at re-creating Watergate, which we Hubskites (Hubskians? is there a consensus?) have previously "joked" about. But why the hell would we have these systems of bureaucratic accounting (which produced these verryyyyy important emails) if not to protect against the self-dealing corruption that the impeachment effort aims to remove?

To rehash it all, in case anyone hasn't heard:

Trump illegally withheld Congressionally approved funding to a crucial US and EU ally, Ukraine. The funding was designed to enable a better defense against the Russian forces currently occupying a strategic region of Ukraine (Crimea). In addition to the defense funding, Trump also leveraged a White House visit for the new Ukrainian president in exchange for an announcement that he would open up two investigations in Ukraine. One investigation would look into Trump's foremost upcoming political rival, Joe Biden, and his son. The other would undermine the findings of the entire US intelligence community that it was Putin/Russia who overwhelmingly meddled in the 2016 election.

BTW, Hunter Biden mos def had no bidness being on the Burisma bidness board without knowin' the bidness, especially with daddy being VPOTUS. But my god, if we're going to talk about weird shit with US executive branch children... Is every one of Trump's complaints and attacks a projection? It's gotta be somewhere around 90%+. He legit believes that everyone behaves just like he does, like no one has principles or aspires to a greater good. SAD





cgod  ·  1572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just Security is a respected outlet amongst national security nerds.

I don't follow them all that close but great journalist Shane Harris and Benjamin Wittis mention them often.

am_Unition  ·  1570 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Benjamin Wittis

For posterity, it's Benjamin Wittes*, I believe.

cgod  ·  1569 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right you are