Dmitri AlperovitchNov 20, 2022

There is far too little recognition of the fact that the US Intelligence Community’s ability to discover Russian invasion plans and share them with Ukraine is one of the greatest intelligence successes of the last 50 years and has had a critical impact on thwarting Putin’s imperialist ambitions.

They knew the Russian war plans better than most of the Russian military executing the invasion (who mostly had no idea they were going to war) and even members of Putin’s Security Council! Remarkable!

Show threadGirl InterruptedNov 20, 2022
@dmitri too bad the FBI couldn’t have applied that knowledge to keeping trump away from the office of the presidency. That will go down as their greatest failure in their 100 year history.
Show threadKatyNov 20, 2022

@GirlInterrupted @dmitri

😬 Absolutely not a fan of Trump, but I am glad that least on the surface the FBI is firmly against interfering in US elections.

We likely need some legal standards set for candidates such as being able to pass a security clearance check 🤷‍♀️ which we don't have, because the intelligence community doesn't want to touch that with a 10 ft pole

Show threadGirl Interrupted
@kasw @dmitri I honestly thought we had that already?
Nov 20, 2022 at 10:08pmWeb
Show threadKatyNov 21, 2022

@GirlInterrupted

Nope. It's up to the political parties to vet their candidates, there's no official screening beyond the qualifications mentioned in law/Constitution (age, citizen, that stuff)

There is no way a lot of politicians would pass a Secret or Top Secret clearance if they were trying to get an actual job that required them.