jeremy scahill

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@ChrisRESIST I spent 4 years reporting on Trump's wars and also his domestic policy horrors. I also did a 7 part documentary series on Trump's presidency. — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@raffine9 @theintercept @mehdirhasan @MehdiHasanShow Yes, when he was a candidate for president I did an extensive comparison of the records of both Biden and Sanders on war, particularly their Iraq war positions. Biden is the current president. — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@ChrisRESIST I wrote an entire 600+ page book and made a film about Obama's wars. I spent 8 years reporting on nothing but his wars. — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

Donald Trump is an unrepentant war criminal who also initiated the Afghanistan withdrawal plan Biden is now saying he will implement. Liz Cheney is an unrepentant warmonger who happens to be technically correct about the 2020 election and also wants the US to wage endless wars. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MehdiHasanShow: What does @JeremyScahill make of the ongoing infighting between Liz Cheney and Donald Trump, who dismissed her today as… — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

Below is a clip from my wide-ranging discussion with @mehdirhasan about Joe Biden's record and the initial 100 days of his presidency on foreign policy/war. The full segment is here: https://t.co/1nQDPBQcE2 — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

Thanks to @mehdirhasan for having me on @MehdiHasanShow to discuss Joe Biden's record on war and militarism, the Afghanistan withdrawal announcement, the battle between the Trump-led GOP faction and Liz Cheney and more: https://t.co/Xfe2LMx2Gr — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

I will be discussing Joe Biden's 50-year record on war, militarism and the CIA with @mehdirhasan in a few minutes on his show on @peacocktv & live on https://t.co/hYMkciywCf — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mehdirhasan: Tonight, @jeremyscahill joins me live to talk about his new project for @theintercept on Joe Biden's decades-long foreign… — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@Lisa_ITMFA @ggreenwald @ryangrim He spent the entirety of his two terms as VP waging a war against whistleblowers. So what are you talking about? — PolitiTweet.org

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@DRBoguslaw @ryangrim Yes! I also quote you here: https://t.co/WArldhT2Gx — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@ryangrim Biden sponsored legislation to bar defense counsel for whistleblowers from subpoenaing documents. The CIA Director William Casey praised Biden and said his work in pressuring the Justice Department was “particularly significant” for the CIA’s campaign. https://t.co/WArldhT2Gx — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@ryangrim Biden's entire career is filled with episodes of rage against leakers and whistleblowers. He worked with the CIA in the 1980s to make it more difficult for defense lawyers to defend whistleblowers and leakers. And he was one of Obama's top attack dogs against Assange and Snowden — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@happybuddy23 @Shyatic That is completely false. — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@ShysterAssassin He admitted he committed a crime. Do you think there should be an investigation? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Shyatic Thanks. We just released this massive project: https://t.co/6Sm0kTYJwX — PolitiTweet.org

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@marcieleib @derekkerton I wasn't trying to dunk on you at all. I was honestly sharing my reaction to your question. Twitter often makes people appear angry or hostile when they are not! — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@marcieleib There is no exemption under the law for "needed to get it off his chest." And telling one person about an imminent operation can be far more catastrophic and damaging than leaking 100 documents. — PolitiTweet.org

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Reality Winner is serving a 5 year prison sentence for allegedly leaking 1 document. Ex-Obama chief of staff Bill Daley admitted he divulged information about an imminent raid on bin Laden to someone without a security clearance & will face zero consequence. That's how DC works. — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@marcieleib @derekkerton Reality Winner is serving 5 years(!)in prison for allegedly leaking a single document. What Daley did here is a far far far more serious of a breach than what she is alleged to have done. And yet he has faced zero consequence because he is powerful and DC elite don't get punished — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@marcieleib @derekkerton And my point is that what Daley leaked to his wife could have had serious consequences. Telling someone without a TS-SCI clearance about an imminent operation against the highest value target on earth in the eyes of the USG is a shocking breach of his security clearance. — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@marcieleib @derekkerton It is irrelevant that the person Daley leaked to is his wife. The law is not evenly applied and this fact alone is scandalous. Daley knew he was doing something wrong, which is why he "turned on the faucet, took her in the shower, shut the shower door, and whispered in her ear" — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@marcieleib @derekkerton What I was seeking to highlight is that certain powerful people are exempted from consequences of breaking the law, while ordinary people or low level employees get the book thrown at them. Same is true for James Clapper's perjury before Congress or the CIA spying on the senate. — PolitiTweet.org

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Exclusive: Internal NYPD documents show cops were sent to protests with barely any First Amendment training https://t.co/GPPkuHKwIY by @alicesperi, @JohnBolgerNYC — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

Over the coming weeks, there is going to be a fierce internal and external campaign waged by hawks to pressure Joe Biden to amend his stated plans for withdrawal from Afghanistan. Here is a thread with an overview of the situation and some analysis: https://t.co/Ibj23HRXOP — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

@marcieleib My response was a serious one. The policy is officially no tolerance for leaks. The government chooses to enforce it selectively against whistleblowers/leakers. Daley violated his security clearance. It does not have any relevance that it was to his wife. It shows the hypocrisy. — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

There are very powerful figures, including at the Pentagon & on Capitol Hill, who do not want a US withdrawal. In the coming weeks & months, it will be important to track how Biden handles this & if he will stay the course despite the pressure or start to build in more caveats. — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

Once the US pulls out its conventional military forces, hawkish figures will take every subsequent incident of violence to argue that withdrawal was a mistake. This is not a cakewalk for the Biden administration. — PolitiTweet.org

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill

The Taliban control large swaths of territory in Afghanistan and, as Biden has suggested for years, the only sustainable solution in Afghanistan will require negotiating with the Taliban. — PolitiTweet.org

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In a historical sense, this is an indictment of the Afghanistan policies of the Obama White House and raises the question of what the point was of continuing the occupation all these years. — PolitiTweet.org