Jack Buchanan

1. Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel want everyone to think the so-called Steele Dossier was a major source for the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. No, it wasn’t — an assessment of the “dossier” was included as an annex, which they haven’t released. Why?

I think the rest of that last tick in the PDF reads "from Paul Manafort"

gather round children and come hear the tale, of when horkos stepped beyond the pale. when the purple man, all a-fright, confronted the HPSCI memo with no delight 🧵

read along if you dare www.odni.gov/files/ODNI/d...

I asked some questions of the ODNI about Friday's release of emails and accusations of a treasonous conspiracy related to 2016-2017 intel community assessments of Russian election meddling. As I didn't get answers, I'll just discuss here what I raised in my questions. 🧵

Anyone with serious interest in Russia’s attempts to influence the US election in 2016 should read the exhaustive 2020 report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/p...

THREAD:: A few things about this screed.

1. Trump was not “framed” by the Dossier because the Dossier wasn’t used to open the Russia probe. Crossfire Hurricane was opened when Alex Downer from Australia told us that Popadopalous drunk-blabbed about Russia in a London Pub months earlier. 1/

Retconning 'Russiagate' article by me. Subhed: The CIA director encourages the rewriting of history

🧵In 2018 the Senate Intelligence Committee asked me to field a team and analyze a data set that social media platforms had turned over: several hundred gigs of data chronicling a multi-year effort to divide American society *and* interfere in an American election
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...

Something I've been thinking about with regard to the battle damage assessment issue with the Iranian nuclear sites. There is an underlying physical reality here. The US Intelligence Community doesn't know what it is, though it probably knows parts. In any event, however, 1/2

Crash (exploit) and burn: Securing the offensive cyber supply chain to counter China in cyberspace If the United States wishes to compete in cyberspace, it must compete against China to secure its offensive cyber supply chain.

🚨 NEW PAPER on the 0day Supply Chain 🚨:
I gathered open source data & interviewed Gov employees, VR and china researchers to figure out what the zero day marketplace looks like in the U.S. and how it compares to China.

key findings below ⬇️- 0/🧵 
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

Military cyber units acting like they contribute meaningful input to kinetic operations besides “intelligence collection with computer noise and some spooky ghost sounds” is a phenomenon you can find in the US as easily as you can find it in Russia. Everyone wants to demonstrate value on the big day

There is no “one and done” in any conflict.

The opponent always gets a vote, and unless we’ve prepped for all the things Iran may do we’re gonna have some surprises.

Useful because Russia got what it wanted?

Is anyone tracking Kyle Rittenhouse's location?

Did CrowdStrike do an update?

This Caps fan remembers Tikkanen should have had at least one more career playoff goal.

We put tariffs on an uninhabited island full of penguins but not Russia.

Very normal administration we have here.

I think this is a screen capture from Mike Waltz’s Signal app.

You'd think Musk and Space X would avoid yet again dumping propellants and metal into the Gulf of "America."

Missed opportunity…

OTD in 1992 the Transnistra War kicked off. "Pro Russian" forces were forced to have a ceasefire to stop NATO continuing its move eastward that hadn't started yet.

We've occupied a part of Moldova ever since. Your inaction was noted..

🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

Eggs are cheaper when the price is in Spanish.

Yet Mike Flynn's portrait still hangs on the wall.

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THE CHIEFS CAN STILL WIN IF MIKE PENCE HAS THE COURAGE

Hey @washingtonpost.com you say your new Kash Patel story has "not previously been reported."

Wrong, we at @motherjones.com scooped you and had this out earlier today.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Feel free to correct.

Russia supported sabotage spree in Germany to roil election campaign, report says A wave of car vandalism, initially blamed on climate activists, is now being linked to Moscow.

The cheapest way to win a war is to convince your enemy to fight each other: "German investigators believe that a wave of car vandalism across Germany, initially blamed on radical climate activists, is actually part of a Russian-orchestrated sabotage campaign" www.politico.eu/article/germ...