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Intelligence and national security for @CNN . Former @thehill , @defenseone . Likes = bookmarks. DM for secure contact info.

Washington, D.C.

Joined March 2014

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Katie Bo Lillis

4 years

SCOOP: The initial investigation by the D.C. National Guard into the two Guard helicopters that flew low over protesters on the night of June 1 found they weren't properly authorized to be there & were directed by a Lt. Col. who was driving home in his car.

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Helicopters Over DC Protesters Broke Regulations While Commander was Driving Home, DC Guard...

The D.C. National Guard and Pentagon IG are fighting over who to blame for the dangerous incident that symbolized Trump’s militarized response.

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Okay guys can we please stop making this a thing? Active duty service members are literally required to wear their dress uniforms when appearing on Capitol Hill in an official capacity.

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In uniform.

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Amash tells reporters that if Comey memo allegations are true, it's grounds for impeachment. Says he trusts Comey more than Trump.

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In an exchange reported by @RealMikeLillis , Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla) told @AOC she was "disgusting" for suggesting poverty/unemployment driving a spike in crime in NYC. They parted. "Yoho offered a parting thought to no one in particular." 'Fucking bitch.'"

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Ocasio-Cortez accosted by GOP lawmaker over remarks: ‘That kind of confrontation hasn’t ever...

Tensions flared on Capitol Hill this week when a Republican lawmaker challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on issues of crime and policing in an unusual — and decidedly personal — confr…

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JUST IN: Confirming Newsweek that the U.S. has issued a new warning to the Ukrainian government that the latest intelligence points to a full scale attack imminently, per Ukrainian and US officials. At particular risk, the warning said, is the northeastern city of Kharkiv.

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The US intelligence community assesses that it will take “years” for the Russian military to recover from the damage it has sustained in carrying out its war in Ukraine, director for national intelligence Avril Haines said today.

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"The violent riot in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021 was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process." -- Message to the Joint Force from Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley and the rest of the Joint Chiefs.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his military that he wants to have the capability to take control of Taiwan by force by 2027, per CIA Deputy Director David Cohen—but, he said, the IC does not currently believe that Beijing has made a decision about whether to proceed.

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UPDATE: Among the assistance Russia requested of China was prepackaged, nonperishable military food kits, known in the US as “meal, ready-to-eat,” or MREs, according to two sources familiar with the matter. w/ @NatashaBertrand

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Huge scoop from @TaraCopp . White House approves use of lethal force by troops at the border—and crowd control & temporary detention—something that could run afoul of the U.S. law that forbids the military from performing domestic law enforcement duties.

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White House approves use of force, some law enforcement roles for border troops

Experts cautioned that the additional authorities may run afoul of the Posse Comitatus Act

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Just in from the powerhouse team of @ZcohenCNN @evanperez @jamiegangel (and me): IC agencies have been working with the FBI since mid-May to examine some of the classified documents taken from Mar-a-Lago in order to determine their level of classification, sources say.

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Baghdadi is believed to have detonated his suicide vest, killing himself, @DefenseOne has learned.

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BREAKING: Mueller has charged President Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn with “willfully and knowingly” making “false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to the FBI about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador, special counsel's office announces.

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Whoa. INBOX, in rare public statement, FBI says it had limited opportunity to review the Nunes memo before the vote and "we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy."

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NEWS: The U.S. and its allies have new intelligence that suggests Russia could launch an attack on Ukraine even before the end of the Olympics, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Previous assessments had suggested movement was unlikely until after the Olympics.

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A senior administration official tells me that the Turks have violated the ceasefire “since its inception,” reported by U.S. troops “not just the SDF,” which has made a ISR request to record the alleged violations. That request is still pending, I’m told.

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Update: It's been almost eight hours. Donald Trump Jr. is still in the House Intelligence Committee's secure spaces.

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Corker says he just got off a classified phone call with Mattis and says he is now headed to a preciously-scheduled meeting with the president and will now discuss Syria. He says there does not appear to have been any interagency process to the withdrawal decision.

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BREAKING: The Senate Armed Services Committee was briefed this morning on an allegation of sexual assault against a top Air Force general nominated to become the military’s No. 2 officer, Gen. John Hyten. @marcusreports and I have the story, here:

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Sexual Assault Allegation Surfaces About Nominee for Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman

Cleared by Air Force investigators, Gen. Hyten may yet face questions during his Senate confirmation process.

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Woof. Rep. Moulton also asks Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations Owen West if he thinks Mattis was wrong to disagree with @realDonaldTrump about the withdrawal from Syria. West paused, then leans forward to the mic: "No sir."

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Grim assessment from DNI Haines: Putin's war in Ukraine is likely to become “more unpredictable and escalatory”—in part because “Putin faces a mismatch between his ambitions & Russia’s military capabilities," increasing likelihood of more drastic measures & ad hoc decisions.

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Truly astonishing moment: Ukrainian President Zelensky says that weapons will be issued to all citizens capable of defending the country. Clear indication that Ukraine is preparing for an escalated ground campaign by Russia—to include potential occupation.

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This document-by-document review has also allowed the agencies to determine whether any immediate efforts needed to be made to protect sources and methods as a result of the documents being held at former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence and resort, the sources said.

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JUST IN: Shanahan says he’s directed his chief of staff to look into the incident in Japan with the USS McCain. Shanahan says he was completely in the dark about it. He just gave an unequivocal defense of Sen. McCain and insisted he would never have supported that kind of order.

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Confirmed: Fired State IG was investigating Trump's controversial emergency declaration allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the objections of Congress. HFAC chairman Eliot Engel says Linick was "pushed out before this work could be completed." Calls timing "troubling."

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BREAKING: Pentagon 'Thinks' the Air Force Secretary Has Resigned

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The top Pentagon spox, Charlie Summers, is briefing the press minutes after reports hit that AF Secretary Heather Wilson has resigned. We’re not getting a lot here: “I think it’s true,” he says, adding that he just read the reports before he walked in. “Next question please.”

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The request underscores the basic logistical challenges that military analysts and officials say have stymied Russian progress in Ukraine — and raises questions about the fundamental readiness of the Russian military.

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What an unbelievably surreal headline.

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"Quick-thinking" staffer secured electoral votes before rioters stormed Capitol

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It just cannot be overstated how wild this is. Sydney Powell wanted a senior DOD official to launch a special operations raid to — rescue? capture? — Gina Haspel, who she believed was "hurt and taken into custody" according to an internet conspiracy theory.

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This is distinct from the so-called damage assessment ODNI has announced looking at potential harm. That kind of review is designed to offer a more wide-ranging analytical picture of both short and long-term risks to US national security *if* such information were to be exposed.

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This 1st-person account from my colleague @natsecwatson is genuinely disturbing & you should read it. On learning he was a journalist, a customs officer at Dulles asked him *four* times "You write propaganda, right?" & held his passport until he said yes.

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US Customs Officer Harasses Defense One Journalist at Dulles Airport

Repeating “You write propaganda, right?”, officer held passport until he received an affirmative answer.

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You can hear sailors shouting "what the f*ck!" when Modly says that Crozier was either "too naive or too stupid" to command the TR if he didn't think his memo was going to become public.

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This is sort of wow: UK Maj. Gen. Chris Ghika, deputy commander for strategy and information for the US-led counter-ISIS mission, tells Pentagon reporters "We don’t see any increased threat from [Iranian-backed militias] at this stage."

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One of the sources suggested that food might be a request that China would be willing to meet, because it stops short of lethal assistance that would be seen as deeply provocative by the west.

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Now, the investigation's findings seem to be trapped in a bureaucratic morass. The findings—including a recommendation that the Lt. Col. be reprimanded—went to Army HQ. The Army IG has since sent at least one updated version to the DOD IG, which is conducting its own review.

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New from me: Russia's military is riven with dissent over how best to counter Ukraine's battlefield advances this month, according to multiple sources familiar with US intelligence— and Putin is himself giving directions directly to generals in the field.

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My parents got a dog. I’m serious, have you ever seen a better advertisement for #AdoptDontShop in your life? He’s so happy!!

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Some personal news, as they say. Very excited to join CNN’s awesome natsec team to cover intelligence and national security. Send me your secrets!

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We’re excited to welcome Katie Bo Williams, who joins @CNN as a reporter today. She will cover intelligence and national security, focusing on related agencies and Congressional committees.

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Less than 30km across the border from Kharkiv in Russia, there has been a big build-up of Russian armor & support vehicles. Ukraine says no plans to evacuate Kharkiv but the Ukrainian pres has called for a state of emergency across the country starting at midnight.

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Exclusive: I spoke today to MG William Walker, the commander of the DC Guard and all 25K Guardsmen currently in DC to safeguard the inauguration of President-elect Biden. All 25K went through an additional background check to screen for extremism, he said.

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Troops at Inauguration Pre-Screened for Extremism, Says DC Guard Commander

“We will use the minimum force required to protect ourselves,” said Maj. Gen. William Walker, in an exclusive interview.

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Can confirm that Baghdadi was the target of a special operations raid in Syria today. Lots of chatter that the raid “got him”, but confirmation is still pending.

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Something very big has just happened!

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Joint Chiefs con't: "On January 20, 2021, in accordance with the Constitution, confirmed by the states and the courts, and certified by Congress, President-elect Biden will be inaugurated and will become our 46th Commander in Chief."

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BREAKING: Gen. McKenzie, the top US commander in the Middle East, tells reporters that a US drone strike in Kabul on 29 Aug, killed no ISIS fighters but 10 civilians, including seven children. "It was a mistake," McKenzie says.

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Some personal news, as they say: I got married last month and have made the decision to take my husband’s name. You can still reach me at all the same emails & numbers you already have—but you will start seeing my work, proudly and happily, under the byline “Katie Bo Lillis.”

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JUST IN: The Defense Department has agreed to provide “up to 25,000 service members to support the Presidential Inauguration National Special Security Event federal law enforcement mission and security preparations.” This is an increase from the previously-approved level of 20K.

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“He has not made the decision to do that, but he has asked his military to put him in a position where if that's what he wanted to do, he would be able to. It's still the assessment of the IC as a whole that Xi's interest in Taiwan is to get control through nonmilitary means.”

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Worth noting: A senior Ukrainian official points out to CNN the US has issued similar warnings before for assaults that did not materialize.

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This is a tremendous piece of work.

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Just in: Zelensky announces on his Facebook that Ukraine has recaptured Putin's main man in Ukraine, the former Ukrainian parliament member Victor Medvedchuk, who escaped house arrest during the early days of the Russian invasion.

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Sources tell @NatashaBertrand and myself that the “destabilizing foreign military capability” referenced in the HPSCI Dear Colleague and referred to here is Russian. 🇷🇺

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Statement from Chairman @RepMikeTurner :

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Satellite images from the past two days show new road construction & a bridge being built across a key river in Belarus less than 4mi from the border. Western intel tracking amid Russian support infrastructure buildup, sources tell @NatashaBertrand & me:

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US officials are watching new bridge construction in key area in Belarus

Satellite images taken over the past two days show new road construction and a tactical bridge being built across a key river in Belarus less than four miles from the Ukrainian border, amid what...

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I can confirm that there were scheduled meetings canceled as of today. On what grounds or until when, it’s not clear.

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SCOOP w @mikeallen : Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios.

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Breaking: The White House announces that the U.S. has killed the current leader of ISIS, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. "All Americans have returned safely from the operation," Biden says in a statement. He will deliver remarks later this morning.

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👀 via @karoun

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Corker just returned from the White House, which canceled his meeting w/ Trump: "I don’t know that there’s any way to reverse it. I understand from talking to people who are close to it that he’s made his mind up," he says of Syria decision. "It’s obviously a political decision."

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BREAKING: The DOJ has filed a notice to appeal Judge Cannon's ruling ordering the appointment of a special master.

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Quigley, one of the funnier members of HPSCI, tells us there’s “no hope” of getting all the answers they want (from Hope Hicks). He notes it’s the best pun he can come up with at the moment.

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2018: An anonymous congressman I’ve never seen before just wandered out into the Speaker’s Lobby, looked at @jeremyherb and me, and said: “How do you quit?”

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In a particularly frank moment during an exit interview, departing Syria envoy Jim Jeffrey acknowledged to me that when it came to troop levels there, “We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there."

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Outgoing Syria Envoy Admits Hiding US Troop Numbers; Praises Trump’s Mideast Record

‘We were always playing shell games,’ says Amb. Jim Jeffrey, who also gives advice to President-elect Biden.

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This is absolutely a big part of the equation in Baghdad. As one senior Iraqi official put it to me last night: "Remember [Soleimani] was the first to come help us fight ISIS. Without him, Baghdad and Erbil might have fallen."

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*Iraq's prime minister* says the U.S. assassinated "symbols of the victory against Daesh" and violated rules for U.S. forces' presence in Iraq. Has called for an emergency meeting to respond.

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A distinction: Comey did not say 'reopening investigation.' That language came from House Oversight Chair @jasoninthehouse .

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Further commentary from sailors in Modly recording:

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@AaronMehta The heckling on this is insane. "He was trying to help us!" around 3 minutes in. "No they weren't" at around 7 minutes in after Modly said Crozier's letter had left some sailors demoralized.

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Haines: “And during this period, we anticipate that they're going to be more reliant on asymmetric tools that they have—tools such as cyberattacks, their efforts to try to control energy, even nuclear weapons—in order to try to manage and project power and influence globally."

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FBI Director Comey is in the Senate SCIF with Grassley and Feinstein. Schumer and Warner have also gone down.

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This is very carefully written but definition of whoa if true. Also impossible not to see in context w/ Nunes today

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All DOD clearance holders are now under “continuous vetting” as part of a reform to the personnel security process that determines who should have access to classified information and secure facilities, the DCSA director said Tuesday.

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All DOD security clearance holders now under continuous vetting

All Defense Department clearance holders are now under “continuous vetting” as part of a reform to the personnel security process that determines who should have access to classified information and...

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“The battlespace” here is American cities.

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DOD's Esper during WH call with governors: "I think the sooner that you mass and dominate the battlespace, the quicker this dissipates and we can get back to the right normal."

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Shanahan on USS McCain: “I never authorized... any action around the movement or activity regarding that ship. Furthermore, I would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot like Sen. McCain. I would never disrespect the young men and women that crew that ship.“

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CBP officer, holding Ben’s passport: What do you do? Ben: Journalism. Officer: So you write propaganda, right? Ben: No Officer: You’re a journalist? Ben: Yes Officer: You write propaganda, right? Ben: No. I'm in journalism. Officer: You write propaganda, right? AND IT GOES ON.

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This 1st-person account from my colleague @natsecwatson is genuinely disturbing & you should read it. On learning he was a journalist, a customs officer at Dulles asked him *four* times "You write propaganda, right?" & held his passport until he said yes.

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Haines said that Russia is beginning to turn its focus to Donetsk but will struggle to overtake it. But Putin likely believes time is on Russia’s side because he believes the west will eventually tire of supporting Ukraine. "None of this bodes well for a peaceful resolution."

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INBOX: FBI director Chris Wray says he is doubling the number of FBI staff, who will work in two shifts from 8 AM to midnight, to handle Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte's records request related to his investigation into alleged bias at the DOJ.

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. @RepAdamSchiff arrives to condemn decision to cancel open hearing next week.

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Look I wasn’t going to get involved in this @AOC hair scandal. I really wasn’t. Bc I’m a defense reporter and, why? But I cannot NOT remark that the story seems distressed that AOC, a “socialist,” got a $300 haircut instead of...a government-subsidized one?

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This exchange between Devin Nunes and Hugh Hewitt, from today, is a fascinating window. Nunes says he has grappled with how—or if—it would be possible to get Chief Justice Roberts to "testify" before Congress. (FISC judges are appointed by the Chief Justice.)

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New: US has been unable to determine a theater-wide Russian commander responsible for leading its war in Ukraine, per sources familiar—something they say is likely a key contributor to the apparent clumsiness and disorganization of the Russian assault.

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Who is Russia's top field commander in Ukraine? The US isn't sure.

The US has been unable to determine if Russia has designated a military commander responsible for leading the country's war in Ukraine, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter —...

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Wow. State did not respond to *five requests* for comment for this story.

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Robbie Gramer

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SCOOP: Trump's South Africa ambassador, a successful handbag designer, forced out her top career diplomat at the embassy as she tried to elevate her son to a senior embassy post, officials tell me. Part of a trend of Trump envoys pushing out their #2 's

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The Biden administration on Thursday confirmed that a Russian agent who received internal polling data from the Trump campaign in 2016 passed it along to Russia's intelligence services. w/ @MarshallCohen and @jeremyherb

Biden administration confirms Russian agent shared 2016 Trump polling data as part of election...

The Biden administration on Thursday revealed new details about Russia’s extensive interference in the 2016 and 2020 US elections, including disclosing for the first time that a Russian agent who...

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Both the DIA director, LTG Scott Berrier, and the deputy director of CIA, David Cohen, agree that the projected timeline for al Qaeda to reconstitute in Afghanistan to have the capability to threaten the US homeland is one to two years — and that's "conservative, Berrier says.

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Interestingly: CoS John Kelly signed the order.

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SCOOP: Political appointees at the Pentagon are reviewing the Pentagon's support to the CIA—including the use of CT operators detailed to the Special Activities Center, the division involved in some of the biggest CT missions of the last two decades.

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Trump Officials Reviewing DOD Support To CIA

Some officials familiar with the review see it as an effort to cut vital DOD support to the agency.

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@MarcusReports The Pentagon has investigated and cleared Hyten. They consider it “case closed.” But senators are still looking into the matter. “There is a report I need to read before I say more,” said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.

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Sen. Feinstein has just released the 300+ page transcript of the Judiciary Committee's interview of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, apparently without consulting chair Grassley. House Intel Committee has also not seen this. Transcript:

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Just in: Commercial fishermen off the coast of Alaska have found what officials are concerned could be another spy balloon and are bringing it to shore with them, three sources familiar with the matter told me & @evanperez . The FBI is meeting them there.

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This appears to be new: Flynn and Flynn Jr. met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in his private residence in D.C. in late 2015, a meeting that Flynn Jr. later described to the Russian embassy as "very productive." The meeting was apparently at Flynn's request.

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SCOOP: @LindseyGrahamSC tells me that he called Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday—at the request of @realDonaldTrump —to urge Turkey not to *activate* the S-400 in exchange for no sanctions and a possible free trade deal with the U.S.

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Graham: I Told Turkey They Can Avoid Sanctions If They Don’t Activate Russian Radar

Sen. Lindsay Graham says President Trump asked him to make the call.

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JUST IN: Acting SecDef Shanahan says that the 900 troops being sent to the Mideast in response to what the administration calls an elevated Iran threat are going to Qatar and Saudi Arabia. (This is interesting since the place officials say American troops were at risk was Iraq.)

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Based on the text of the EO and several conversations, Trump isn’t actually using the Defense Production Act to boost medical supply production yet—he’s just putting the tools in place to do so “just in case we need it,” as he said during the presser today.

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@KatieBoWill Thanks for staying on top of this. There's an obvious danger that this is about scoring a we-did-something point, with no one really checking under the hood.

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A grim moment for Kyiv: Sources familiar with the intelligence tell @jimsciutto and me that the initial US assessment from before the invasion—which anticipated that the Ukrainian capital would be overrun within one to four days of a Russian attack—remains unchanged.

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2) Russia could achieve a breakthrough and refocus on Kyiv or Odessa. 3) Ukraine could stabilize the front line and begin to make smaller gains, likely in Kherson or elsewhere in southern Ukraine. /end

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Meanwhile:

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“The consensus is that the war in Ukraine will go on for an extended period of time,” Haines said said. Right now, Haines said the intelligence community sees three likely scenarios that could come into focus in the coming weeks and months:

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This is nuts. The Danish intelligence has accused Russia of forging a 2019 letter to a U.S. senator—Tom Cotton—purporting to be from Greenland's foreign minister and claiming that an independence referendum was forthcoming.

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The fake letter was addressed to Senator Tom Cotton, who claims to have given Trump the idea to buy Greenland. It says Greenland requires "a 30% financing increase" to hold an independence referendum 🤑

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Okay dudes I gotta say it: Hard not to notice that the two female candidates asked for forgiveness for "getting heated" and "being blunt." The men offered to give people their books. Just leaving that here.

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One thing a source points out to me is how tough it’s going to be to clear the Capitol complex: This is a huge, interconnected, labyrinthine set of buildings with *a lot* of places to hide. It’s going to be a complex and painstaking operation. It almost certainly won’t be quick.

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CNN has witnessed, through a livestream video, troops atop a column of military vehicles entering Ukraine from a border crossing with Belarus.

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Three sources familiar with the new intelligence tell CNN that Kyiv is among the targets identified in Russian planning.

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Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) emerges from Hope Hicks interview saying they’re a long ways from being done. Makes a quip about popping some No Doze. He says she’s not answering questions related to her time in the administration. He says they have not gotten to transition Qs yet.

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The rockets that struck U.S. forces at a base in Erbil on Monday night destroyed this contractor living facility, killing one—U.S.-employed but not a citizen—and wounding four others, some American. You can see the mangle of bunks inside. Contractors here are shook up and sad.

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Trump reels off a litany of shootings in Chicago. "No mother should ever have to cradle her dead child in her arms just because politicians refuse to do what is necessary to secure their neighborhood and to secure their city."

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Dem lawmaker just described the Strzok interview—still ongoing, it started at 10 AM—as “Kafka-esque” and “Orwellian.”

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