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What a dumbass. Makes me wonder what kind of information one could acquire with high level impersonation.
It would cost me around $800 to pay one of my associates for a verified badge on Twitter and an additional few hundred to change the username to something of my choosing without losing the verified badge, provided the name isn't taken already. Then it would simply be a matter of brushing up the account's tweet history.
It really wouldn't be that hard to take impersonating to a new level if you know the right people and have at least $1000 in excess funds. The Russians are missing out on a goldmine.

Edit: Here's an example of someone I know selling a verified twitter account for $800 in Bitcoin. The current offer appears to be $500.
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The Atlantic alleges that the Ethics Committee investigation into Devin Nunes did not have access to the classified information at the heart of the ethics complaint.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/devin-nunes-controversy/551792/?utm_source=twb
The Circumscribed Ethics Investigation Into Devin Nunes
The House Intelligence Committee chair claimed he’d been completely cleared, but the panel probing his conduct never gained access to the intelligence he was accused of divulging.
Early last April, the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into whether the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, broke rules governing the public disclosure of classified information when he told reporters that he had obtained details about “American intelligence monitoring foreign officials” who may have “incidentally picked up communications of Trump transition team members.”

Eight months later, after seeking an analysis of Nunes’s statements by classification experts in the intelligence community, the Ethics Committee closed the case. Nunes thanked the committee for “completely clearing” him, and said it had found he “committed no violation.”

But the committee was never able to obtain or review the classified information at the heart of the inquiry, according to three congressional sources briefed on the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. The panel’s inability to determine for itself what may or may not have been classified—and what Nunes had actually been shown—likely contributed to its decision to close the investigation, according to one source.

Those restrictions cast doubt on whether the committee was able to authoritatively compare Nunes’s statements to the press with what he had read in the classified intelligence reports. That, in turn, calls into question the thoroughness of the committee’s investigation, and the accuracy of Nunes’s claims of vindication. A spokesman for the Ethics Committee declined to comment. A spokesman for Nunes did not immediately respond.

Nunes said he would step aside from his committee’s investigation into Russia’s election interference until the Ethics Committee completed its inquiry, which marked the climax of a series of bizarre events that began with Nunes’s late-night excursion to the White House last March.

Nunes spoke to reporters at least twice about the classified information he’d been shown by a source he characterized as a whistleblower. (The New York Times andThe Washington Post later reported that three White House officials had helped Nunes gain access to the documents.)

In separate press conferences both before and after he briefed Trump on the material, Nunes offered details about when the collection of intelligence allegedly took place—“it appears most of this occurred, from what I’ve seen, in November, December, and January”—and on whom it focused: “There was clearly significant information about President Trump and his team and there were additional names that were unmasked,” the California congressman said at the time.

Two left-leaning watchdog groups, Democracy 21 and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, quickly filed complaints with the Office of Congressional Ethics and pushed for an investigation into whether Nunes’s press conferences violated House ethics rules governing the disclosure of classified information.

The Ethics Committee declared its investigation closed in December. “The Committee does not determine whether information is or is not classified,” the panel’s Republican chairwoman and Democratic ranking member said in a joint statement on December 7. “In the course of this investigation, the Committee sought the analysis of Representative Nunes’s statements by classification experts in the intelligence community. Based solely on the conclusion of these classification experts that the information that Representative Nunes disclosed was not classified, the Committee will take no further action and considers this matter closed.”

Nunes thanked the committee “for completely clearing me today of the cloud that was created by this investigation, and for determining that I committed no violation of anything—no violation of House rules, law, regulations, or any other standards of conduct.” He blasted the investigation, after it was closed, as the result of “obviously frivolous” accusations “rooted in politically motivated complaints filed against me by left-wing activist groups.”

Now, Nunes has again come under scrutiny over his role in crafting a classified memo that has been described as a summary of surveillance abuses carried out by Obama administration holdovers at the Justice Department. Nunes has declined to share his findings with either his Senate counterpart, Richard Burr, or the Department of Justice.

The assistant attorney general for the Office of Legislative Affairs, Stephen Boyd, urged Nunes not to release the memo in a letter last week. He noted that Nunes had not seen the underlying intelligence that would allow him to judge whether or not the department had acted inappropriately in requesting and obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants, and said the memo’s disclosure could carry significant national-security risks.

The New York Times reported on Monday that the memo focuses at least in part on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s decision to approve a FISA application to monitor Carter Page, an early foreign-policy adviser to Trump’s campaign, which would have required a demonstration of probable cause to believe Page was acting as a Russian agent. Despite Boyd’s letter, the White House indicated that it would decide whether to support or oppose the memo’s release itself. “The Department of Justice doesn’t have a role in this process,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah told CNN on Monday morning. A Justice Department spokeswoman, Sarah Isgur Flores, declined to comment.

Boyd indicated in his letter to Nunes that the department had established terms with House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office for the DOJ’s release of thousands of pages of classified material that Nunes had requested last year. Nunes’s desire to declassify his memo and release it publicly could violate those terms, Boyd said.

But a Ryan spokesman, Doug Andres, disputed that claim last week. “As previously reported, the speaker’s only message to the department was that it needed to comply with oversight requests and there were no terms set for its compliance,” he told me.

Flores said Ryan’s office “was involved in a number of high-level negotiations regarding” Nunes’s subpoena, the production of the material, “and to what extent the production needed to be completed to satisfy the House’s oversight interest.”
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Well damb, republicans are going in. Bob Corker in particular really hammered the administration for declining to impose the sanctions on deadline day. I would've expected a disturbed frown but he took it a step further:
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Mnuchin he hopes the administration issues new sanctions soon, and said in a statement that "it is clear the administration is working in good faith, and I am committed to applying pressure, as needed, to ensure further implementation.”
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/3...sanctions-on-russia-after-outrage-over-report
Mnuchin promises more sanctions on Russia after outrage over report
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday the Trump administration will impose financial sanctions on dozens of wealthy Russians despite the president declining a congressional deadline to do so.

Mnuchin took heat from Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee over the administration's decision to not impose sanctions by a Monday deadline.

"This should in no way be interpreted as we’re not putting sanctions on anyone in that report,” Mnuchin said at a hearing.

He added that the report issued Monday on suspected financiers of Russian government political efforts is not a substitute for financial restrictions Congress mandated in a bill passed last year.




Trump announced Monday night that the current regiment of financial sanctions on Russia was doing enough to deter the country’s unstabilizing political and military actions, declining to add others.

Democrats excoriated Trump, whose campaign is the subject of a special counsel investigation over possible collusion with Russia, for declining to follow Congress’ directive. Some Republicans also expressed concerns about the lack of new sanctions.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) pressed Mnuchin on the lack of additional sanctions, asking him whether he agreed with the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Mnuchin, who served as Trump’s campaign finance chairman, said he wouldn’t dispute the findings.

Mnuchin also shared a heated exchange with Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) over whether the list would actually lead to sanctions. Mnuchin claimed the lack of sanctions on the listed Russians was not a delay as Schatz insisted it was.

"There will be sanctions that come out of this report," Mnuchin said, saying they could be issued within two or three months.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Mnuchin he hopes the administration issues new sanctions soon, and said in a statement that "it is clear the administration is working in good faith, and I am committed to applying pressure, as needed, to ensure further implementation.”

And Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told Mnuchin he feared the consequences of not cracking down harder on Putin, insisting the U.S. should "hit him [with sanctions] until he's coughing up bones."

“It’s not getting any better, Mr. Secretary," Kennedy said. “I really think we’re sending the wrong message with this critical challenge.”

The 2017 legislation allows Trump to postpone imposing sanctions on people or entities if he determines they are largely scaling back their transactions with Russia's defense or intelligence sectors, as long as he notifies the appropriate congressional committees at least every 180 days that the administration is seeing such progress.

The Treasury Department released a list of Russian business and political figures as part of the legislation meant to punish Moscow for election meddling, including senior members of the Kremlin.

The list includes 114 senior political figures with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian oligarchs with a net worth of or more than $1 billion. Even so, the administration clarified the report was not meant to be a "sanctions list."

The oligarch list was widely criticized and even mocked by senators for its overlap with the Forbes list of wealthiest Russian businessmen. A Treasury Department spokesman told Buzzfeed that the Forbes ranking was one of several public sources of information used by the department.

The administration also issued a classified report on Russian sanctions to Congress.
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http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/371397-ryan-urges-lawmakers-dont-overplay-memo
Ryan urges lawmakers: Don't overplay memo
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday implored Republicans not to use a GOP-crafted memo alleging “shocking” surveillance abuses at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to undermine special counsel Bob Mueller in remarks made less than 24 hours after the House Intelligence Committee voted to make the document public.

Ryan during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday urged Republicans not to overstate the facts in the memo and not to tie its conclusions to Mueller’s investigation, according to a person in the room.

“First, there are legitimate questions about whether an American's civil liberties were violated by the FISA process,” he told reporters after the meeting. “This is a completely separate matter from Bob Mueller's investigation and his investigation should be allowed to take its course.”

The classified memo was drafted by staff for Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and is believed to contain allegations that federal investigators did not adequately explain to a clandestine spy court that some of the information included in a surveillance warrant application for Trump adviser Carter Page came from opposition research paid for by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Some GOP members who have seen the memo have hinted heavily that it contains the key to unraveling the entire investigation into whether President Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia to swing the 2016 election—a probe Trump has repeatedly derided as a “witch hunt.”

Conservatives have called the memo’s revelations a threat to democracy and “bigger than Watergate.”

Since the classified memo was made available to the entire House last week, Democrats have blasted the document as a transparent effort by Republicans to discredit Mueller’s investigation and protect the president. They have described it as a set of misleading and unsubstantiated allegations that Republicans can’t back up without exposing highly classified information.

But there has been a mounting crescendo from the right to reveal the document. Ryan’s remarks come as their demands are poised to become reality—and questions have begun to emerge about whether the document will live up to the hype.

"To say that it’s so, ‘earth-shattering,’ as some of my colleagues have been saying—I believe, based on a number of things that I’ve seen, that there were a number of things that were done inappropriately,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told The Hill on Sunday when asked if Republicans may have overplayed the memo's significance.

Meadows previously called the document “shocking,” saying “I thought it could never happen in a country that loves freedom and democracy like this country.”

Some Senate Republicans have also urged caution on the memo.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) over the weekend told ABC’s "This Week" that the document should not be released. “I want somebody outside of the Republican-led Congress to look at these allegations," he said.

The fight over whether or not to release the document comes amidst an inferno of tension between the GOP and the DOJ as Mueller moves closer to interviewing the president.

On Monday, longtime GOP target Andrew McCabe abruptly stepped down from his position as deputy director at the FBI, after months of withering criticism from Trump and other Republicans.

Republican lawmakers from four separate committees for weeks have raised alarm bells about text messages between two FBI agents assigned to the investigation into Russia and Trump’s campaign, claiming that they show law enforcement bias against the president.

And a vocal set of conservatives has blasted Mueller’s investigation as hopeless biased and called for his dismissal.

“My concern is that the bias that any person could bring to any job actually seem to manifest in this case in a conspiracy to undermine the president of the United States,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told CNN on Monday.

“I think that there’s really a mosaic of evidence here, not one particular donation or one particular party affiliation that illuminates tremendous bias that should stop this probe from going forward.”

Gaetz is urging Trump to release the memo during the State of the Union address on Tuesday night.

The decision to release the document now rests with Trump, who has five days to stop the publication if it so chooses. But the White House has signaled an interest in making the document public and Trump is widely expected to release it.
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I'm sure that would play really well on live national and international tv during State of the Union. Wonderful idea, give this man a job at a PR firm.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-acti...tol-police-to-arrest-dreamers-at-state-of-the
GOP lawmaker asks Capitol Police to arrest 'Dreamers' at State of the Union

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/371429-ryan-calls-for-a-cleanse-of-the-fbi
Ryan calls for a 'cleanse' of the FBI
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday threw his support behind releasing a controversial memo that purports to detail FBI surveillance activity, saying it will “cleanse” the organization, Fox News reported.

“Let it all out, get it all out there. Cleanse the organization,” Ryan said, according to Fox.

“I think we should disclose all this stuff. It’s the best disinfectant. Accountability, transparency -- for the sake of the reputation of our institutions,” he added.



Ryan reportedly made the remarks at a largely off-the-record session with anchors and reporters ahead of President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Ryan went on the record to address the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo.

Still, the Speaker urged Republican lawmakers during a Tuesday morning meeting not to overstate the facts in the memo, and not to use the document's contents to try to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The GOP-crafted classified memo is believed to contain allegations that federal investigators abused a surveillance program to monitor the Trump campaign. Several conservative lawmakers have claimed the memo will illustrate political bias within the FBI.

The House Intelligence Committee voted Monday night along party lines to release the memo, despite concerns from Justice Department officials that doing so could endanger intelligence sources.

Ryan on Tuesday morning also defended Rod Rosenstein, saying he the deputy attorney general doing “fine job” and should not be fired.

“Rod Rosenstein was hired after this last election. I think the people at the FBI, at the [Justice Department] need to clean their own house if there are problems in their own house,” he said.
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Also just in:
http://thehill.com/policy/national-...ntel-prepares-to-release-memo-vote-transcript
House Intel prepares to release memo vote transcript
The House Intelligence Committee is preparing to release the transcript of its closed-door vote to release a Republican memo alleging “shocking” surveillance abuses at the Department of Justice, according to multiple GOP members.

The release of a Democratic-drafted memo designed to rebut the Republican memo was voted down during the same meeting, and ranking member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has been pushing for the release of the transcript.

"As soon as the transcript lady gets it done, it'll be available post haste," Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) said Tuesday.

A spokesperson for committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), whose staff drafted the memo, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Democrats are outraged that Republicans are only permitting the Democratic memo to be viewed by House members — rather than public — and lawmakers have described the hour-long gathering as contentious.
Stone-faced committee Democrats appeared in a phalanx after the vote, decrying what Schiff described as the crossing of “a deeply regrettable line in this committee, where for the first time in the ten years I’ve been on the committee, there was a vote to politicize the declassification process of intelligence.”

The committee held several votes during the session, according to Schiff, including a motion that the Department of Justice brief the full House on both memos and a motion that the Democratic and Republican memos be released publicly together. Both motions, put forward by Schiff, failed.

Republicans expressed concerns that the Democratic memo exposed sensitive intelligence sources and methods and should be vetted by the House first, as the Republican memo was.

The precise contents of both memos remain unknown. The Nunes memo is believed to contain allegations that the FBI did not adequately explain to a clandestine court that some of the information it used in a surveillance warrant application for Trump adviser Carter Page came from opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign, now known as the “Steele dossier.”

Democrats have slammed it as a collection of misleading talking points they are unable to correct without exposing the highly classified information underpinning the document.

"It'll be interesting reading," Conaway said of the transcript.
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