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Dustin Volz
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Dustin Volz
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@nytimes Washington correspondent reporting on hackers and spies. Priors w/ @WSJ, @Reuters and @nationaljournal.
I am just stunned there are some saying we need to just move on from Wednesday's events when all the documented evidence shows there were determined people—some of them carrying nooses—potentially minutes away from carrying out public executions of our elected representatives.- NEW: @ACLU now says it has received 290,000 online donations totaling $19.4 million since Saturday morning. Average per year is $3-4 million
- Wow. Republican Sen. Richard Burr: "The President bears responsibility for today’s events by promoting the unfounded conspiracy theories that have led to this point."
- Wow. Uber secretly tracked users after they deleted app. Tim Cook found out, threatened Kalanick w/ App Store deletion until Uber stood down
- Graham asks Horowitz if Comey is vindicated by his findings. Horowitz: "The findings here don’t vindicate anybody who touched this FISA."
- Reuters photographer who was on the scene Wednesday said he heard at least three different rioters say they wanted to find and execute Vice President Pence by hanging.I heard at least 3 different rioters at the Capitol say that they hoped to find Vice President Mike Pence and execute him by hanging him from a Capitol Hill tree as a traitor. It was a common line being repeated. Many more were just talking about how the VP should be executed.
- Marchers have left thousands of protest signs on fences outside the White House on Trump's first full day in office.
- Trump told Mueller in written answers that he recalled no conversations with Stone about WikiLeaks. SSCI: "The Committee assesses that Trump did, in fact, speak with Stone about WikiLeaks and with members of his Campaign about Stone’s access to WikiLeaks on multiple occasions."
- Can anyone explain why these domestic extremists who broke into the U.S. Capitol and forced lawmakers to cower in fear in secure locations are allowed to waltz out of the building like they just finished a jovial guided tour?
- New: Sen. Mark Warner says he raised concerns with FBI leadership ahead of Wednesday's riots that it could turn ugly and was repeatedly reassured the situation was under control. “They were flat wrong. Yesterday was an embarrassment to their response."
- Trump national security aides put his name in their briefing docs as much as possible so he will keep reading them reuters.com/article/us-usa…
- Former senior FBI official tells me Trump's reported short list of Comey replacements is "catastrophic"
- Seven senators, all of whom sit on Senate Intelligence, ask Obama to declassify more info about Russian interference in the U.S. election
