Eric Geller
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Freelance cybersecurity reporter covering all things digital security. I also co-host @hothtakes . | Send me tips:
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NEW: I talked to U.S. cyber ambassador Nate Fick about how his team at
@StateCDP
is planning to spend the $50m that Congress recently gave it for a new cyber foreign aid fund.
It's Fick's first big test, with plenty of priorities competing for funds.
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Did I miss AG Barr's forceful condemnation of the right-wing terrorist plot to kidnap Michigan's Democratic governor?
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Security services that refuse to disclose their full affiliation are not a typical feature of liberal democracies.
Asked who they’re with, these guys say only that they’re with “The Department of Justice.”
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Every single one of these people would be dead or wounded right now if this were a BLM protest.
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A sitting member of Congress is indicted and it's like the fourth biggest story of the day. Oh also he was the second lawmaker to endorse Trump. The first, Rep. Chris Collins, has also been indicted. This is real life.
In other huge news, Republican congressman Duncan Hunter and his wife have been indicted by DOJ for allegedly using $250,000 in campaign money for their own personal expenses, including trips to Italy and Hawaii, and dental work.
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Every single BLM argument about white privilege and double standards in law enforcement is being validated in real time right now, as the world watches.
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I'm still astonished that a U.S. special forces raid in Yemen killed an 8-year-old American girl and virtually no one is talking about it.
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Just so we're clear, the president and his advisers are falsely denouncing nonexistent social media censorship to justify a legally baseless executive order at a time when everyone else is talking about the fact that the coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 Americans.
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this is the only good 280 tweet I've seen so far
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The president of the United States told armed federal agents, "If judges give you trouble, say, 'Sorry, judge, I can't do it.'"
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New DHS IG report finds that the DHS' intel division modified a report on Russian interference in the 2020 election to blunt the impact of its finding that Russia was aiding Trump, and that acting Sec Chad Wolf ordered it frozen b/c it would "hurt POTUS."
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The Nazis had better guns than the cops. That seems like something worth discussing.
McAuliffe argues lawful authorities were outgunned by the racist mob/militia and so it was wise to avoid a fight.
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Did...did Trump just say a slain Navy SEAL is looking down happily from heaven because his mention broke an applause record?
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It's happening: The White House has ordered the EPA to delete its climate change page.
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Former DOJ spokesman: "This is a major breakdown in the rule of law."
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I want to tweet so many things about the Capital Gazette shooting but I don't want to get fired.
So I'll just say that I'm sad. I'm really, really sad.
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The most sobering part of all this is the massive gap between our national self-image (an advanced nation, the lone superpower) and our new reality (virtual tip jars, hospital beds in parking lots, corporations donating masks to doctors).
This virus has shattered the illusion.
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Typo in the first line: "Predisent." They're not running the tightest ship over there.
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The president is fundraising for his reelection campaign using an official government event that's draining money from badly needed park improvements.
SCOOP: Park Service has diverted $2.5 million in fees --normally used to improve parks around the country -- for Trump's July Fourth extravaganza as White House hands out VIP tickets to donors and Trump's campaign staff, W/
@jdawsey1
and
@DanLamothe
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Okay, whoa. When you get Halderman saying something might have happened, I start paying attention.
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There is challah French toast on the counter. (🎥: my mom)
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And that's it. Despite having two years after an unprecedented Russian cyber meddling in U.S. election systems, Congress did absolutely nothing to directly improve the security of the technology or the process.
NEW: Lankford tells me that the bipartisan Secure Elections Act won't pass before the midterm elections
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This is the vice president of the United States saying he doesn't understand why people care about the health of the planet.
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This was Fox News a few minutes ago, trying to explain a DDoS attack to their viewers. I am laughing so hard.
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Trump on alerting the FBI to foreigners promising campaign dirt: "'Oh, let me call the FBI.' Give me a break. Life doesn't work that way."
Stephanopoulos: "The FBI director says that's what should happen."
Trump: "The FBI director is wrong."
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The president told me not to believe anonymous sources
Senior admin official tells me POTUS did not accept Putin claim of non-interference in last year's election.
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It's Day 145 of the Trump administration and the president is personally under criminal investigation for obstruction of justice.
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Cannot emphasize enough how dangerous the American far right is, how little the Republican Party's leadership is doing to marginalize or denounce the terrorists in their fold, or how asymmetric the ideological extremism is in the U.S.
“We broke into the Capitol…we got inside, we did our part. We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain but we didn’t find her.” — Dawn Bancroft, arrested in Pennsylvania today, along with Diana Santos-Smith.
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Jacob Wohl trying to take down Bob Mueller is the comedic interlude we all deserve.
New from me +
@brandyzadrozny
+
@tom_winter
:
A company called “Surefire Intelligence” has ties to this Mueller smear.
Jacob Wohl denied having ties to Surefire.
Surefire’s official phone number redirects to a voicemail box registered to Jacob's mom.
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Objectively speaking, Republicans violated the SCIF's security rules and took a classified briefing hostage to demand access to which they're not entitled.
The destruction of basic governance norms continues apace.
The GOP's storming of the House Intel room (with cell phones in hand) has forced police to conduct a sweep for possible security breaches of what's supposed to be a secure room >>>
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Reminder: A federal judge determined that Kris Kobach was such a bad lawyer as Kansas Secretary of State that he had to take CLE classes.
NEW: Kris Kobach said Tuesday he is eager to become
@realDonaldTrump
's Homeland Security secretary & confirmed he's been in communication w/ White House.
@dcexaminer
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BREAKING: Ecuador admits it cut off Assange's internet due to his use of it to interfere in the U.S. election.
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“Nobody in the counterterrorism community pushed for this. None of us ever asked for it.” No interagency reviews.
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sounds familiar but when i tried to remember where i'd heard it before iran out of ideas
BREAKING: Pompeo: US to assist North Korea with its economy if it gets rid of nuclear weapons.
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A small group of current and former national security officials just leaked Mike Flynn out of a job. Does anyone think they'll stop there?
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Heinrich: Do people who are innocent of wrongdoing typically need to be reassured that they're not subject of probe?
McCabe: "No, sir."
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What a weird system France has, where the presidential candidate who gets the most votes wins the election.
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@davidmackau
"time for your coronavirus test, amber"
"why doctor smith, i don't have any money. is there ... any other way i can repay you?"
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Every so often I like to read the Wikipedia pages for basic human activities and pretend I'm an alien getting a briefing about Earth.
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SCOOP: It's done. The White House has eliminated the role of cyber coordinator, the top cyber policy job in the administration, responsible for harmonizing all agencies' activities in the cyber domain.
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@Bing_Chris
you should follow him, 50/50 chance on getting an amazing story or ending up at the bottom of the Potomac
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Apparently Dana Boente, the U.S. Attorney who announced his resignation today, was not planning to resign. His office helped with Clinton and Trump probes. Hmmm...
@ericgeller
@emptywheel
@JRutstein
@maddow
I don’t know why he was forced out, just that a few days ago he was telling people he couldn’t wait to go back. Then suddenly resigns.
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The WH counsel is reportedly trying to access a Trump surveillance FISC order. "Stunning case of interference."
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Again, it's notable that he keeps confirming the validity of the leaks.
The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by "intelligence" like candy. Very un-American!
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Biden is answering press questions now and just talked SolarWinds.
"The Defense Department won't even brief us on many things. ... I know of nothing that suggests it's under control."
"We need international rules of the road on cybersecurity."
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A senior Trump admin official says the president is "completely fucked."
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Oh man. Trump ISIS plan delayed because it's the same as Obama's and they don't want to admit it.
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sorry but I'm extremely not done reminding you that THEY FOUND F**KING LIQUID WATER ON F**KING MARS
how is this not the top story on every news site!!!!
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This is the ideal mail body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
This is the new next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your neighborhood by 2023
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Thrilled to announce that I will be the next White House director of communicaaaand I've already been fired
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The surprise is not that Trump fired Yates.
The surprise is the White House statement.
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This entire thread is as incredible and heartbreaking as this photo.
Like their human colleagues, these dogs tirelessly performed heroic, life-saving work despite extreme emotional and physical hazards.
Riley is the subject of the most famous K9 photo from 9/11. Riley was trained to find living people and was not trained to be a cadaver dog. Despite this he continued to work tirelessly. Riley passed away on 2/26/10
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Her car is at the airport here. Her dog is sitting at home waiting for her. She's lived here for seven years and she can't come back.
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Just that extremely normal thing where the FBI director threatens to resign to get the attorney general and the president's lawyer to stop pressuring him to fire his deputy.
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Initially didn't pay much attention but now starting to think today's classified SSCI briefing w/ Comey was a game changer in some way.
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Everyone, meet Millie.
She's eight weeks old, she has no idea about the coronavirus, and we're unbelievably excited to have brought her home today.
We've missed having a dog so much since we lost Maddie. We can't wait to start from step one again.
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This is going to keep happening until elected officials realize that scientists are actually telling the truth and we can't wish our way past a pandemic.
Just days after reopening its American assembly plants, Ford temporarily shut down two separate factories because employees tested positive for Covid-19
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13 federal agencies have published a landmark climate science report, creating "an unusual situation in which government policies are in direct opposition to the science it is producing."
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BBC story on Trump kompromat expands the narrative of the FISA court order. A joint USG task force!
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My mind is reeling. We've spent trillions of dollars since 2001 on security plans to respond to terrorists attacks on high-value targets, and this one is playing out with practically no resistance.
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The secretary of state didn't want to be secretary of state. He did it b/c his wife told him to. So that's a thing.
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Just got home from a long walk around downtown D.C. Have never seen the city like this. It sounds trite to say, but it was really chilling.
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Today, we're launching a major project that I've been working on for the past five months.
It's a page that tracks every state and county using paperless voting machines, including whether they plan to upgrade and where they are in that process.
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At Senate Judiciary hearing to confirm Trump's nominee to lead DOJ's Criminal Division, Feinstein says she "cannot support this nomination."
"I'm concerned that he doesn't have the qualifications or independence needed to lead this important branch of government," she says.
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Guarantee you that all of these violent extremists are on Team Just Comply With Police when officers kill Black people.
BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building — fighting federal police who are overrun
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them
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Here, courtesy of my mom, is a photo of our pet cow, caught in the act of doing what cows do, eating grass.
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President Trump is reportedly considering firing FBI Director Chris Wray because Wray won't announce that Joe and Hunter Biden are under investigation.
"Trump wants official action similar to" Comey's last-minute Clinton emails announcement in 2016.
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BREAKING: DHS Secretary John Kelly says lawful permanent residents from 7 banned countries are now allowed into the U.S.
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It sure looks like
@KimDotcom
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This is a hell of a paragraph about the president of the United States.
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Not sure how many ppl noticed but McMaster just confirmed that Bossert reached out to CIA+NSA, as WaPo reported. Guess story not 100% false.
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BREAKING: Virginia election office asks state board to decertify insecure touchscreen voting machines:
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The Russian government recently responded to the DNC's hacking lawsuit, saying that even if it did hack the DNC, that was a military activity exempt from prosecution due to Moscow's sovereign immunity.
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Whoa. At presser, Nunes just revealed IC collected info about Americans associated w/ the Trump transition team—separate from Russia probe.
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SCOOP: National Security Adviser John Bolton and his aides are considering eliminating the White House's top cybersecurity job:
Several sources say the situation is fluid, but one says it's a done deal.
The White House did not deny my story when I asked.
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Can you IMAGINE the cable news coverage of federal marshals showing up at Trump tower to serve a subpoena to Don Jr.
GRASSLEY threatens subpoena for Donald Trump Jr and Manafort if they don't appear voluntarily, tells us they may send a marshall as well
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A FEMALE Doctor? What's next, a spaceship the size of a police box with multiple bedrooms and a swimming pool?
*is handed a note*
I see.
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WOW. White House didn't seek DOJ OLC review of EO, didn't pre-brief career officials, overruled DHS on green cards.
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New: Inside the deepening crisis consuming the federal govt as agencies scramble to figure out if they've been hacked.
"This is probably going to be one of the most consequential cyberattacks in U.S. history,” a U.S. official told me.
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Oh my lord. Comey told Sessions not to leave him alone with Trump.
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If there are no consequences for attempting this breathtaking subversion of democracy, it will eventually succeed.
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After
#Andor
’s breathtaking season 1 finale, I’m calling it: This show is the best Star Wars content ever made.
Cassian finds his path with inspiration from Maarva & Nemik, Mon takes a huge step in Luthen's direction, and Ferrix reaches its breaking point.
All hail Tony Gilroy.
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Wow. DNI James Clapper just issued a rare statement saying he expressed "profound dismay" to Trump tonight about kompromat leak.
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CISA Director Chris Krebs, one of the few Trump administration officials with widespread bipartisan credibility, is reportedly telling people that he expects to be fired by the White House.
Krebs has led election security efforts through 2018 and 2020.
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Wow. USDA rescinds gag order after public outcry.
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BREAKING: In 6-3 vote, Supreme Court narrows scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, landmark cybercrime law, ruling that it doesn't cover situations where people who are authorized to access a computer system do so for improper reasons.
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The president of the United States is fanning the flames of a Gulf crisis sparked by fake comments apparently planted by Russian hackers.
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