NEITHER. There was no consensus on this in the Intel Community, not even in John Brennan’s hand-picked team (he had to override two of his own analysts!). As I reported with Michael Shellenberger and alex gutentag, some analysts believed Russia preferred Clinton, some Trump:

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Okay, then. I guess it’s not significant that all of the headline claims in the dossier — “compromise,” cultivation, hackers, the “back channel” — turned out to be fake. So what was correct? You seem to know. Tell me the correct part!

I have to accurate when I tweet, because I do so under my own name and can be sued. What’s your name?

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You mean except for the part where this is only a court case because RT was banned?

Give me an example of “towing Putin’s line.”

In America, it was the platforms, but that’s still a form of censorship - and Europe flatly banned RT etc.

Ok, what takes “undermine American society”? The ones in which I argue for the First Amendment?

The Twitter Files didn’t undermine “American society,” they undermined the unconstitutional activities of the FBI, DHS, State Department, and the IRS, which visited my house while I was testifying. Doing the Twitter Files was standing up for American society.

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That’s not speech, and more likely criminally negligent homicide, but be you.

All totally true… beginning to think it has nothing to do with ideology! Excellent piece

There’s no such thing as a free speech “absolutist,” and a journalist especially can’t be one, because we have to navigate libel/defamation law. Which I’ve said about a billion times. But feel free to think I advocate mismarking bottles of poison

The man who brought you torture, mass surveillance, warrantless detention, rendition, drone murder, and the Iraq war knows enough not to say anyone is a bigger threat to "democracy" than he was. Democrats will take "threat to our republic." Dick Cheney is the new party ideal!

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