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Steve Herman
Steve Herman
@newsguyusa@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

The CIA is up to something and Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is the longest serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, doesn’t like it but can’t tell us about it.

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CassandraVert
CassandraVert
@CassandraVert@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

Ratcliffe has kept a pretty low profile this term, though he's surrounded by noisy clowns so it's not as hard as it might have been in other eras.

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Steve Foerster 🌐
Steve Foerster 🌐
@SteveFoerster@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

@newsguyusa Consider how damning it is that people here can readily list a dozen illegal things Wyden could mean by this and that none of them sounds out of character for the CIA.

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Steven Sandoval
Steven Sandoval
@baltakatei@twit.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

@newsguyusa Classified Epstein stuff, I imagine.

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soup2nuts
soup2nuts
@drdusty@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa

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Ruth O'Day
Ruth O'Day
@RuthODay2@chaosfem.tw replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa

Former Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has been making noise the past day or two about Canadians uniting and the need to break away from dependency on the Usians.

Normally he pals around with people like Orban in his role as chairman of the so-called International Democracy Union.

I wonder if he knows what Wyden knows.

Stephen Harper says Canada mus...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-reduce-dependence-americans-9.7074933

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Jack William Bell
Jack William Bell
@jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa

Actually he can, although it might cost him his career. But he won't go to jail.

It is fully legal for any congresscritter to 'read a text into the record' and that text can be ANYTHING due to something called the 'Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause'. Even highly classified material.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_or_Debate_Clause

There's now a ton of caselaw after several administrations tried to prosecute anyway. But everyone who ever did it paid a price.

Speech or Debate Clause - Wikipedia

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skua
skua
@skua@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa

Does Tulsi Gabbard having the whistle blown on her, Intersect with the CIA?

#CIA #TulsiGabbard

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Matthew Martin
Matthew Martin
@mistersql@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa Using the CIA to end democracy in the US?

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isol
isol
@isol@mastodon.au replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa

They're planning a movie:

"C.I.A. - Cute, Intelligent, American
MELANIA Volume 2"

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xs4me2
xs4me2
@xs4me2@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa

Ah, guess they want to send Trump to St. Helen finally.

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bouriquet
bouriquet
@bouriquet@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa The list is getting longer:
- Venezuela
- Greenland
- Iran
- Epstein connections to who knows what intelligence services
- election interference via Russia
- Canada
- Mexico
- Cuba
- Georgia and whatever Tulsi is up to
- fill in the blanks or wait a few weeks

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FediThing :progress_pride:
FediThing :progress_pride:
@FediThing@social.chinwag.org replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa

Is this a typical thing that US senators might do? 😦

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Thomas P. Moonis
Thomas P. Moonis
@MisterMoo@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa seems bad

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Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
@Edelruth@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa

Never seen an intelligence committee member send an SOS before. That's what this feels like.

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@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Edelruth @newsguyusa Wyden has a reputation for these signals: https://www.justsecurity.org/42341/ron-wyden-lights-batsignal/

Just Security

Ron Wyden Lights the Batsignal

There’s a reason privacy advocates are fond of Sen. Ron Wyden, and its not just because he routinely champions legislation aimed at protecting civil liberties. From his perch on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Wyden is uniquely well situated to spot intelligence programs that strain the limits of the law or unduly encroach on Americans’ privacy. […]
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Jonas Trostle
Jonas Trostle
@jonas_trostle@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa doesn't he get immunity from the speech and debate clause?

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Will
Will
@scandigonian@pnw.zone replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa
Yikes 😬

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Kallisti
Kallisti
@kallisti@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa Well if Holden Bloodfeast, respectable bipartisan, is concerned, then it *must* be bad

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Nicole Parsons
Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Republican billionaires buying another pointless oil war?"

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nightdream
nightdream
@nightdream@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa I'm sure it's nothing to worry about 🙄

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FurballsNHairballs
FurballsNHairballs
@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@newsguyusa
Interference in US elections ?
Assisting in seizing voter records?
Eliminating opposition in Venezuela?

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Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
@Edelruth@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@ChrisHolladay @newsguyusa

Advanced Intel infiltration of Iran, ahead of open hostilities?

Just thinking of the possibilities that are not contradicted by our realities.

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Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
@Edelruth@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@ChrisHolladay @newsguyusa

Revised thought. Gabbard is pro Russia.
Gabbard has the CIA in her stable of 18 intelligence agencies
The senator wrote to the CIA director
The arena in which they work is "outside the USA.
The complaint contains "many classified details".
Russia-Gabbard-details- ... Ukraine?

Sen. Wyden has "deep concerns about CIA activities."
And now I do, too

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