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@mtaibbi

Author of THE DIVIDE, GRIFTOPIA, THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING, and HATE INC.

Jersey City, NJ
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Joined May 2009
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  1. 3 hours ago

    I basically only covered one issue during the Obama years.

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    Covering one issue in 8 years is admirable, but Obama's failures and crimes went beyond one issue. I recall during the Bush years your reporting was quite extensive and vitriol in RS. While others slept, Greenwald and Scahill were carrying the torch of investigative reporting.
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  2. 3 hours ago

    It’s self-evident. A CIA officer who goes right back to work for the CIA after “blowing the whistle” is a very particular kind of whistleblower.

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    so you're calling the current whistleblowers "fake". That's a heck of a claim - and neither you nor Trump has anything to back it up, or you'd say so.
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  3. 4 hours ago

    I spent much of the Obama years writing about his administration’s failure to prosecute financial crime.

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    Exactly like your reporting in all of Obama's 8 year span.
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  4. 4 hours ago

    I’m 100% in favor of whistleblower protections, because I know and have worked with quite a few. Real whistleblowers expect to lose everything, and usually do, legal protection or no legal protection.

    Taibbi apparently opposes whistleblower protections. They can only be “Whistleblowers” is they are unprotected.
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  5. 6 hours ago

    The meaningful distinction with whistleblowers is whether they end up personally and professionally ruined (most of them), or not.

    Replying to @renofamous @mtaibbi
    My feeling is: They need to create independent bodies & fix protocol. And then it can be protocol-only.…
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  6. 7 hours ago

    I didn’t use the term.

    Replying to @travelamigo @mtaibbi
    That's not what I was doing. There is a difference between talking about government abuses and talking about the "deep state". I was surprised to hear that terminology from him and sought clarification.
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  7. 7 hours ago

    The stuff I’ve been writing about for two-plus years - from the use of informants to leaks of manufactured news stories to FISA abuse to efforts to partner with Internet platforms to control media - are not conspiracy theory.

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  8. 7 hours ago

    Brennan said Trump would be imminently indicted, and had committed treason, and Mueller would find high crimes and misdemeanors. Later said: “ I suspected there was more than there actually was.”

    Replying to @whiter069 @ggreenwald @mtaibbi
    All true, but does not mean he is wrong on Trump.
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  9. 7 hours ago

    Did you miss the Obama years?

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    But those things were right wing policies done under a Republican President
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  10. 7 hours ago

    They are fully bipartisan enterprises.

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    They're not fantasies, I think she's just saying they're not left-wing enterprises
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  11. 7 hours ago

    Right - so all those stories about mass surveillance, torture, indefinite detention, rendition, drone assassination, national security letters, etc. are right-wing fantasies?

    Replying to @BackSassBaby @ggreenwald @mtaibbi
    Whenever these crazy right-wingers associate the term to the left this is exactly what comes to mind. The & corrupted have always been the foundation of ideology of . …
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  12. Oct 5

    I’ve never written that Hillary stole the nomination from Bernie.

    2 points to keep in mind about : His narrative is stole nomination from and was illegitimate, hence she lost to Therefore Trump’s election had to be legitimate, hence Russia investigation was illegitimate
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  13. Oct 5

    Here’s the Mueller report on Page: “Investigators did not establish that Page conspired with the Russian government.”

    Mueller may or may not have found criminal conspiracy, he certainly found massive collusion & multiple instances of felony obstruction by Trump to cover it up. Carter Page was/is a Russian asset and nothing in the Steele Dossier has ever been shown to be false. Get real.
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  14. Oct 4

    Great new episode of Useful Idiots: and I talk with of Pussy Riot about prison, Putin, and Project 1937. Katie and I also sabotage our careers with off-narrative takes on impeachment.

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  15. Oct 4

    The decision was made in 2016, and he was approached (and refused) an offer to be taken out of Russia before Trump’s inauguration.

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    he wasn't rescued in 2017?
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  16. Oct 4

    What was bad was the misreporting of the reasons for Smolenkov’s exfiltration, and the timing of it. They tried to blame it on Trump, but it took place before Trump took office, thanks to their own incompetence

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    Rescued. They got him out. That was bad?
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  17. Oct 4

    Yes, and they make highly suspect, self-serving reports on a regular basis, among other things about stories in which they have direct and controversial roles, like the exfiltration of Oleg Smolenkov.

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    Intelligence officers go on TV and talk about things intelligence officers deal with on a regular basis. OMFG!
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  18. Oct 4

    Being anti-Brennan is being pro-Putin?

    Replying to @Moonshine1O1 @mtaibbi
    He has a statistically significant tendency to come down on the same side of issues as Putin, I’ve noticed
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  19. Oct 4

    John Brennan’s honor is the bridge too far for you? Okay.

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    This is the hill you wanna die on Matt? Couldn't be more disappointed in a writer I've been reading for nigh on 15 years.
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  20. Oct 4

    Spook = spy, intelligence officer

    Replying to @mtaibbi
    Help me out here, - why is she using the word "Spooks"? In the south it is a pejorative term but not for ghosts...
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