Asha Rangappa
Fmr FBI Special Agent, Counterintelligence Division. Tiger(ish) mom. @CNN analyst. Editor @just_security. Karaoke, golf, and Shakespeare aficionado. Views mine.
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Expert Summaries of Mueller Report: A Collection
Top legal experts provide condensed, brief summaries of the Special Counsel's report.
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Guys, meet @steph93065. Despite being a total nobody, Steph has 286K followers. Her lame tweet is somehow very popular within seconds of her posting it. đ¤
Read more about Steph and her fellow trolls in Summary 1.3 of our condensed Mueller Report! justsecurity.org/65863/expert-s⌠twitter.com/steph93065/staâŚ
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Trump threatens to retaliate against countries like Japan, Canada, Uruguay that issued travel warnings
A rising number of countries and organizations are issuing warnings against travel to the United States because of gun violence.
I Spent 25 Years Fighting Jihadis. White Supremacists Arenât So Different.
We canât fight domestic terror groups efficiently until the law treats them the way we treat foreign ones.
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Excellent insight from FBI counterterrorism veteran, @Ali_H_Soufan â a must read
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The story of Donald Trumpâs grandfather, who came to the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor
Friedrich Trump came to the United States as a 16-year-old barber's apprentice.
Epstein Paid $350,000 to Tamper With Witnesses, Prosecutors Say
The accusations were made by federal prosecutors who want to deny bail for Mr. Epstein, the financier facing sex-trafficking charges.
A Note on FISA "Verification"
Last week, former FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees in closed session. When, at Comeyâs request, a transcript was released shortly thereafter, mainstream news outlets mostly yawned, finding...
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2. The second is the bizarre idea that "verification" of source material in a FISA application means the FBI has to hunt down the source's sources and get the info directly (what would be the point of having a source?). @normative clears that up here
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How Vladimir Putin Is Revolutionizing Information Warfare
How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
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Excellent piece on the role of disinformation in disintegrating a shared reality (which happens to be indispensable to a democracy)
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Meet the KGB Spies Who Invented Fake News
We reveal how one of the biggest fake news stories ever concocted â the 1984 AIDS-is-a-biological-weapon hoax â went viral in the pre-Internet era. Meet the KGB cons who invented it, and the âtruth squadâ that quashed it. For a bit.
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Take 15 minutes to watch this excellent video put together by @nytimes which lays out how KGB disinformation campaigns worked (including their huge success, Operation Infektion, which claimed that the AIDS virus was a U.S. government experiment)
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How A Spat Between Two Rich People Gave Congress The Power To Get Trumpâs Tax Returns
Congress needed the documents to provide oversight of tax evasion and revenue collection.
Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
Women are increasingly playing the role of best friend, lover, and on-call therapist to their male partners.
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"Emotional gold digging": Where men cast their wives and girlfriends to play best friend, lover, career advisor, stylist, social secretary, emotional cheerleader, mom...and eventually, on-call therapist minus the $200/hour fee." Great piece đŻ
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The Truth About âSpyingâ on the Trump Campaign
The counterintelligence methods used by the F.B.I. are common â and were a legitimate response to reports of Russian interference.
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Great piece by @LBNewHaven explaining why human sources and undercover agents are FBI standard operating procedure in counterintelligence cases
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What Happens Next with the Mueller Report? The Answer May Lie in the Footnotes
"The devil is truly in the details," writes former FBI agent Asha Rangappa
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My latest in @TIME: The devil is in the details in the Mueller Report -- make sure you read the footnotes
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Mueller just told everyone to read his damn report. I read the footnotes for you â and summarize the best ones here
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Trump and Barr Vs. Congress Can Only End in a Stalemate
In this conflict between executive and legislative branches over testimony, the Constitution has no answers.
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Excellent piece by @NoahRFeldman that the impending showcase showdown between Congress and the White House puts us in unchartered constitutional territory
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Fashion Magazine - Beauty Tips, Fashion Trends, & Celebrity News
Watch runway shows from the hottest fashion designers, scope the best dressed celebrities on the red carpet street style, discover the latest and greatest beauty products to maintain a healthy glow, and get a sneak peek at our celebrity cover shoots...
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So excited and honored to have this lovely profile of me featured in elle.com (youâll learn some secrets about me you didnât know!) elle.com/culture/careerâŚ
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FBI Agent Turned CNN Analyst Asha Rangappa Wants to Restore Your Faith in America
âHaving seen how the sausage is made,â Asha Rangappa says, âI feel less worried about it.â
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So excited and honored to have this lovely profile of me featured in elle.com (youâll learn some secrets about me you didnât know!) elle.com/culture/careerâŚ
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How Barr and Trump Use a Russian Disinformation Tactic
They were able to define âcollusionâ to benefit themselves. Donât let them twist meanings again with their âspyingâ investigation.
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Are you completely confused about the difference between âcollusionâ and âconspiracyâ? If so, congratulations â youâre a victim of an information warfare tactic called âreflexive control,â as I explain here
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There's a reason that Trump is angry that FBI Director Wray won't use the term "spying." As I explain here, these kinds of vague terms are picked for a specific purpose
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@neal_katyal The Mueller Report also describes plenty of collusion. It just doesnât rise to proveable criminal conspiracy. We must stop accepting the use of these terms interchangeably
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Russians Bought Bank Accounts From California Man, Mueller Says
A California man illegally provided hundreds of bank account numbers to a Russian social media operation, the special counsel revealed.
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Asha Rangappa
Well, weâve already got one lie from Barr: Mueller did in fact charge an American man in California for his role in Russiaâs social media/disinformation operation
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The Forgotten Reason Congress Needs to See the Mueller Report
Legislators have a responsibility to police obstruction of justice, according to the Constitution.
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My thoughts on why Congress is allowed to see Mueller's findings on obstruction, regardless of what "conclusions" Barr has drawn (it includes a Hamilton reference)
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T minus 24 hours. If Barr doesn't provide the full report to Congress, I explain here why Congress can argue that it is constitutionally entitled to it
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Trumpâs Moscow Deal Is Exactly What the Framers Worried About
Self-dealing and foreign influence were their biggest fears for the presidency.
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Reupping this piece explaining why being manipulated by a foreign power while POTUS -- even if it doesn't "break the law" -- is still, and perhaps especially, grounds for impeachment
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Fruity G is out of his mind in saying itâs OK to for a campaign to get stolen info from a foreign government. As I explained in this piece, protecting the presidency against foreign influence was one of the primary concerns of our Framers
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