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    Jun 20

    "...the only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted, when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary to keep the waters pure..." - Thomas Jefferson, 1823

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  2. 23 seconds ago

    Talking with on in next hour.

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  3. 3 minutes ago

    Important. Major airbase in Erbil, short drive from Syria border. Major bases in Kuwait, elsewhere.

    While U.S. is pulling U.S. troops and diplomats from Syria, U.S. officials say 5,000 U.S. troops will remain in Iraq
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    9 minutes ago

    A Department of State spokesperson on approval of possible Patriot missile system sale to Turkey: “This notification provides a NATO-interoperable alternative to the S-400: nothing more, nothing less. It has no connection to other policy matters"

    . authorizes a proposed Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to for Patriot Missile System & Related Support and Equipment worth $3.5 billion …
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  5. 15 minutes ago

    United States added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists for first time
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  6. 18 minutes ago

    Now there’s a headline.

    NEW: Trump undermines his entire national security team on Syria
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  7. 2 hours ago

    The one that Turkey’s dictator has sent into a spiral? That relationship?

    Other side of the coin: I’m getting some calls from formers arguing that there are some potential benefits to withdrawal, including (so the argument goes) rehabilitating the U.S.-Turkey relationship.
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    2 hours ago

    UPDATE: Mattis has not yet signed the official orders that would trigger the actual withdrawal, a US official says, though they have been drafted. Per a senior Turkish official, Trump told Erdogan during the Friday phone call that he was planning to pull troops out...

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  9. 2 hours ago

    Yeah.

    Replying to @DefenseBaron @kathrynw5 @ChiefPentSpox
    LOL I'm old enough to remember 2016 when Trump campaigned on not announcing what he was going to be doing strategically with our troops as it tips off the enemy.
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    2 hours ago

    Sen. Rubio: "The decision to withdraw an American presence in Syria is a colossal, in my mind, mistake -- a grave error that's going to have significant repercussions in the years and months to come."

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  11. 2 hours ago

    “If the ISIS fight is over, no one has told ISIS.” - , reporting off trip to NE last week.

    ISIS Is Not Defeated and Pulling US Troops From Syria Would Jeopardize Everything |
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  12. 2 hours ago

    BREAKING: Pentagon effectively walks back Trump assertion ISIS is defeated and repeats existing DOD views on ISIS in Syria. Statement from only says troop numbers beginning to come home. Doesn’t say full pull out or timeline.

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  13. 2 hours ago

    “When Vice President Mike Pence arrived and was asked if the president had ordered troops to pull out of Syria, he gave no response.” - pool report from Pentagon this morn

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    7 hours ago

    Inhofe is 84. He's old enough to remember Pearl Harbor. He was 28 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's just nuts.

    Incoming SASC chair Sen. Inhofe says “we live in the most dangerous world of my lifetime.” His HASC counterpart Rep. Smith calls that “simple paranoia," reports |
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    4 hours ago

    Trump ally Lindsey Graham calls a withdrawal from Syria “an Obama-like mistake,” arguing that it will "be seen by Iran and other bad actors as a sign of American weakness in the efforts to contain Iranian expansion."

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    3 hours ago

    Meanwhile, in the last 2 weeks on : McGurk- "Nobody is declaring a mission accomplished" DOD- "The campaign against ISIS is not over" Chairman Dunford- "We still have a long way to go"

    We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.
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  17. 2 hours ago

    Rubio

    Marco Rubio railed on the president’s decision to pull out of Syria, saying whoever advised him has done a “great disservice” to the country. He said to us that Trump has put the US at risk by his decision - and it will make the world view America as an unreliable partner.
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    3 hours ago

    This is simply not true.

    We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.
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  19. 2 hours ago

    “Chaos” (also Mattis’s actual nickname.)

    Lindsey Graham on withdrawal situation just now in Senate subway: ‘This is chaos’
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    4 hours ago

    Dunford literally this month:

    2:04
    Given news of a US withdrawal from Syria, worth pointing out comments made by JCS Chairman Dunford just earlier this month: ISIS largely cleared but there are still thousands of fighters & only around 8k local forces…
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    3 hours ago

    *ALL*?

    MORE: All U.S. State Department personnel are being evacuated from Syria within 24 hours - official
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