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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 59m @EliLake @joshrogin When did commenting on shoddy journalism become "trolling"? You have thin skin for someone who likes to dole out insults
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15h Again, @joshrogin and @EliLake make themselves a mouthpiece for some stupid GOP Hill staffer to make an inane remark. Pattycakes? Really?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw 15h If everyone is going to be paid, how about everyone comes back to work?
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Jay Newton-Small @JNSmall 15h US cuts off aid to Egypt, announcing it in the middle of the Egyptian Embassy's gala for the 40th anniversary of the military. Ouch.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16h Anyhoo, Philippe may want to do some of his brass tacks leak control at Beacon, because your fellow partners are singing like the canaries! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16h Not sure how old Ben can tear himself away from the self appointed role as guardian of the President's foreign policy vision and rhetoric. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16h Word on the street? @rhodes44 getting ready to cash out and join Beacon Global Strategies, aka Douches Incorporated.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Oct She's not getting joke here RT @EmilyMiller: Justice Scalia says he gets only two newspapers delivered -- WSJ and @WashTimes. I'm so proud!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Oct When people post a new photo on their LinkedIn accounts, I doubt they want a bunch of comments on it. Because, you know, it's not Facebook.
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Robert Danin @robertdanin 7 Oct Seems like a trend. MT @Joyce_Karam US officials walk back #Kerry's morning comments on #Syria: no need to pat #Assad regime on back.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Oct But whoever it is, he/she makes a good point. The more one looks under hood, the more you realize that HRC had few policy goals and no wins.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Oct Anonymous State official who slammed HRC for absence from Middle East? It's either Frank Lowenstein or David Wade.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Oct I suspect when people don't like @JeffreyGoldberg, he assumes it's because he's Jewish. It's more likely because he's kind of an ass. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Oct Admit it, when you heard Helen Thomas went out on a date with JFK back in the day, you asked yourself, "Wait, she was attractive once?" Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Oct Wait a minute, @robertcostanro is only in his mid-20s? My mind is blown.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Oct Remember folks, Lanny Davis would happilly represent Bashar Assad if the retainer fee was big enough. One of grossest slimeballs in DC. Expand
Tommy Vietor @TVietor08 6 Oct Dear Washington Redskins, Lanny Davis's nauseating response to Obama makes you look worse, not better.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Oct @Mitch_Stewart You may want to learn the difference between "contract" and "contrast" ...
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SportsGirl101 @Arianna8927 5 Oct Fox Falls For Fake Story About Obama Personally Funding Muslim Museum During Shutdown :/mtph m4a.org/1fQXFBP Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Oct That journalists are geeking out today on Twitter on a silly word game shows you how nerdy they really are. #AddaWordRuinaMovie Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Oct @LukeRussert @jonathanweisman @DLeonhardt Didn't @marcthiessen use the same moniker? Who plagiarzed whom here?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Oct Thanks @jonfavs for the new profile pic -- now all of us can see just how much gel you put into your precious hair!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Oct Anyone who has been a subject of a security clearance investigation knows that speed has never been a virtue here. htp:/bit.ly/1f8eIhm
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Oct So let me get this straight? House Rs OK paying federal workers to sit at home, but continue insisting that they can't earn their paychecks? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Oct Don't we all agree now that Valerie Plame and her bloviating husband Joe Wilson are a couple addicted to attention and vanity? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Oct @IvoHDaalder Thanks. I would have to say that high quality weed keeps me going on tough days.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Oct Me thinks @Peggynoonannyc and @chrismatthews should get together and swap stories, share some drinks and discuss why they are irrelevant
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Oct Spoiler alert! @Peggynoonannyc is about to educate us all on how the wise Gipper would have resolved this mess and still gone to bed by
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Oct There is something inherently odd about a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO retweeting @AndyBorowitz. Am I right, @IvoHDaalder? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Oct Why is Denis McDonough always standing in these Oval Office meetings? And who is the lady next to him? p/b:ht it.ly/16HqD3p Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Oct Can someone again brief @AmbassadorPower that Bashar Assad likely doesn't follow her Twitter feed?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Oct An unofficial CFR TMac Happy Hour tomorrow? Is the Guiness World Record for largest density of tools in one room about to be broken? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Oct For all those wondering how Ted Cruz managed to alienate everyone in Washington ask the douche who is supposedly his consigliere: @chiproytx
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Oct Oh @danaperino you were such a gleaming hope for dumb blonde airheads everywhere.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Oct Are there droves of overweight men with short sleeved shirts? MT @AnnieLowrey: Entire federal workforce is drinking on 14th Street at moment
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Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush 30 Sep Good point --> MT @dwebbKHN: Irony: if GOP weren't doing #shutdown, tmrw's headlines would be how #obamacare tech wasn't ready at midnight
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Sep Did Twitter founder @jack just compare the Pope to Iranian Prez Rouhani? Waiting for Twitter to explode in 3, 2, 1 ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Sep Obama calls Iran leader for 1st time in 30 years, yet all we're talking about is a 26 year old LA hire for a Senator near retirement. #WTF? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Sep @EricDKoch This has so blown my mind that it's taking me a while to process it. Stay tuned.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep @38_28_38 Time for a remedial spelling lesson? Or are you too stupid to know you should use "past" there?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep @38_28_38 Oh, I now see you are a woman. Let me guess, the phone don't ring too much? Buzz off, loser.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep @AdaptToReality Fair enough. Too bad the other boor has the graces of an unbathed caveman.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep @38_28_38 Wow, you're really quite the ass. If you happen to think I give a shit about your petty thoughts, you're sadly mistaken. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep @38_28_38 @AdaptToReality Why did the two of you suck me into your inane conversation? Please stop tweeting at me.
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Suzy Khimm @SuzyKhimm 26 Sep One big way that Republicans are winning this fiscal fight: Virtually no one is talking about the sequester.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber 26 Sep "Is there an example in history of losing party issuing threats to force majority to implement its rejected agenda?" h:/npt ymag.com/daily/intellig-demand-implemnt-romney-encer/2013/09/republican- ransom ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep @rockrichard @jaketapper @Diplopundit All military personnel deemed essential personnel during a shutdown and will be paid. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep Has there ever been news organization so convinced its internal promotions and other personnel news of interest to rest of us as @politico?
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Michael Linden @MichaelSLinden 26 Sep Remember all those times the Democrats threatened a default unless Pres. Bush repealed his tax cuts? No? Me neither. Retweeted by NatSecWonk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep Yo, @csis - you may want to learn the distinction between "peek" and "peak" per the email you just sent out.
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Dan Zak @MrDanZak 26 Sep At least 20 journalists have taken high-profile positions in the Obama administration within the past 5 years. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/stylml...3e/times-stengel-latest-in-long-line-of- reporters-who-jumped-to-jobs-in-obama-administration/2013/09/25/397c1fa-24- 1e3-b73c-ab60bf735d0_story.ht
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep If one wanted to deflect persistent rumors that one is gay what better way to debunk than corresponding with a random stripper? #corybooker
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep But where was Josh's partner in justice, liberty, and conservative talking points @elilake to defend his honor and take revenge? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep Just a hunch, but I have the sense lots of people would like to punch @joshrogin in the face.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Sep @David_Shorr Aha, I knew it was something obvious that I was just too dim-witted to get!
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Nora Caplan-Bricker @NCaplanBricker
. @juliajfisher on the absurd nepotism
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Sep @David_Shorr And that doesn't apply to Cruz? Just trying to understand the joke here.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Sep Funny how @SangerNYT constantly pimps cyberattacks as "defining" element of Obama foreign policy-does it have anything to do with his book?
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Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg 25 Sep My impression is that many Cubans would have fled Communism to America despite the existence of Obamacare. Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Sep @GlennThrush Or if Rand Paul hadn't?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Sep So @michaeleohanlon finally joined Twitter? Someone should tell him he can tweet more than "I had honor of writing something with someone".
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Sep Tweets like this are why so many soured on you. MT @AmbassadorPower: Wrapping up a busy day at #UNGA and of course defining speech by POTUS
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Sep Uh, why? RT @joshtpm: I think we all know why Rubio probably couldn't manage a filibuster for more than an hour and ten minutes Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Sep Malfeasance in PR? @rhodes44 talking up an Obama-Rouhani handshake for the past week and then it fizzles today.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Sep @RachelKleinfeld Fair enough. My "Brownnose Extraordiniare" joke was intended to refer to your organization, not you, actually. View conversation
Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT 22 Sep Reading @TNR and @NYMag on the Clintons won't make you believe that HRC can lose nomination in '16, but it will make you wish she could.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Sep Huma may have had a crush on Doug Band? Wow, for someone so accomplished, she really does have TERRIBLE taste in men, eh? Expand
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore 22 Sep Here's that TNR story I Tweeted about earlier. Quite a read from the talented @AlecMacGillis htp:/on.tnr.com/1aXfBFn Retweeted by NatSecWonk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Sep Didn't everyone already have the feeling that Doug Band is a major league jackass? Congrats to @tnr for confirming our assumptions. Expand
Micah Zenko @MicahZenko 22 Se e his w s f wed by “ O .” RT @State_IO1h @AmbassadorPower: I take very seriously the feedback I receive on twitter & online
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Ben Smith @BuzzFeedBen 22 Sep That @NYMag Clinton interview sure
does seem timed to step on a deeply-reported, damaging Clinton story popping tonight in another mag.
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Byron York @ByronYork 22 Sep Just for record: I believe GOP's last chance to stop Obamacare before implementation was 2012 election.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Sep You heard it here first: @NinaHachigian to be nominated shortly as US Ambassador to APEC - it pays to be a CAP alum in this Administration.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Sep This has Dukakis in a tank written all over it! /bp:thit.ly/1dwWZNw
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Sep Its awfully cute to see a bunch of people foaming at the mouth about the latest great hope for Foggy Bottom's public diplomacy #nothappening
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Sep So the new Bash-Reines-Shapiro-Allen consulting shop is throwing a comingout party on September 30th at the Corcoran - Coronas for everyone!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep I have lost track of the number of efforts by Foggy Bottom to launch "digital diplomacy". Anyone remember Charlotte Beers? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep So many people out of work, never mind clearances, how does a loser like Aaron Alexis even get hired for a good job with a govt. contractor?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep Should you hire anyone who can't figure out how to properly list his/her first and last name on LinkedIn? Seriously, people. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep Remember folks, every time @marcthiessen bloviates about Obama, this is the same fat pig who used to work for racist in chief Jesse
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep Highlight of week? The clown who declared he didn't want to make a big deal he's moving to LA, but then told @mikeallen for his gossip rag.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep So @RachelKleinfeld announces she's stepping down as head of the Truman Project. What does this mean for future of Brownnose Extraordinaire?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep When will @grahamblog provide concrete verifiable assurances that he is in fact a straight man? Which no one believes, by the by.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep It's as if Petraeus seeks out the biggest tools of the next generation to take under his wing -- or better yet, underneath him. #broadwell Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep Per my tweet from the other day, a fellow Tweeter reminds me that David Petraeus, who also recently joined KKR, is oddly fond of young Vance
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Sep Yo people, it wasn't just Bob Gates and Leon Panetta who cast doubts on Obama's Syria policy. So did Mike Morell, just recently his CIA guy
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Sep Why on earth would a major hedge fund hire a former Lieberman neocon foreign policy advisor? Value proposition anyone?/bhp:tit.ly/1f3jxac
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Sep Between today's baffling withdrawal from the IL Gov race and the tell- all books thrashing his role as Obama CoS, tough times for Bill Daley. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Sep But now that I see @politico also has a nice puff piece on Blinken on THE SAME DAY, I'm beginning to wonder what's up here. Expand
Jon Lovett @jonlovett 16 Sep People who spread misinformation about new law decry confusion over new law.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Sep @TVietor08 Yeah, but come on, everyone knows that all Biden does is hyperbole!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Sep One final observation: I have no doubt that Les Gelb was unnamed journalist who recommended Blinken for 1st job in Clinton Administration.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Sep Blinken very talented and smart, but article a powerful reminder of how much family connections can help grease the skids in

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Sep Lengthy + interesting profile of Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken on front page of today's Style section thtp:/wapo.st/15yLZgD
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Sep @emilycadei All Hill staffers are more than pleased that crazy ass @YleemPoblete is no longer spouting her nonsense on a government payroll.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Sep @EricDKoch Look, Issa is an ass, but he's on to something here with the @HillaryClinton whitewash of accountability for Benghazi. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Sep Photo goof notwithstanding, the @joshrogin piece highlights why some consider mousy Pat Kennedy the most powerful official at State Dept.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Sep Fast footwork there, as the original link had photo of former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, not U/S Kennedy! RT @joshrogin: thtp:/bit.ly/1aCTeF1
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Sep . @JeffreyGoldberg It's also a subtle rip against his likely 2016 rival, @HillaryClinton
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Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg 15 Sep Joe Biden, master of subtlety, calls John Kerry the greatest secretary of state in the history of secretaries of state. Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Sep A photo of the breakfast session this morning at the outside cafe does show Wendy Sherman n the house, however.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Sep Peeps, we need more backstory on who was with Kerry during these three long days of negotiations. "Arms control experts" doesn't cut it. Expand
Gerald F Seib @GeraldFSeib 14 Sep The effort to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons could cause some discomfort for Israel, Egypt. thtp:/on.wsj.com/18d6UlQ Retweeted by NatSecWonk
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Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush 14 Sep Flashback: My Feb. 2013 story on Kerry's rejection of Hillary's play-it- safe diplomatic style, desire to take risks p/w.htp: olitico.com/story/2013/02/njohn-kery-the-un-hilary-cliton- ...
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Michael Crowley @CrowleyTIME 14 Sep John Kerry's best day since the 2004 Iowa primary?

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Sep @LizOBagyPhD Just regular boxers.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Sep @LizOBagyPhD You're attractive enough - screw coffee, how about a drink?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Sep @LizOBagyPhD Umm, thanks for the mention? What do you want?
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Peter Hamby @PeterHambyCNN 12 Sep in S.C. in 2007, Hillary's team was paying state legislators, while Obama's was quietly doing GOTV dry runs in state leg special elections
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Sep And, hey, @SenBobCorker - are you really taking potshots at Obama when you are running Amateur Hour over there as lead Republican on SFRC?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Sep I love how @richardhaass talks a big game when he accomplished zilch as Colin Powell's feckless and overwhelmed Policy Planning chief.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Sep Sounds like @marieharf never heard of Margaret Tutwiler:
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Sep Hey @mikeallen I doubt that photo of you all sweaty, gross, and aneroxic-looking is going to draw the ladies.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Sep Let me tell you, Mr. President, the balcony at my new penthouse at the Waldorf Astoria FUCKING rocks!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Sep I'm an ass at times on Twitter, I freely admit, but I have nothing on @JeffreyGoldberg
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Sep Is it just a coincidence that a key player in Aspen Institute's homeland security program happens to be the wife of a former DHS Secretary? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Sep Re today's scandal in credentialing - nobody at Institute for Study of War asked how someone who "recently" earned a Masters also had a PhD?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Sep Is this "Top 99 under 33" by something called the Diplomatic Courier a parody? Who knew action officers in bureaucracy were future leaders?
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Tommy Vietor @TVietor08 11 Sep Somewhere in hell, Osama bin Laden and Gaddafi are quietly admitting that Bob Corker is completely wrong.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Sep @GlennThrush He's probably still wondering how a political hack became his boss ....
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber 10 Sep Real profile in courage for McConnell to announce opposition to Syria resolution just as it was becoming moot. Such leadership!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep Touching that this is news to you. RT @EliLake: . @JRubinBlogger is not a fan of President Leadership's #Syria speech htp:/bit.ly/1eC4lAC
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep Remember when Dems mocked Bush for hailing Georgia and Moldova as members of Iraq "Coalition of the Willing"? So why is Obama WH doing same?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep Wasn't aware that Scott Gould (aka Mr. Michele Flouronoy) stepped down from VA #2 post in May. Can you say "cha ching" at their house?
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JeffreyLewis@ArmsControlWonk10Se C e s id:“Id ’ hi we eed
rush out right now with our hair on fire." Tell me more about the occasions when you think we should.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep I almost peed in my pants when I found out that @CNASdc is doing a live stream of the POTUS speech. Could today get ANY better? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep The "Hail and Farewell" at State on Thursday for Frantz, Psaki, Harf, and Hammer has been postponed. Hmm, I wonder why that could be.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep Fairly certain this is bullshit on the past of the White House: bit.ly/14Idel3
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Hayes Brown @HayesBrown 10 Sep Man, we have to let Kerry think out loud more often. Maybe next time he'll solve India/Pakistan by accident.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep Seriously -- @LinkedIn has to STOP flooding my inbox with updates on "work anniversaries" and birthdays -- nobody gives a fuck.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep Yeah, Wolf, work those arms just a little bit lower ... RT @gwenifill: This was an @wolfblitzer idea. bhtp:/ it.ly/1dW60SU Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep Am I the only one chuckling that @AmbassadorRice and @rhodes44 now touting the comments of non-U.S. government official Hillary
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep Or that Tony was responsible for him getting a gig with Biden at the start of the Administration, which led to him becoming WH spokesman.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep Surprised that Jay Carney didn't mention today that he and Tony Blinken once jammed together in a white boy band.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep @joshrogin Eh, baseless speculation is always still fun to read.
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Tommy Vietor @TVietor08 9 Sep When Obama tries to share burden in Libya, GOP says he's leading from behind. If he responds to CW use in Syria, they say impeach. Discuss.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep RT @OMTorah: please don't write me an email ending with: 'thoughts?'
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep @AnnieLowrey Fair enough. It just came across as if the crime was all the worse because he was a veteran.
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Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg 8 Sep Touting the endorsements of Bush Administration officials is not a way to win the Syria vote: w/:pt.b/whloomberg.com/blogs/view/jef...frey-goldberg/
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Reynold Sheldon @InfluentialHack 8 Sep Nothing is more reassuring than the trio of Michele Bachmann, Steve King & Louie Gohmert taking it upon themselves to conduct Foreign Policy
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Sep And wife of Kurt Campbell. RT @davidmwessel: Treasury international official Lael Brainard is in the running for one of Fed vacancies. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Sep @AnnieLowrey This is an outrage. But why does it matter that he is a veteran? Would it be OK if he never served in the military? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Sep @John_Hudson That was just code by Denis for "I could give a crap on what this little conservative shit thinks."

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Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg 8 Sep If it is true that @jstreetdotorg is not going to support @BarackObama, then it shouldn't expect the W.H. to care about its M.E. positions.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Sep Per earlier tweet by @jonathanweisman -- Republicans always better at party unity behind their President than Democrats historically. Expand
Jonathan Weisman @jonathanweisman 8 Sep Repubs stuck w/ Bush on an Iraq land invasion out of loyalty long after it began to hurt bad. Democrats won't stick w/ Obama on air strikes.
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Robert Draper @DraperRobert 7 Sep Anthony Weiner, polling at 7%, is on Meet the Press tomorrow. #misterseptember #ThisTown
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt 8 Sep WH redoubling Syria lobby effort after initial case by Obama, Kerry, Hagel didn't sell. @MarkLandler @jonathanweisman nytimes.com/2013/09/08/us/tle-for-syria-votes-taut-and- uphil.html?paewanted=al...gpolitics/obamas-bat
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Tommy Vietor @TVietor08
"It's gone baby. It's in your head that's the only place" - @TheJuanWilliams slapping down @FoxNewsSunday panel on #Benghazi being a scandal
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep Or anonymous accounts like me. MT @AthertonKD: The very first rule of twitter fights is don't engage anyone with an egg avatar.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep @JPHernandez By the way, douchebag, you started this thread, which means you were following me. I don't follow you, if that's not clear.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep @JPHernandez Even if that were the case, I would be more successful than some anonymous aide to a random City Council
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep @JPHernandez And that's my point -- no one in the Congress or the public cares what Albright thinks. She's yesterday's news.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep @JPHernandez Because this is a parody Twitter account. I could ask why you spend your time battling anonymous people on the Internet.

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep @JPHernandez Of course not, asshat. But the White House/State Department isn't trumpeting my views on this resolution.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep Except when he ripped you guys on Iraq pullout MT @TVie 08: C i ic e d seme “@ i ic : Pe e s s g y b c s Ob m
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep Does anyone seriously think Madeleine Albright still has any sway over any Member of Congress? Her support for Syria resolution irrelevant.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep @robertdanin Why does Obama need to call a Senator who is already supporting him on Syria resolution?
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Eliana Johnson @elianayjohnson 7 Sep @ron_fournier @TVietor08 Source in Hadley/Edelman meeting told me the two made enormous effort to sway skeptical GOP congressional staff
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Robert Danin @robertdanin
Interesting-joining Sec Kerry to #Europe both US ambo to #Syria Robert Ford & Israel-Palestinian envoy @Martin_Indyk. state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2013/09/21392.htm...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep @nicolegaouette Let us know which aides of his are traveling on the plane, will you?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep Tony Blinken taking very prominent PR role as WH gears up for Syria vote. Message to former Rice aide angling for his job: he's not leaving.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Sep If Obama does Syria strike if only Senate approves, isn't that like saying Obamacare could have passed with House-only majority in 2010?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep @peterbakernyt I am familiar with the over-the- top use of "senior Administration official". But "top-level" is something else entirely. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep Utterly fascinated by how the OBAMA Administration is now dismissive of UN weapons inspectors and foreign views RE bit.ly/17UIu6u
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep a dime a dozen in the government. A huge stretch to call her a "former top DOD official", no? (2/2)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep Hey @peterbakernyt - no offense intended to brooks_rosa but she was a senior advisor to an Under Secretary at OSD. Those positions are (1/2)
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Micah Zenko @MicahZenko 5 Sep Translation guide for understanding US foreign policy. atfp.co/18vAQf7
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep @CHRISTO57512115 Huh? Are you saying Jesus is on Twitter? #takeafuckingjoke
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep Is it just me, or with the Jews celebrating Rosh Hashanah tonight, is Twitter much quieter?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep And the J. Michael Allen hire is the cherry on the top. It's fitting that a bunch of douche Democrats would join forces with a douche GOPer Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep But I like that Beacon hired two junior female employees to dispel any impression it is a frathouse disguised as a "strategic advisory firm" Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep Third, is Beacon Strategies going to offer sexual harrassment seminars for their employees? Me thinks it may come in a bit handy. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep Second, do these fuckers actually think anyone will pay them for their expertise or savvy? All they are is a revolving door straight to HRC. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep No HRC White House means that Reines and Shapiro don't get into the visitors lobby of any government building for the rest of their lives. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep First, the sheer audacity of these clowns that they "expect" to return to government service in the future and want to keep options open. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep So I have all sorts of questions on "Beacon Global Strategies LLC". Indulge me for a moment if you will.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep Yo bitches, I called this back in April. Gve credit where credit is due, but I missed blonde bimbo J. Michael Allen :/bhtpt it.ly/15w3R8h
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep Hey Ed Markey, you just got elected to one of the safest seats in the Senate. What the fuck is up with the present vote today?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep As SecDef, he is sullen and morose. He looks like a man entirely miserable in his new job. Wonder if WH is having second thoughts. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep As a Member, Hagel was eloquent, animated, and never lacking for an opinion. He seemed almost joyful in his give and take.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep Watching Hagel last two days, I am struck by contrast betwwen his demeanor now and how he acted as a Senator during Congressional hearings.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep Is the Manatos family to lobbying what the Kennedys are to politics and the Hefners are to soft-core porn?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep Regarding the new company which @mikeallen christened this morning with his own special blow job, was moniker "Douches R Us" already taken?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep @benjaminja Are you a groupie of @rhodes44? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep @benjaminja The piece is pablum talking points and fine. Yes, the problem is with a PR flack making the case for war and piece.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep For today's USA Today op-ed, Tony Blinken wasn't available? Bill Burns? Jim Miller? All far better choices than @rhodes44 Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep When will the White House learn that trotting out @rhodes44 to make a substantive case on foreign policy only invites eye rolling? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep BREAKING: John McCain to ask for delay today by Sen For Rel Committee in consideration of MenendezCorker draft resolution, feels too rushed
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep Instead, resolution text only allows response to use of WMD by Syrian government inside Syria. Sloppy drafting or something larger afoot? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep Menendez-Corker resolution, as written, would prevent U.S. action if Syria used chemical weapons against Israel or any other nation. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep Geez, can't Doug Frantz stay in a job longer than two years at a time? huff.to/14WB4Nt
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Olga Belogolova @olgs7 3 Sep This RT @SenJohnMcCain: Scandal! Caught playing iPhone game at 3+ hour Senate hearing - worst of all I lost!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep In what universe does John McCain only get to ask questions after heavyweights Jim Risch and Jeff Flake have their turns? #sfrc #syria Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep In that exchange with Ron Johnson, you just know Kerry was itching to scream "WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE, SENATOR?" Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep All Democrats privately cringe when Barbara Boxer goes on and on like this. And what's with the glasses?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep Smart move by Kerry to bring Terese for the sympathy factor and soften potential questions. He's still a politician, folks! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep It wouldn't be a big time Hill hearing without the obligatory crazy person rant from a Code Pink protester. God bless them.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep Bob Menendez wants to make sure everyone knows he is Jersey cool with that very Mafia pinstriped suit he is wearing.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep Will do my best to live tweet this Syria hearing this afternoon to share my snark - until my boss finds out, that is. And with that ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep #TwitterisNotfor boosting your ego by constantly RTing words of praise for yourself. You just come across as a major league jackass. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep So, upset or pleased? MT @JeffreyGoldberg: Unless I'm mistaken @nytimes cut all references to AIPAC from this story: nytimes.com/2013/09/03/woridleast/syria.html?hp.../dlm
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep @marcambinder BTW, I can only imagine how uncomfortable that conversation likely was.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep Wow. So our former NATO Ambassador @ivohdaaldrer says anyone who votes against Syria res endorses CW use. RE :/btpthit.ly/18mwGWP Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep So has Kelly Ayotte been dropped from the McCain-Graham buddy coalition? She has been oddly quiet on Syria in recent days. That's good, BTW
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Peter Hamby @PeterHambyCNN 2 Se RT @ zzFeed e .@ i yC i wh ’s your view on military action in Syria?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep @Jeremy10036 @metaquest Pretty sure both AIPAC and the Obama White House would violently dispute that assertion.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep @marcambinder I am not you. That said, if I was you, how would this tweet prove anything? But, again, to said target, I'm not Marc.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep I can assure you that I am no CIA agent. :/ypthhoo.it/17tO6Eq
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Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg 2 Sep MT: @Curtisryan1 Re-usable tweet: Arab League meets, discusses, decides somebody, not the AL, should do something, breaks for lunch.
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Barron YoungSmith @byoungsmith 2 Sep Blurred lines really is the song of the summer #syria
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep Will be interesting if John Kerry testifies on Tuesday at Sen For Rel hearing on behalf of Administration. Can't see anyone else do it. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep Solid piece by @WSJSolomon highlights how Kerry is so much more willing to go to the mat than HRC, who was almost paralyzed by caution.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep This "flood the zone" approach to Syria vote will be hampered by weak WH leg affairs shop and a leaderless H bureau in the State Department.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Sep @davidakaye @opiniojuris How do you propose we find out what happened and settle this friendly wager?
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Barron YoungSmith @byoungsmith 1 Sep Is Obama headed for a League of Nations moment on Syria? on.tnr.com/12YnE2r
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber 1 Sep Love the fact that the 2 people quoted at outset of Politico's "Bushies fear Obama weakening presidency" story are John Yoo & John Bolton...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Sep Backpack wearing Tim Rieser has his revenge! MT @mikeallen: SIREN: Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy says Dem aides drafting new war language
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Sep Why is Bill Kristol still invited to the Sunday talk shows? He is as discredited as his little bitch boy @dansenor
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Sep The key Hill guys for Obama are, and will always continue to be, Joe Biden, Denis McDonoughm and Rob Nabors. Everyone else is peripheral.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Sep Also, that lead WH staffer on Hill relations, Miguel Rodriguez, not in room for any of these meetings underscores how marginal his role is. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Sep That Obama only called Kerry/Hagel AFTER he made decision with his WH aides on going to Hill underscores how all foreign policy is WH-based.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Sep Big question for next few days: will Administration confirm that it will proceed with a strike regardless of whether Congress says yes? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug @jonathanweisman Wait, are they allowing reporters to sit in on this classified briefing? No? Then what's there to report on? View conversation
LOLGOP @LOLGOP 31 Aug Can you impeach a president for making you vote on something you pretended you wanted to vote on? Asking for a foe.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug I'm willing to bet serious money that State/L saw this text for the first time the rest of us did.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug Brian Egan, who recently replaced Avril Haines as chief national security lawyer on WH staff, likely author of the use of force resolution.
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Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush 31 Aug And the award for best-timed retirement goes to... Tom Donilon!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug Hearing that Bob Menendez planning hearings in Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Syria resolution for this Tuesday and Wednesday.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug Hey @nancypelosi -- tonight may not have been the best timing to send out a fundraising email. "As of 7 PM."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug Maybe it's time to write about the NFL again? MT @MaxBoot: Wonder if #Obama is hoping Congress, a la Parliament, will block
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug 2) Suprising acceptance and recognition of legitimacy of the War Powers Resolution to degree I have not seen from any previous President.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug 1) Administration appears to be concerned over future use of BW as much as more CW attacks, based on specific references to former in text.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug My two takeaways from the White House proposed text for a use of force authorization resolution sent to the Congress today?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug @lrozen I believe the President of the United States has the right to change his mind and overrule his staff.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug @GroverNorquist @eclinton7 Does that include the Senate? Nope. No wonder you're such a fucking dumb ass.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug Does this mean @AmbassadorRice challenged COS Denis McDonough in first real battle and lost? nhtp:/ bcnews.to/15gDB1E
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug For people who think DC has become too stage-managed and predictable, today was a delightful exception.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug @lrozen Who pulled what rug out?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug @inteldump @margarettalev She said that he worked in 2008 campaign. But she also said that he worked for Obama in Senate. That's different.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug Why do so many reporters like @margarettalev assume Denis McDonough worked for Obama when he was a Senator? Check your facts, he never did.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug Hey @rhodes44, should we get you a footrest so you relax those legs?/thbtp:it.ly/15gzW3J
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug FYI, from clockwise, that's POTUS, Nabors, Rice, Blinken, Egan, McKeon, Pfeiffer, Rhodes, and COS Denis standing. h/b/:pt it.ly/15gzW3J
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug @leftleaningec @pettybooshwah @lefttleaningnec Forgive me, I am just getting on the Internet after the hell known as a kid's birthday party
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug @ArmsControlWonk There is a time and place for a bright pink shirt. Sitting in the Sit Room deciding whether to go to war is not one of them
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug Prediction: Republicans who criticized Obama yesterday for "imperial behavior" will now criticize him for eroding Executive authority.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug I have always wondered what self-respecting corporation would actually hire the Leveretts as "consultants": /bt:hpt it.ly/1dwHlE9
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug I'm sure Steve Krupin would meet for coffee. /1:pth.usa.gov/16Z3s0T
RT @gwenifill: If I haven't already, I want to meet Kerry's speechwriter
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Shreeya Sinha @ShreeyaSinha 31 Aug What happens if Assad launches CW attacks after US srike? Can US get off path & still maintain political credibility? /htp:/nyti.ms/17pspnh
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The Atlantic @TheAtlantic 31 Aug How an insular Beltway elite makes wars of choice more likely theatln.tc/184JFfE
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug Remember when I told you all about crappy national security appointments in the Obama Administration. Well, more are on the way, alas.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug @GlennThrush @shearm Would bet $1K that this former official is @TVietor08 -- only he would relish in the use of expletives against leaks!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug The idea that just because we have intercepts of Syrians talking about a CW attack days before does not mean we could have warned people.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug So @foreignpolicy doesn't really understand intel collection. You can collect intercepts but not have chance to evaluate them for days. Expand
Stew @StewSays 30 A g A Se . McC e ’s eq es , he Whi e se wi b ief GOP Senators on #Syria in a conference call Saturday. (1 of 2)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug @adamentous The ROKs are wrong here because any CBW attack on South Korea will almost assuredly include some of the 35,000+ US troops there.
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Michael Cohen @speechboy71 30 Aug Wondering what the Wash Post was thinking in publishing the names of NSA analysts possibly involved in OBL search m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switts-own-team-of-elte- hackers/...ich/wp/2013/08/29/the-nsa-has-i
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug @TJ22Hatter But in the service of multilateral ideals always.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug Love how tweets of @AmbassadorPower in the last week repudiating her entire career of genuflection to the gods of multilateral diplomacy. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug I am told @jonfiner starts at Foggy Bottom as John Kerry's White House minder next week. Good luck coralling Kerry -- a human loose cannon!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug So anyone else predict in 2007 that Barack Obama would ignore views of Congress, military, and int. community in pursuing military action?
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John Harwood @JohnJHarwood 29 Aug Ex-Obama foreign pol aide, asked if any doubt we'll hit Syria: "No." Is administration already having 2nd thoughts? "Yes. Not a great combo"
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Amal Hanano @AmalHanano 29 Aug You all knew what was happening in #Syria day after day, name by name. 100,000 dead, a country destroyed & you ask for evidence? #Shame
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Steve Livingston @ToledoSteve 29 Aug @NatSecWonk @emptywheel John McCain was missing because he was well represented with Lindsey Graham on the call. Retweeted by NatSecWonk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug Who's missing? Majority Leader Reid, Minority Leader McConnell and John McCain. And this checks box on consultation? pic.twitter.com/us3q5jrTu2
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Jim Ludes @JMLudes 29 Aug RT @TheFix: RT @mikememoli: Final count: 26 members of Congress on tonight's Syria briefing call, according to the White House. Out of 535.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug @lrozen I'm not commenting on the messenger. I'm just saying the message itself has some validity. That is all.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug Bush offered shifting rationales for Iraq invasion in 2003, I give you that. But he made multiple speeches to find something that stuck. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug We all enjoy hating on Don Rumsfeld. So do I. But he makes valid point that Obama has not yet laid out genuine case for military strike. Expand
Blogs of War @BlogsofWar 29 Aug How can people watch governments fumble around like this and still buy into grand conspiracies?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug Let's face it-Obama team's haste to get UN inspectors out of way in Syria oddly familiar to Bush team's treatment of IAEA inspectors in Iraq
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug Hope the White House learned its lesson from last time and won't have @rhodes44 emcee tomorrow's presentation of evidence on Syria CW.
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Adam Entous @adamentous 29 Aug Assad takes advantage of week of US saber rattling to spread out military assets, complicating strike planning ohtp:/ n.wsj.com/17mErzs
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug Why does @LinkedIn spam my inbox with "congratulations" for peoples' birthdays? Is this a professional networking site or 3rd grade again?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug @shawnbrimley @cnasdc Smart piece. If only the leads for strategic planning at NSC and State weren't so lacking in gravitas and expertise.
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AdamBlickstein @AdamBlickstein 28 Aug @NatSecWonk Well the only reason people are really active on LinkedIn is for job hunting, so makes sense??? Retweeted by NatSecWonk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug Wait, @hillaryclinton has a LinkedIn account? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug Maybe Huma is wishing that @anthonyweiner just paid someone to pretend to be his wife?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug Maybe it's time Americans stop being stupid and traveling into this gulag state. RT @AmbassadorRice: #DPRK should grant Kenneth Bae amnesty
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug Remember that "leading from behind" quote that has come to define Obama's approach to foreign policy? When will @rhodes44 admit he said it?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug @glendo13 Nice. Certainly looks like the latter ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug President Obama appears intent that any military strike does the least damage to the Assad regime and balance of power on the ground. #truth
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Aug @JMLudes Are you not embarrased to admit that you watch @andersoncooper?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Aug Did I just wake up from a nightmare circa 2007? @c_heller: You're Steve Clemons! And you're Steve Clemons! pic.twitter.com/V4wOEkQ6LO
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Embarrassing a guy who wants to run for Prez can't get better placement than Politico. Speaks to quality of piece mobile.politico.com/story.cfm?id=9e5875&cat=topnws...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Aug And who was Prez then? MT @EliLake: Important piece on how US helped Saddam even though it knew he used chem weapons bit.ly/16KIkvr
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Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush 26 Aug The pressure to act on Syria coming from everywhere except the American public. That's bullet point #1 in Obama's intracranial PowerPoint.
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Trita Parsi @tparsi 25 Aug Most people already knew Eli Lake was a warmonger and fabricator, butthisisaverydamningaccounthtp:/arpers.org/blog/2013/08/aference- cal/...dnatomy-of-an-al-qaea-con @MehdiRHasan
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Aug How pathetic is @maxboot for threatening to sue @politico over this article? You ever heard of the 1st amendment? pht:/politi.co/170xp3i
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Aug The WSJ pays $4000 for an op-ed to a non- expert? Wow. politi.co/170xp3i
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Aug Hey @AmbassadorRice I doubt that Assad is reading your Twitter feed, so you can dispense with the tough-sounding macho tweets from today.
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Justin Amash @repjustinamash 23 Aug Congress hasn't authorized war against Syria. Unless Pres Obama expects imminent attack on U.S., use of force is unconstitutional & illegal.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Aug Does any serious UN expert doubt that Ban Ki Moon is the weakest UNSYG in modern history?
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Doug Saunders @DougSaunders 22 Aug This happened yesterday. RT

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Aug Why is @GlennThrush subjecting all of his Twitter followers to his screaming match with some troll this evening?
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James Fallows @JamesFallows 21 Aug .@frankrichny I'm in WY this week. Last 6 people I asked about Liz Cheney said, 'You kidding? What does she have to do with Wyoming?' etc
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Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT 21 Aug It's going to seem strange to future
generations that this WH intervened in Libya but not Syria. Not inexplicable by any means, but strange.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Aug Would Mika even understand what the fuck this means? RE bit.ly/16NSUUR
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Diplopundit @Diplopundit 20 Aug @rhodes44 @IvoHDaalder @whitehouse wow, you can barely find the SecState in the site.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Aug Egypt crumbles/Syria burns and this idiot trumpets website redesign. MT @rhodes44: Check out our revamped @whitehouse foreign policy website
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Aug Good reporting by @joshrogin on reinstatement of Benghazi bureuacrats. But, again, I ask, when does Pat Kennedy stop being untouchable?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Aug In a town full of egos, Ash Carter may have one of the largest. Unlikely that he views a mere ex-politician as an intellectual equal. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Aug So @glubold hits it out of the park. Everyone at the five squared building knows Ash views Hagel with condescension. atfp.co/16YdcaC
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Aug Remember when you made fun of people sharing dumb "how we met" stories for the NYT Sunday Styles section? Now its idiots telling @mikeallen
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug Growing problem for the Administration -- too many 1st term holdovers not getting the hint that it's time to move on and get the fuck out.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug Hoping Jeff Bezos can fix dumb new @washingtonpost policy: not giving credit for delivery suspensions because U can access online edition.
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Tom Gara @tomgara 18 Aug Larry having his poster turned into Egypt army propaganda is *perfect* Curb Your Enthusiasm plot pic.twitter.com/9IWACY4v6v (via @DaveSmithNYT)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug Loved, LOVED the @NYTimesDowd column eviscerating the Clintons today. @ChelseaClinton seems to be assuming all of her parents' vices ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug Here's me and Dad, calling up an escort service for a little "company" this fine summer afternoon! RT @BeauBiden: pic.twitter.com/fcAZXKD9TS
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug @LeoShane @ggreenwald @laurenist Maybe if Snowden wasn't such an egomaniacal douchebag who keeps drawing attention to himself ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug I feel sorry for the poor @CFR_Org intern who has to research the statistics to make @RichardHaass tweets look smart and erudite. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug Most masters degree programs have been jokes for some time -- $$$ for a paper credential. Glad to see this coming! thtp:/nyti.ms/14WBvXr
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug Hey @peterbakernyt I like your reporting, but please stop with the RTs of praise for your articles. It's a bit unbecoming for a NYT reporter Expand
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug Someone should tell @mikeallen that @jasonfurman is not older than Tim Geithner!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Aug Instead @AmbassadorRice dismisses advice of NSC staff save for a few and disinvites high level State/Defense officials from key PC meetings.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Aug So @MarkLandler argues in new piece that @AmbassadorRice is more inclusive. I'm hearing the exact opposite.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Aug @Floppin_Dilbo I'll take him over Fred Hiatt any day.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Aug Everyone should read @JacksonDiehl devastating takedown of Obama foreign policy. Clear sign that @AmbassadorRice is stumbling in early days
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Aug So @MaxBoot is an expert on football? I'm guessing he would have been the last guy picked for a team in recess back in elementary school.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Aug @ForeignPolicy @John_Hudson Including @IvoHDaalder based on his tweets today. RT
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Aug Can @politicalwire please shut the fuck up about his silly worthless "Prime" feature? You're a message board for posts on political news. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Aug Bob McDonnell's biggest mistake? Marrying his wife. And, man, she's put on the pounds since her Redskins cheerleader days ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Aug Am I the only one unaware that a groundswell of support is emerging for Amy Klobuchar to run for President? What exactly has she done? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Aug Great piece on fraud of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Their foreig policy program a hub of neconservative analysis. thtp:/wapo.st/143yc0R
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Aug Here, here! @jrubinblogger is a pathetic disgrace to the Washington Post and all of journalism. pht:/politi.co/143wTz8 Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Aug @ArmsControlWonk @joshgerstein Asopposed to any other Presidential advisory board?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Aug Welcome to all my new followers. I'm your Twitter account to follow if you want the unvarnished truth on the DC foreign policy scene. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Aug Waiting to hear from Denis McDonough and @rhodes44 on how/why their former boss, Lee Hamilton, was unceremoniously booted off the PIAB ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Aug Egyptian generals shaking in their boots MT @AmbassadorPower In convening today, #UNSC sends strong msg that world is closely watching Egypt
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Aug It's time for @AmbassadorPower to start looking for a new press flack to write her inane tweets ... Hope it's not you, @erin_pelton
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein 15 Aug WH quietly dismissed bulk of Pres. intel panel, leaving it in flux as NSA surveillance storm hit htp:/politi.co/1dbm8Ow
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug Cheryl will make the fuzzy conflict of interest lines Huma blurred last year look like child's play when the details come out, I suspect. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug Hey reporters - shouldn't someone investigate how Cheryl Mills is still an employee at @statedept while she is an active gatekeeper for HRC?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug But is 37 yr old former White House Fellow/Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School graduate the biggest weapon Susan Rice/Tony Blinken could deploy?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug White House wants to rope in an ocasionally rogue John Kerry by deploying one of its own to help babysit David Wade and Heather Higginbottom
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug @lrozen A somewhat perplexing move, but more proof the Obama Administration loves its ex-journos ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug He's also on Twitter! - @jonfiner RT @lrozen: Blinken aide Jon Finer is coming to @StateDept to be Kerry's deputy chief of staff Expand
Andrew Exum @abumuqawama 14 Aug I love it when academics who take pride in their ignorance of the policy process confidently tell us how public policy is *really* made.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug @noamscheiber I suspect he will be quite happy to return to Princeton professorship. Doesn't seem to want glamour or $$$. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug My guess? The generals in Egypt right now are trying to figure out who the fuck Josh Earnest is when they're not keeled over laughing. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug Except for that one idea he pushed back in 2002. MT @RachelKleinfeld:. Here are smart suggestions from Ken Pollack:
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug Does @AmbassadorPower remember that she's not a Harvard professor anymore? Her tweets entirely divorced from her Administration's policies.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug Is it just me, or does everyone agree that @SenGillibrand have the most annoying staff on Capitol Hill?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug @nukes_of_hazard @globebender Ah, OK. Don't know Rose, but generally speaking, Senators don't have a clue who their LCs are.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Aug Leg affairs types in Obama Administration national security team thoroughly reactive and entirely mediocre. No evidence of incoming change.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Aug @GlobeBender And intern does not equal staffer.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Aug @GlobeBender Yes, but your article implied he worked for Kerry immediately prior to joining the State Department. Not the case. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Aug Why the fuck should anyone care if @ChelseaClinton is moving toward a "more purposefuly public" life? What galling presumption on her part.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Aug Is there anything sadder than a LinkedIn profile that features "Former" in your job description?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Aug 2 errors in @GlobeBender piece this AM - Bill Danvers was cashiered out as Dep Chief of Staff and Rose only interned for Kerry 20 yrs ago Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Aug Nice to see that Hillary was able to ensure Chelsea's ex got a plum spot on State Policy Planning before she left Foggy Bottom! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug Hey reporters! Need to find @rhodes44? Just look for him smoking outside the Starbucks on Penn Ave - no wonder he smells like an ashtray.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug Obama's approval rating is plunging, his 2nd term agenda struggles, yet Denis McDonough is earning kudos all around #huh? #teflonskin Expand
Timothy Noah @TimothyNoah1 11 Aug Marty Baron (@PostBaron) should get rid of "5 Myths" feature. It's tired, it usually attacks straw men, and today it sucks up to new boss.
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Neil Irwin @Neil_Irwin 11 Aug nytimes.com/2013/04/25/busrers-and- foes.html?pagewanted=al...sines/janet-l-yelen-posible-fed-sucesor-has-admi RT @cabaum1: So where's the NYT above-the-fold profile on Janet Yellen? Retweeted by NatSecWonk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Aug No mention of Cass checking out porn on his BB in background? RT @USUN: .@AmbassadorPower putting the final touches on tonight's speech
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Gregory Wilbur @gbwilbur 10 Aug Could be FP's slogan. RT @mcmoynihan: Have to be honest: didn't make it past the headline /w.ftp:thoreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/b_world_s_mandea?page=ful...l08/09/mo rsy_is_the_ara
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Angelo Carusone @GoAngelo
Last time he promised huge crowds, this happened: twitpic.com/cbjqdi RT @realDonaldTrump: Big crowd expected tomorrow night in Iowa.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Aug Morell's replacement, Avril Haines, started at CIA yesterday. John Brennan is the only person in DC who still isn't thinking, "Huh?" Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Aug Sorry @mikeallen but while Michael Morell is highly respected and uber competent, no one thinks of him as "the Bob Gates of this generation"
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Aug It's pathetic how @AmbassadorPower keeps tweeting on Syria when her own President refuses to do anything about it. You've sold out, Sam.
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Mark Knoller @markknoller 9 Aug At the same point in office, Pres. GWBush had made 50 visits to this Texas Ranch totaling all or part of 323 days.
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Mark Knoller @markknoller 9 Aug As for the numbers: since taking office, Pres Obama has taken 14 vacation trips spanning all or part of 92 days.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Aug "Mysterious" is not necessarily meant to be negative. If DC doesn't know who a key advisor is, then he/she is mysterious. That's all. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Aug I like how the @hillaryclinton Twitter profile avatar shot memorializes former StateLegal Advisor @haroldhongjukoh in all his unkempt glory! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Aug @ArifCRafiq Fair enough - either alternative also works. He's only "mysterious" in the sense that he is not well known in DC. That's all.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Aug @ArifCRafiq Rice relies on him a LOT. That's why.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Aug @donacamp And I have no idea what his views are. My peeps tell me Rice relies on him a LOT. So interesting story for enterprising journos.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Aug @donacamp Check your facts. He is a former professor/UN official. NOT a USG civil servant, but a pol aide brought on by Rice at USUN now NSC
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Aug Good piece and useful corrective to CW. RT @brooks_rosa: Women Are from Mars Too - By Rosa Brooks | Foreign Policy foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/twiter...I08/08/women_are_from_mars_to#.UgRJP xmv-c.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Aug Oh, Wes Clark, if you are going to date someone 40 years younger than you, at least try to make sure she's attractive. #wordsofadvice Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Aug @thomaswright08 Perhaps. But who is he? What is his record? What are his views?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Aug Don't forget "wife of creepy looking old guy" @AmbassadorPower U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, mother, HR defender, teacher, writer
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Aug Salman Ahmad likely to become new Senior Director for Strategic Planning for @AmbassadorRice, replacing Eliot Cohen acolyte @kellymagsamen
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Aug Reporters, here's a story tip: Profile Salman Ahmed, the mysterious consigliere of @AmbassadorRice whom she brought from her UN staff.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Aug If Michele Flournoy were a neocon, stories would be written how she packed her acolytes into cushy jobs at DoD. #confessyourunpopularopinion
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Aug Obama can be a dick to his staff and not afraid to throw them under the bus for his own self interest. #confessyourunpopularopinion Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Aug Outstanding State Department noms: Legal Advisor + A/S for Pol-Mil Affairs. How long does it take to replace Harold Koh and Andrew Shapiro?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Aug Someone should tell @amprog that Maya Soetero-Ng is only "world renown" because of who her half brother happens to be. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Aug Heather Higginbottom didn't have a easy confirmation process when put up for OMB slot. Why does Kerry think it will be different this time?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug Assuming the Bezos purchase means we don't have to read any more dreadful "interviews" by Lally Weymouth .... #nepotismatitsfinest
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug In an age of sequester, why is the @StateDept creating a brand new DAS slot in a regional bureau for a former John Kerry Senate staffer? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Aug Does @whoisbenchang email @mikeallen every time he gets a Facebook alert one of his friends is having a birthday?
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Jennifer Senior @JenSeniorNY 4 Aug I miss the days when terrorism warnings were issued only at politically expedient moments.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Aug Prescott is new Julie Smith. @jamiedupree: White House sends list of officials who met today on latest terror threat thtp:/twitpic.com/d6cw9v
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @TheOldStranger Ah, trot out the soldier card. I'm glad you served, but that doesn't make you a saint or correct.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @TheOldStranger Always nice to end a Twitter exchange with a racist tweet. Good night, you pathetic old man ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @TheOldStranger Oh my God, please stop embarassing me in front of your massive following of 113 people! #nobodygivesashitaboutyou
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @TheOldStranger I think it's time for you to get back to the porn video you were jerking off to ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @TheOldStranger I like toying with dumb idiots like you. Cheap entertainment on a Saturday evening.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug Hmm, is @RichardGrenell so stupid as to think the National Security Advisor decides whether U.S. embassies should close? Not the Sec State?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @TheOldStranger You're too stupid to get it, huh? And why would I care what a loser right wing nut job like you thinks of me? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug Hey @marieharf -- I like the big black hipster glasses you are rocking at the Foggy Bottom podium these days! A dash of edginess! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @BrookingsInst I don't need to learn more, I am just commenting on the elitist and exclusionary nature of these types of conferences. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug Former @AmbassadorRice staffer Caroline Tess on the short list for the Senate DAS slot at H? David Wade, please don't let that happen! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @John_Hudson Isn't it the goal of every self- respecting journalist to create shit storms with their work?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug Anyone else notice the irony of @BrookingsInst holding a roundtable this weekend on Global Poverty in Aspen, CO? Good grief. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug Anyone else surprised that J. Michael "Fratboy Extraordinaire" Allen was capable of reading a book, much less writing one? #hpsci Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @TheOldStranger Hey dipshit, this "conversation" has been over for over 24 hours! Are you always this slow?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Aug @TVietor08 @rhodes44 It occured before he left ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Aug Lots of grumbling about @rhodes44 inappropriately intervening at a Russia Principals Committee meeting this week. He should stick to PR.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Aug The dude with the awkward grin off to the side? Deputy Director for National Intelligence Robert Cardillo:
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Aug You know, if Phillipe had just acted on his feelings and asked out Huma five years ago, none of this mess would be happening right now ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Aug So why would someone leave a high-paying job at Facebook to become chief of staff at the Transportation Dept? Booty calls with @pfeiffer44 ?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Aug Anyone know whatever happened to Craig Mullaney? If you read his clips, you would have thought this guy was the next David Petraeus. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Aug Hey @vali_nasr - what's with flooding my timeline with a bunch of random news articles? When did you become a wire service?
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber 1 Aug Obama's pref for Summers reveals how sexism actually works these days: :/wpn.tht ewrepublic.com/article/114133o/obamas-boys-club-sumers-shows-hw-sexism- realy-works.... More subtle than it used to be, still a prob.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @michelelfrost @Matthops82 @LunaticRex @SccCollins It's been real. You all can go back to your fantasy world where we have President Romney.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @SccCollins @LunaticRex @michelelfrost @Matthops82 Thanks for proving my point. But Canadian Ted Cruz is totally legit, right?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @LunaticRex @michelelfrost @Matthops82 @SccCollins Instead of debating me on Twitter, maybe go back to finding Obama's birth certificate ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @LunaticRex @michelelfrost @Matthops82 @SccCollins I love how you clowns are still keeping this exchange going. I actually had to do work.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @michelelfrost Let me guess -- stay at home mom?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @Matthops82 And I like how you think RTing me to all of your loser right wing nutjob followers is supposedly embarassing me. Go right ahead
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @Matthops82 I thought you were offended by potty language? I'm such a loser, yet you just spent last 30 minutes in a trolling war with me!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @Matthops82 I like that you are enjoying scoring points off an anoymous Twitter account. No wonder your wife is having an affair ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @Matthops82 Whatever douchebag. By the looks of your profile photo, you haven't had a date in a few years, eh?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @Matthops82 Thanks. Time for you to go back to Red State or wherever all you loser right wing nuts hang out.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug Olivia Nuzzi can come intern for me anytime ... #justsayin
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @Matthops82 It's really nice of you come to the defense of your little friend @chiproytx Maybe the two of you can have a hug to celebrate!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @Matthops82 Are you volunteering to be my friend? If so, no thanks!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug @EricaGrieder @chiproytx Fellow Republicans seem to think so. Whatever he's doing, he should keep doing it to entertain the rest of us.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug Is this why @AmbassadorRice is trying to bring over some of her old staff to her NSC fiefdom? thtp:/bit.ly/12JB1W3
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug What's funny about the silly @marcorubio speechwriting photo is that he is notorious on the Hill for NEVER going beyond his talking points. Expand
Tommy Vietor @TVietor08 1 Aug Let's take a minute to discuss how lame it was that @marcorubio tweeted a picture of himself fake writing a speech against Sam Power's nom
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug Things are bad for State/H when their greatest achievement this year is getting on one of these silly lists: :/btpthit.ly/1cqcFT0 Expand
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Newly on Twitter, and going after LS... MT @SheilaBair2013: Summers' mysterious lack of deregulatory contrition, newyorker.com/online/blogs/jhere-lary-sumers- went-wrong-politicalyhtml....ohncasidy/2013/07/w
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jul You're underestimating Dan Shapiro and his tight White House ties .. .RT @IgnatiusPost: Kerry's big-bang diplomacy thtp:/wapo.st/1cpGao3
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jul How does Chris Nelson get away with charging $$$ for his report when half of it is just a cut and paste from @NBCFirstRead ? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jul @bcsample They apparently do, as my LinkedIn home page is filled with dozens and dozens of them for my various connections. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jul Again, people, do you really think it matters if you show on your LinkedIn profile that someone endorsed you for "International Relations"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jul Wow, I can attest from personal experience that @chiproytx is as much of a douchebag as press reports indicate. What a fucking asshole.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jul Why is a HRC holdover who has zero knowledge of Asia still ensconsed in a cushy DAS slot at EAP? It's time to clean house, Danny Russel!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jul Hey @RDKeil1 -- can we expect @mikeallen to provide us live updates from your upcoming honeymoon night for his Playbook readers?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jul Key staffers supporting MEPP effort: Lawyer Jonathan Schwartz, along with two former Kerry Senate aides: Ilan Goldenberg and Perry Cammack.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul So who at the White House is keeping tabs on Kerry and this #MEPP thing? In other words, who is the Frank Lowenstein for @AmbassadorRice ?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul Is it possible to be a CFR Term Member, a CNAS Next Generation National Security Leader and a FPI Future Leader all at the exact same time?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul So when is the Pentagon going to get around to nominating someone for Asia A/S slot Mark Lippert once held? #WhatPivot? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul Except if this thing collapses. MT @AmbassadorRice: Kerry, Indyk, the Israelis and Palestinians have my and the
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul @TVietor08 @jonfavs Appreciate response, butI think you guys come off more credible if you keep your Twitter accounts and day jobs separate.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul Come on @jonfavs and @TVietor08 - nobody believes either of you would tweet on some Alaskan bay unless #fenwaystrategies wasn't getting paid
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul @endeavoringE I suppose it is better than a line to get out!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul @vndrew_lvpton Hence my "surprised" remark. Take your rage out at @politicalwire who seems to think it is big news.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul So we know who's representing the Israeli side and the Palestinian side this week. But what about the American side? Et tu, @Martin_Indyk ?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul Let's not get carried away here - one meeting only. MT @fstockman: #JohnKerry pulled it off. Peace talks between #Israel and #Palestinians.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul Surprised? RT @politicalwire: GOP senators "are nearly united" in backing Sen. Mike Enzi over challenger Liz Cheney politicalwire.com/archives/2013/u07/28/gop_senators_raly_arond_enzi.html... Expand
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov 28 Jul Wait, Tom Friedman is not yet the mayor of Davos?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul @TVietor08 People tell me that a picture of Evan is in the dictionary next to the word "prickly".
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul @TVietor08 @rhodes44 Not exactly a vote of confidence in your Asia policy guy, huh? This NEVER would have happened with Jeff Bader around!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul @shelleyamack Sorry for that, I deleted the tweet. If you delete your tweet too, she will never see it.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul Isn't this a job for Evan Medeiros? RT @rhodes44: Heading out to Rangoon, Naypyidaw and Kuala Lumpur for meetings with governments.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul A speechwriter/PR flack is doing this? A bit inappropriate? RT @rhodes44: Heading out to Rangoon, Naypyidaw and Kuala Lumpur for meetings.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul @shelleyamack Huh?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul Only "This Town" gets into a lather over an anonymous Sunday TV show producer's last episode .... get a life, people.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul @lrozen Nides had a long business career behind him. David Wade and Higginbottom are two political aides whom John Kerry personally made.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul Is it any wonder why Bill Burns is reportedly getting tired of this shitshow at Foggy Bottom and considering retirement later this year? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul More people should be asking why John Kerry installed two former aides, both with ZERO foreign policy experience, into top posts at State.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul @lrozen I know, but that official was snowing you.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul Sorry @lrozen but many at State would disagree that a promotion of Heather Higginbottom to DepSec would be "a hit across the board". Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul Best move for VA Gov McDonnell? Dump the high maintenance wife who has a significantly higher opinion of herself than warranted. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul Always good to suck up! MT @rhodes44: Big day tomorrow: Nat. Security Advisor @AmbassadorRice is throwing out first pitch at Nats/Mets game.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul @abumuqawama Sadly, more readers of the Sunday Times will want to read this fluff piece in the Style section than the latest on Egypt.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jul Beware of crazy old men going senile ... MT @ChuckGrassley: Beware of "transnationalists" If u don't want UN to compromise our Constitution
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jul Did @Peggynoonannyc miss memo from her fellow conservatives that IRS-gate is no longer to be stoked? BTW, she once was Reagan speechwriter.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jul Has anyone told @sarahpalinusa that appearing on a cable news program on a Friday night in the dead of summer not exactly A-list material?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jul Will she ask her staff to draft tweets? RT @rhodes44 Big day tomorrow: Nat. Security Advisor @AmbassadorRice is throwing out the first pitch
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Kaitlyn Buss @KaitlynBuss 26 Jul If Huma and Hillary Were Emailing... /o:thpt n.wsj.com/15OiMvu via @WSJopinion
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jul @IgnatiusPost Any reason to think Tom Donilon would have handled differently?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jul @catfitz Of course it is. And it's my right to mock her as I please.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jul @catfitz @davidplouffe took their blood money to give a speech.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jul @catfitz Of course he is. But so is Liz.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jul Time to change your lame looking profile pic, @davidplouffe How about an action shot of you giving a speech to adoring Kazakh autocrats?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jul @PeterJBX Fully agree!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jul What's everyone's favorite Politico menage a trois? @JimVandeHei and @HarrisPolitico grinding it old school, with @mikeallen in from behind!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jul RT @ianbremmer: John Kerry & The Pivot
6 Trips to the Middle East
1 to East Asia
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jul Isn't it "affects"? MT @RachelKleinfeld: Aid barely effects poverty. But migration - there's where we lift people into better lives. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jul Hey @cesarconda and @jamiemfly -if @marcorubio can only convince one other Senator to vote no on Sam Power nomination, how will he win Iowa?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jul @ClintSharpe Apples and oranges, my friend. Anthony Wiener is no Bill Clinton in terms of accomplishments or political legacy ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jul Enough with the "Huma should run for mayor" BS. She is willingly endorsing and legitimizing this human joke. She owns all of this too. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jul We get it, @noamscheiber - you wrote a good piece on the demise of Big Law. I liked it too, but enough with the RTs of praise! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jul Guessing @mikeallen is obsessed with @fivethirtynate contract saga because he egotistically thinks he can play the same bidding game one day
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul Anyone else get the sense that the White House really could care less whether John Kerry succeeds at his Israel-Palestine peace effort? Expand
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom 21 Jul BREAKING: Martin Indyk said to be U.S. representative on Israeli- Palestinian peace talks h/b/:pt it.ly/19bPEnb
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul And 5 whole people could give a shit about this. RT @brianstelter: .@MikeAllen has many new details about Disney's hiring of Nate Silver:
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul @RobertZarateDC BTW spamming anyone you ever met whenever you write something irritates the hell out of everyone, so you may
want to stop.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul @RobertZarateDC You think I'm angry? Calling someone who disagrees with you on a policy question an ally of Iran is a pathetic low blow ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul The reaction to Helen Thomas's death reminds me that there is nothing more journalists find fascinating than other journalists. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul Hey reporters, here's a good story tip: if Liz Cheney moved to #GodsCountry last year, what is her husband still doing at a DC law firm?
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Neil King @NKingofDC 21 Jul Forget stars, or the ocean's tides. Nothing affirms eternity like the continued existence of the McLaughlin Group.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul And, by implication, Cheney a showhorse @davidmwessel: RT @NKingofDC McCain endorses Enzi over Cheney calling him "a good solid work horse."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul The DC scene is full of such examples. RT @TimothyNoah1: .@MilesCorak: The 1 percent is rife with nepotism. pht:/nyti.ms/13t3KMM
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul Hey @MarkLeibovich - what's with the constant retweets of mentions of your book? I think it has already gotten more than enough publicity!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jul @kirstenpowers10 If only @scottbrownma knew how to properly type Twitter handles ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Jul Excellent commentary on how the confirmation process has become a joke: htp:/bit.ly/116zN4b
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Timothy Noah @TimothyNoah1 20 Jul So, if Kerry gets Mideast talks going so early in his tenure, doesn't that make Hillary look bad? Just sayin'... nytimes.com/2013/07/20/worextends-stay-in-mideast-to-push-for- alks.html?hp&_r=0...tld/midleast/kery-
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Jul @carr2n @fivethirtyeight What exactly does "suppity" mean?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Jul Why does @mikeallen keep telling everyone to discuss this or that "with your kids" when he doesn't have any children?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jul Please not Frank Lowenstein ... MT @nicolegaouette: Who he'll appoint to do the day to day work on negotiations -- he has someone in mind
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jul @SeanHarder Yet you spend your time responding to an anonymous Twitter account. #Iwonderwhy
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jul @SeanHarder You must think that I care what a PR flack working at a do-gooder foundation thinks of me.
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Lauren Jenkins @laurenist 19 Jul VA spending $3 million on Facebook ads is another reason why I'm missing Jon Stewart at the moment. /w.n:pthextgov.com/cio-briefing/2treach-project-spend-1-milion-facebok-ads- year/6974/...-013/07/veteransou
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jul @SeanHarder Excuse me, but who are you? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jul @blakehounshell I'm calling shit like it is. If you are a Liz Cheney fan and have a problem with it, you're welcome to unfollow.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jul I'm dying to call out Liz Cheney for the overweight fat pig that she is. But then I remember that Mike Enzi weighs even more. #fail
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jul @TVietor08 At same time, let's not casually toss out the racist card like it's a Happy Meal. One can be crude and hateful w/o being racist.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jul @TVietor08 I think its more intended to evoke a very scary man -- you know, what the right wingers have been saying since 01/20/2009.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jul @TVietor08 When a white person puts on a blackface, that is racist. I don't know if depicting a black man with a whiteface is equivalent.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jul @TVietor08 Tasteless and crude, but how is it racist?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jul @TJinDC Don't take shit from @RobertZarateDC - thinks he's hot shit because he worked for that legendary House Member @jefffortenberry #who?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jul Please clarify - is this a "Washington friend" or a real friend? RT @AmbShapiro: Proud of my friend Samantha Power. thtp:/fb.me/WujUZxcs
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jul @DefenseBaron @defenseone I liked the puffy profile piece on Mark Lippert. Always good to butter up future sources!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jul Anyone know how I can donate some money to @SenatorEnzi
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David Corn @DavidCornDC 16 Jul Liz Cheney for Senate slogan: Not the Dick You Know, But Close.
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Timothy Noah @TimothyNoah1 16 Jul Psst, Mike Enzi: Liz Cheney's VERY EXISTENCE (i.e., her conception) was ploy by Dick to dodge the Vietnam War. slate.com/articles/news_terbox/204/03/elizabeth_cheney_deferment_baby.html...t and_politics/cha
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jul The real crime of this Bachmann LD arrested today? He's 37 years old. What the fuck is he still doing as a House office LD at that age? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jul @CrowleyTIME Huh, who is Westerberg and Stinson? You linked to a Hill article on potential DHS replacements ...
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Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush 14 Jul Me: Any violence in Florida overnight? Wife: You mean any kids shot for holding a candy bar?
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Fred Wellman @FPWellman 13 Jul Lets stop calling Greenwald a "journalist". He's Snowden's personal advocate. Period. /h:ptht.ly/1Zb1Td
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing 13 Jul Here's your dumb, oversized CNN headline of the day. pic.twitter.com/TJDPpZWG9n
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jul @GlennThrush Aha, got it.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jul @GlennThrush I don't agree with views expressed by @davidsirota here, but surprised that you a political reporter don't know who he is???
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jul One good thing about Napolitano departure? Say goodbye to the Arizona mafia that she brought with her to Nebraska Avenue headquarters.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jul An open secret at DHS over past 4 years was the tension between Napolitano and Lute. Will make it awkward if Lute picked to succeed her.
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Jeff Stein @SpyTalker 11 Jul Eric Prince's ghostwriter threatens suit against the former big-time private security contractor for screwing him... thtp:/fb.me/Jkr7dsEG
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Matt Yglesias @mattyglesias 11 Jul Small government conservatism — $195 billion in farm subsidies, $0 to feed poor people.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jul Hey Jason Forrester, you became a DAS, you didn't get sworn in as President. What's with the over the top ceremony and preview to @glubold ?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jul Kudos to @mikeallen for breaking the Evan Ryan nomination two days after it was announced! Great example of @politico high energy metabolism
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jul My bad, I understand @zvikakrieger was hired as a speechwriter, not policy advisor, for Ash Carter. Perfectly respectable spot for a journo Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jul @DaveMc99TA I have no sympathy for people who are paid a decent wage and can't e bothered to do prudential financial planning. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jul @Tim_Morrison Is it any wonder why everyone I know on Capitol Hill thinks you are a major prick?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jul @DaveMc99TA That is an accurate statistic, but no federal employee falls into that category. The feds don't pay poverty wages.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jul Only @mikeallen thinks some spoon-fed talking points from @jrpsaki and @marieharf on Kerry's "leadership" counts as some type of scoop.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jul Hey @RDKeil1 - no one gives a shit about how you negotiated your new job or the mundane details of your second marriage, so please STFU.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jul @PeterJBX Agree it's a great move, but how poor Russ has fallen. This is the type of job that goes to an ex-Senate staffer, not ex Member.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jul @CNSWolfsthal Do tell about some of those disagreements!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jul It's far worse if you lose your entire job when you are laid off. Losing 20% of your pay for short period of time sucks, but is manageable. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jul But spare me these sob stories about federal employees unable to pay their bills b/c of a 20% pay cut. Really, you haven't saved any $$$?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jul So the sequester sucks. And DoD employees having to give up 20% of their salary for three months sucks too. All of that is valid. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jul I got an email today from the @trumanproject asking if too many of their emails are annoying. The answer is yes.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jul Danny Russell confirmed tonight by Senate as new A/S for EAP.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jul So I guess the new thing in the Obama White House is to give Ambassadorships to random countries in Africa to senior political aides #really
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Heather Hurlburt @natsecHeather
#protip When someone says, "let's be very clear about what's happening in Syria" he means, "I'm about to say something very tendentious."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul RT @AthertonKD: Hey @MaxBoot I made this handy reference of calls you made in 2012 for more use of military force docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pu1IUFE5YXQ5VHVfb3ZGZHFRNVE&single=truegid= 0&output=html...&b?key=0Armn04XuMkEsdHI5VE
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul Is it just me or does the Twitter account for @davidplouffe highlight how much of a prick he is?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul When did the Pentagon start hiring journalists for policy positions? RE bit.ly/1aU5seS
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul BTW, it's a statutory requirement that the A/S for ECA must be either a woman or a gay man.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul Biden aide Evan Ryan nominated today for State A/S for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Should note that her husband is DNSA Tony Blinken.
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Eli Lake @EliLake 8 Jul If I was the social media adviser for @RichardHaass I would name the personal blog "Haass Style" In your face real talk from a realist.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul @Diplopundit @Doctrine_Man Burns is respected and continues to work his own priorities, but not sure if he counts as a Kerry confidante.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jul @Doctrine_Man @Diplopundit Scary to say, but it's David Wade and Heather Higginbottom. Neither of whom know anything about foreign policy.
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Micah Zenko @MicahZenko 7 Jul Hard to take DC pundits + politicians serious about how US can transform governance in Egypt, when its so dysfunctional in DC. Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jul @armscontrolnow Fair enough.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jul Someone should tell @politicalwire that it is Cheney's daughter, Liz, not his wife, Lynne, who is considering a WY SEN run next year. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jul Calling bullshit: Liz Cheney can't say that she has moved her family to WY when lobbyist husband still works in DC. :/bhtpt it.ly/1d5XCLH Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jul @armscontrolnow When did an arms control NGO suddenly develop expertise on surveillance law?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jul It's fair to say the Obama Administration will be glad to see @AmbassadorOren leave -- he was particularly untrusted.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jul @Polioptics Actually, it's more a commentary on how DC never changes, and the Obama folks weren't immune to its seduction.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jul @jasondouglas86 Both, actually.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jul Only @richardhaass thinks his bland, trite, and uttrly conventional thoughts on foreign policy make for devastating insights... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jul @Polioptics Doesn't compute. Where in @milbank column does he compare Obama and Clinton?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jul But you know what people? It's 2013. There's things called secure phones that allow people to do their jobs outside the office. #getoverit Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jul Foggy Bottom stupid to lie about Kerry's whereabouts this week (what's up with that @jrpsaki and @marieharf ), but who really cares? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jul @Cirincione You should ask your personal hero, Chuck Hagel. He's in charge of the program now.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jul Slightly pathetic how @politicalwire is flogging Uber these days. He presumably is getting a commission.
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Jon Williams @WilliamsJon
Obama & NSC meet at White House on #Egypt. #4thofJuly in Situation Room: shirt sleeves but no hotdogs pic.twitter.com/X8vrQrXNsV
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul @blakehounshell Agree, but she's in the field, not at Foggy Bottom.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul @chrisargyris That's not unusual, as Bill is senior to Beth and would have first dibs on subbing for Kerry at a Principals Meeting.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul With an acting NEA Assistant Secretary (who is tainted by Benghazi fallout) who is driving policy towards Egypt at Foggy Bottom? Bill Burns?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul @Peteprivate Thanks, stupid. Where did I write the word "abortion" in my previous tweet? Go back to jerking off in your mom's basement.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul Loving the tidbits in @MarkLeibovich new book, but his constant retweets of praise for himself a trademark element of #ThisTown mores ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul Someone should investigate @darrellissa for flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars for putting disgraced douchebag K. Bardella on House payroll.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul Doesn't the illustration here seem to imply that Kurt Bardella and @DarrellIssa are engaged in unnatural relations? htp:/nyti.ms/1aGuk9U
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul Now that @usambnato is no longer the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, what's he still doing tweeting from this account? Ivo, get off the lawn! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul Smart piece here: thtp:/atfp.co/14UoivP Kerry could start by getting rid of HRC crony installed as EAP DAS in her last days as Secretary.
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Gregory Wilbur @gbwilbur 4 Jul Why in the world would we--oh, coup. RT @ForeignPolicy: Why you shouldn't use the 'c' word when talking about #Egypt atfp.co/17UmPMa
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Mark Leibovich @MarkLeibovich 4 Jul FYI: e-mail has arrived from Lanny Davis, noting (fearing?) exclusion from #ThisTown. I apologize for this oversight. Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul Did anyone at the White House seriously think this type of drivel would convince anyone that Valerie Jarrett actually does anything there?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul So will @jsmith44 include her "33 Talking Points on Awesomeness of Valerie Jarrett" on her CV after she leaves the White House? #justasking
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul When was the last time you read a tough piece on GOP Members of Congress and their policies from @EliLake and @joshrogin ? Yeah, me neither.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul On some beach in Rhode Island, Tom Donilon sheds a tear RT @petesouza: Photo from the President's Sit Room mtg today: bit.ly/12GVIj8
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul Can't wait for This Town from @MarkLeibovich -- if only for the unmasking of @mikeallen as the utterly shallow suckup that he is.... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul @lrozen Where's the love for Eric Holder and John Brennan?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul @BFriedmanDC I will tweet you an entire list after I recover from my planned Independence Day hangover.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul @BFriedmanDC One of the co-founders, Matt Spence, fits squarely into that category.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman 3 Jul In one corner, Samantha Power. In the other, frothing fools and fanatics. :/ctpths.pn/11hAv0I
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul @BFriedmanDC Most are pretentious suck-ups who could care less about the Truman "ideals" and see it for what it is: a DC networking circuit
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul Not many would have predicted 4 years ago that @davidplouffe would shill for Azerbaijani dictators for some extra spending money, but hey..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul @BFriedmanDC Many of those clowns happen to belong to the very Truman Fellows Group you so proudly boast in your Twitter self description.
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John Hudson @John_Hudson 2 Jul Hey Egypt, the 90s called, it wants its laser pointers back
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jul Has there ever been a Cabinet Officer with such a glorious mane of hair as @ernestmoniz ?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jul Does every tweet by @DafnaLinzer have to relate to her boyfriend/comrade/life partner @bartongellman ?
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Sommer Mathis @sommermathis 2 Jul Mix of sympathy & shame for Aspen airport employees who are good natured enough to ask, over and over, if we had any good "ideas" while here
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jul Here's the bottom line: @wikileaks can go fuck themselves.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jul Based on her avatar, looks like conservative wannabie @mkhammer is auditioning for the role of Cher on the 2013 edition of The Love Boat.
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Lauren Jenkins @laurenist
RT @dandrezner: Does a consistent rationale exist for why @SenJohnMcCain and @GrahamBlog think Susan Rice's sins are worse than Clapper's?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul @PeasantParty Your naivete is touching. Snowden has no political agenda beyond his self-glorification. Sheep like you should stop following
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul Can't we round up a group of patriotic Americans to fly to Moscow, head for the transit lounge, and beat the fucking shit out of Snowden? Expand
David Shorr @David_Shorr 1 Jul Most impressive thing about Snowden: I'd have to say the humility
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul Wait, national security whiz kid John Nagl and former @cnasdc honcho is now headmaster of a snooty boarding school? WHAT THE FUCK, PEOPLE?
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Father Dale @chainofmeat 30 Jun I have four 24 hour news channels on my TV. Why do I have to be on Twitter to find out anything about #Egypt?
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Juan Cole @jricole 30 Jun Hell just froze: Brazilians r protesting soccer, Egyptians r protesting Islamic government, & Turks r protesting mistreatment of Kurds Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun It would be really interesting if @Peggynoonannyc talked more about her time working for President Reagan. She never really mentions it ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun @glubold Don't know, but for those who know her, it was amusing, to say the least,
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun Admit it, we all laughed at the @glubold headline the other day on the "Validation of Evelyn Farkas". Umm, no.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun One of them fancies himself a real Mack Daddy! @SaraSorcherNJ: 5 staffers to watch on House #Intelligence Committee nationaljournal.com/daily/5-staffeomite-20130630...ers-to-watch-on-the-house- inteligence-c
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun Today, per @john_hudson , marks the final day of the Tom Donilon regime at the NSC. The Susan Rice era begins tomorrow. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun Please @rhodes44 -- don't crowd my Twitter feed this afternoon with your pointless and inane live-tweeting of the POTUS speech.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun Hey folks, if you need to know who's a real Iranian American, @EliLake is your go-to guy! This is why he's a joke. /bt:hpt it.ly/14Gpym8 Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun Nice to see that one of the biggest assbag douches on Capitol Hill has now started following me.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jun What does that make Hoss Cartwright? RT @TVietor08: Being a whistleblower means exposing misconduct or illegal activity. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jun But lots of quality time with Frank Lowenstein! MT @StephenWalt: If Kerry keeps flying to ME, he's wasting his time and lotsa jet fuel. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jun Kudos to @AmbassadorRice for making wise choice and not hiring a necon from the Bush Pentagon for key hire. Job went to one of my followers.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jun Gaspard no less qualified than big money donors who also get such slots but remember Obama pledge to name qualified diplomats to these jobs?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jun So when did Ambassador become the next career step for a White House Political Director? Odd move for Patrick Gaspard, no? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jun @rajivwashpost News flash, Rajiv, but the entire US government is taking that approach to the leaked documents. Not just the military.
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran @rajivwashpost 27 Jun Yo CNN, lots of news out there. Snowden. Immig. DOMA. Mandela. Can't u show something other than the $%&*! Zimmerman trial?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jun So what happened to Rand Beers getting promoted to the DHS DepSec slot? #nothappening Will John Kerry steal back his 2004 nat sec aide?
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Nukes of Hazard @nukes_of_hazard 27 Jun +1 MT @paulmcleary: wow RT @allisonkilkenny: Ex-US general under investigation for leaks ha/:pt.wljazeera.com/news/americas/t2013/06/2013628062060213.html?utm_co
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jun Is it just me, or is @GlennThrush unusually thin skinned on Twitter right now?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jun @David_Shorr Pat Cronin? No. Someone fairly anonymous, yet still an important position.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jun I sometime wonder if the Twitter feed of @sallyquinndc is a parody account. This woman has no self awareness on how DC views her and family
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jun @gbwilbur Yeah, dude, that just ain't funny. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jun @Diplopundit I can't be the only person who initially thought @DarrellIssa was a parody account, right?
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Jonathan Weisman @jonathanweisman 24 Jun Entire IRS "scandal" brought into question by new docs. There was no rhyme or reason to scrutiny, no real political targeting of rt or left
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jun @davidplouffe Ah, but the Azerbaijiani CW is something else altogether ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jun @PeterJBX @John_Hudson No. He already has secured a sinecure at the State Department NEA bureau.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jun Hey @AmbassadorRice - your potential new hire at the NSC was strong supporter of the Iraq war and opposed the U.S. pullout in 2010! #really
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jun @TVietor08 Dude, Richard Clarke was THIS close to being one of your colleagues on the Obama NSC staff. Some respect to a pioneer, please.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jun @John_Hudson Now I can't do your reporting for you, silly! Go do some old fashioned reporting.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jun Why is @AmbassadorRice about to make a former Bush political appointee and former College Republican her first major hire at the NSC? @usun
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jun @WideAsleepNima So how would you know if someone blocked you if you don't follow him?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jun When you are a traitor on the run. RT @pierre: Mr. President, look in the mirror: when did America become a country to seek asylum from? Expand
Hayden Wright @HaydoAtHome 23 Jun I think the least believable thing about Superman as a character is his steady job in print media
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Tommy Vietor @TVietor08 23 Jun Wonder if @marcorubio will comment on the Rolling Stone story about Miami disappearing bc of climate change /g:pthoo.gl/xB9cP
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jun @EliLake So Cheney should also then apologize to Obama for describing his policies as leading to America's demise? #justsayin View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jun Are Favs and Vietor auditioning for the Miami Vice sequel? RT @emhblack: Classic dinner with @fenwaystrategies pic.twitter.com/uHyP6NM9y2
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jun Sure, if you don't care about getting a job afterwards. RT @politicalwire: You can get your MPA from UNC via this online program.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jun Why does @thisweekabc think @dansenor is a foreign policy expert for tomorrow's show? He's nothing more than a glib, ass- kissing PR flack.
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Timothy Noah @TimothyNoah1 22 Jun What kind of place is DC these days? It's a place where the top Senate Republican calls Norm Ornstein--NORM ORNSTEIN!--a "far- left guy."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jun Am told that Bill Danvers has been named the sherpa for Samantha Power's upcoming confirmation for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jun @Gadams1941 Flees? Or fleeces?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jun Only @mikeallen is so egotistical to think that people care about him and random white frat guys in their 40s reminiscing about college days
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jun But everyone in DC does it! MT @AdamMinter:
Enjoy XXX twitter acct, but would love it much more if he'd stop re-tweeting praise sent his way
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Jun A comedian now? MT @PJCrowley: If #EdwardSnowden seeks asylum from #Ecuador, #Quito will equip all of its diplomatic posts with a whine bar.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jun An odd choice, to say the least. Couldn't Kerry find someone who worked for him in his Senate office to take this gig?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jun Hearing that Julia Frifield, the Chief of Staff for @senatorbarb is in line to be Kerry's pick for his Leg Affairs Assistant Secretary slot.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jun Someone should tell @peterbakernyt that the Senate remains in Democratic hands as of today, last time I checked.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jun OMG @mikeallen - was a television news anchor who lives in NYC actually spotted on a sidewalk in same said city with his wife? Huge scoop!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell 17 Jun The three highest paid officials on the Pentagon budget? The football coachesatArmy,NavyandAirForce.cw./:pth/hicagolife.net/content/politiocs/Celebr ate_the_4th_f_July...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jun @greenythebeast "fiction writer" less than a decade ago. If this was the W Presidency, liberals would be in full howl over such junior aide
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jun @greenythebeast It's not so much about him as the incredible level of responsibility that has been placed on someone who was a (1/2)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jun Such that senior policy officials, Senior Directors and higher ranking officials, are not allowed to speak to press in deference to Rhodes. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jun Striking how much this White House relies on PR flack and foreign policy novice @rhodes44 to describe Obama foreign policy. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jun Emmett Belliveau, the new White House Military Office Director, is solid. It's not his fault people think he looks like he's 12

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jun @PeasantParty She is John Brennan's replacement at the White House as Homeland Security Advisor and queen of drones.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jun If I were @slaughteram I would sue the person who convinced me to pose in a silly hat for Saturday's Wall Street Journal.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jun I know everyone in DC and have never heard of this guy: bit.ly/12Pzuyi
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jun It happens more than we like to admit! RT @RexBrynen: it would be fun if govt officials went into meetings with no intel on the other side Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jun Hey journos, Members of Congress RARELY attend classified briefings on any issue. Too much work, too boring, and no media there to see you!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun I try to do my best. RT @leftleaningec: The way @NatSecW ge s de @E i e’s s i is w f . We d e, my f ie d. Expand
Nima Shirazi @WideAsleepNima 15 Jun Remember, with the snap of his fingers, Iranian president can carry out 2nd Holocaust. Wait, what? Oh, I mean, the president has no power.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun @David_Shorr Very astute, my friend! View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun @amratner One of @EliLake Daily Beast colleagues had a HUGE expose that new CIA Dep Director once owned bookstore with erotic section. #OMFG
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun @EliLake It's amusing that you think I work for the USG, since my bio more or less hints at a think tank. You may have once called me.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun @EliLake Oh, bald one, if only the grand purpose of my days were to amuse you. Any more exposes on bookstores owned by Obama appointees?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun @EliLake Funny, there are some Americans who say that. Ever heard of Pat Buchanan?

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun Hey @EliLake - will all the neocons who kept pointing to Ahmadinejad statements on Holocaust now shut up because he's not in office?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun Hearing that @peterbakernyt working on major retrospective on Obama foreign policy and transition from 1st to 2nd term for tomorrow's paper.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun Ouch! MT @WideAsleepNima: .@MaloneySuzanne My reading comprehension is solid. I just don't keep up-to-date with Saban Center claptrap.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun That was huge break that propelled his career. RT @byoungsmith: Remember, tony blinken was a @tnr reporter-researcher on.wsj.com/19C52Jq
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jun They were all at their weekly Lean In group session MT @ska_kongshan: none of these China panels in DC have included any women @CNASdc @CSIS
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jun Re Caroline Atkinson replacing Mike Froman at the White House -- they couldn't do better than a longtime IMF public relations bureaucrat?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jun What Romney was saying on our Election Day ... RT @87films: Source in Rouhani campaign says his vote tally is at 54%, indicating no run off.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jun Don't be coy, it's your husband Ray: RT @MaloneySuzanne:what #Iran vote drama has come to, fellow analyst in my backyard trading theories
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Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman 14 Jun I've got a little insight into how this White House chemical weapons declaration was made. Stand by for a scooplet. Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
Holden D. Cat @HoldenDCat 13 Jun Too much of the English language has been militarized. #Hunger is now #FoodInsecurity. It's like people think al Qaeda's after their waffles
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jun Looks like @Peggynoonannyc forgot to take her meds this afternoon ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jun @CrowleyTIME Especially when you're tweeting about it ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jun Newsflash to @mikeallen -- you take too many cheap shots at the paper that made you, you're going to get your shitty ass whipped. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jun Kudos to @jasondhorowitz for the subtle, but unmistakeable, dig at @mikeallen in today's Post and his "user-driven tipsheet", aka Playbook.
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Holly Dagres @PoliticallyAff 13 Jun It's ironic when you realize that 150 lives affected by chemical weapons caused the "red line" to be drawn when 93,000+ are dead #Syria
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jun Embarrassing that the Obama White House, in announcing key foreign policy decision, leaves it to vapid flack @rhodes44 to release statement.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun @markondefense Employees of contractors are free to donate. Only if you have ownership stakes does the prohibition apply ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun @CNSWolfsthal @ArmsControlWonk I have very good sources. I'm like the NSA!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun Right or wrong, there is going to be some serious tongue wagging on this article:/oth:pn.wsj.com/173ITDG
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun Prediction: Brian McKeon, current NSC chief of staff and Biden alum, likely to replace Avril Haines as nominee for State Dept Legal Advisor Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun Someone may want to inform John Bellinger that the CIA Deputy Director position does not require confirmation .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun If John Brennan liked her so much, he culd have always named Haines as his General Counsel. A mystifying pick for so many reasons. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun So let's get this straight - someone with no management experience and no IC experience is going to be the #2 official at the CIA?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun All of DC is Googling Avril Haines to find out who the hell she is ..... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun Reporters should ask George Little what credentials Elena Broitman has to hold this position and whether she was best qualified candidate.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun This appointment is nothing more than a peace offering and attempt to curry favor from the Pentagon to its chief critic on sexual harassment
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun The appointment of a long time Gillibrand staffer with zero defense credentials to a senior Pentagon position is DC at its worst. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jun @tait1986 @CNASdc Nope. Think geeks.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jun The number of people who think @hillaryclinton personally writes her own tweets makes me weep for the future of American democracy. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jun If you're looking for a high concentration of pasty faced, nerdy white geeks, you're in luck: the annual @cnasdc conference is tomorrow! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jun Over/under on how many cringe worthy remarks Les makes? MT @natsecHeather: Getting ready for @natsecnet dinner for founding chair Les Gelb.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jun So why did NBC News refuse to publish Howard Gutman's name in his denial statement? Gutman released the statement of his own volition.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jun RT @daveweigel: "I welcome this public debate" is code for "Damn it, you caught me."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jun Why is @joshrogin flooding my overnight Twitter feed with posts on a useless conference no one has heard of? #ifitaintwehrkundeIdontcare Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun So he's getting some tonight? RT @DafnaLinzer: On @maddow now, why national security reporters matter, especially this one: @bartongellman
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun @John_Hudson I enjoy snarking on folks, but I also dole out credit when credit is due.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun Good scoop by @john_hudson today. At a certain point, isn't it time for Pat Kennedy to call it a day and just retire? Good God. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun Today is another day journos are enjoying mutual orgasms congratulating one another on new jobs. News flash: the rest of us don't care!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun @nicolegaouette Sounds like a good story for you to write! Remember, this White House is all about central control over foreign policy.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun Based on what I can tell, Baer's principal qualifications are 1) He got to know Chelsea Clinton as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford; 2) He's gay
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun Who the hell is Dan Baer and what makes him qualified to be Ambassador to the OSCE when he just turned 30 a short while ago? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun Lots of frustration at EAP at being shut out of Obama-Xi summit.
Only John Kerry allowed to participate and that required some negotiation.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun @brooks_rosa @sbg1 @blakehounshell @ForeignPolicy @NoahShachtman Yeah but word on street is @PeterScoblic trying to work again for Sec Kerry
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun @MikeRobbinsUSA Before you start commenting on others' intelligence, maybe you can figure out the correct spelling of "foul". #dumbass
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun @MikeRobbinsUSA Huh? What the fuck does that have to do with the NSA whistleblower scandal? Please crawl back into your cave.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun Kurt Campbell's Asia Group and Phillipe Reines will soon be sharing same office building in DC. One place big enough for those massive egos?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun @ArmsControlWonk There are some people I know who base their career plans off this approach, so don't knock it!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun @ArmsControlWonk But you're huge on the Twitters!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun @greenythebeast By your thesis, Rob Nabors should be in line to sleep with his very hot young assistant a few years from now. View conversation
Mark Leibovich @MarkLeibovich 9 Jun Sunday shows are like ID lanyards and BlackBerries. While much of U.S. has lost interest, they hold a big sway in DC. /htp:/nyti.ms/1biNNcC
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun @ArmsControlWonk No offense, but I doubt Obama cares that you didn't vote for him.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun @greenythebeast Yes, he is, but not involved in foreign policy.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun He's a talented guy, but curious what Rob Nabors was doing at the table for the Obama-Xi talks this weekend?
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Jeffrey Carr @jeffreycarr 9 Jun For those of you wondering how a 29 yr old was earning $200K/yr, imagine what Booz Allen was billing him out for.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun The interesting detail on presence of Angler in hotel room indicates Snowden a likely source for @bartongellman too h/b:pt it.ly/12zJPy4
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Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 9 Jun Dear NYT: no matter how often you call us "British site," it won't stop being factually false. Rise up above those petty resentments.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun Wondering if liberals' admiration for Edward Snowden will be outweighed by outrage that a contractor -- him -- was making $200,000 a year.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun @SCClemons Steve, just DM me.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun Doubt any of those ppl on Twitter RT @SCClemons: Still Seeking attendees at Intel & National Security Assn dinner Friday eve
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun Playbook fact of life: Although @mikeallen thnks he invented the word "playbook", he is pathetically mistaken, as he is with most things.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun Once again @mikeallen shows his complete lack of class and grace with another dig at his former employer who gave him his first career break
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jun @DLeonhardt I can guarantee you that Franken has been invited.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jun If you're wondering where the NSC Senior Director for Asia is in photos from Sunnylands, don't wait too long -- he's not exactly photogenic.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jun Wonder if that will provide any clues on how Rice plans to staff up her NSC team.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jun Susan Rice surprised many by picking a former Hagel aide with no ties to Dem foreign policy establishment as her USUN deputy. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jun @NickKristof @FredKempe I suspect Michelle really doesn't care.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jun So how does a journalist send kid to elite private school? RT @sullivank: Kate Sullivan, Sidwell Friends Class of 2013, with proud family.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jun Props to @jasonfurman for following me even after I took a snide dig at his expense. You have an impressive career and a bright future ahead
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun @WillieGeist Willie - enough with the fucking retweets!
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Alan Jacobs @ayjay 6 Jun There's an inverse relationship between the outrage a practice creates in my Twitter feed & concern about it in the general American public.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun @marcambinder Having previously served in government, I know.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun @marcambinder Yes, you can if you are allowed to read the document without an IC minder hovering over your shoulder. Happens all the time.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun @marcambinder Umm, it's nothing more complex than printing it out, stuffing it in your briefcase, copying it at Kinko's and emailing it out. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun Nice to see The Cable and @john_hudson become a PR flack for the latest hiring by the Podesta Group. Nobody has ever heard of Bay Fang.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun As her sometime partner, sometime rival Power gets a big promotion, IO's Esther Brimmer quietly announces she is joining the GWU faculty.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun Mitt Romney may pan the Rice pick for NSC Advisor, but reports indicate he was ready to name PR bozo @dansenor as his NSC pick if elected.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun Note to @glennthrush - Susan Rice was a NSC staffer when the Rwanda crisis unfolded, not on the "Africa desk" at the State Department.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun @NeilBhatiya Yep.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun FYI journalists - Sam Power never worked for then Senator Obama. She served a one year Council on Foreign Relations fellowship in his office
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun Where does the @wsj Editorial Board get the idea that Tom Donilon is an HRC loyalist? Both Donilon and Clinton would be surprised to hear.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun Hey @casssunstein - U R married to a much more attractive woman than U - 20 yrs younger - and U can't show up for her big job announcement?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun You know what's laughable? That a little piece of worthless shit like @keithurbahn thinks he has any standing to call out Samantha Power. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun What's obscene is how you turned into major money grubber? RT @algore:Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun @thedesertgate More to the point, I could give a shit what a doofus decked out like he's some modern-day Lawrence of Arabia thinks.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun @thedesertgate Clearly, a random Tweeter like you has the standing and respect to make a sweeping judgment like that ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun That John Kerry, a former nominee for President, will meekly take back seat to Susan Rice, who is viewed primarily as a stafffer, is absurd.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun Interesting factoid: Power was being vetted for U/S for Global Crap Issues at State, the positon held by Maria Otero. So why switch to USUN?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun Prediction: Innumerable stories will be written in coming days on how Sam Power is following in footsteps of her mentor and hero, Holbrooke
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun What's with the dominatrix-like black suit Susan Rice is wearing at this announcement? Donilon looking as personally awkward as ever. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun Maybe @djrothkopf can fill in the rest of us on how the White House persuaded him to do puff piece on Donilon in advance of his resignation.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun Everyone in DC wants to know what will happen to his "brusque young aide" when Tom Donilon leaves the White House next month. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun @spongedocks But neither of them will be in DC soon - Cass already in Boston and Sam to NYC.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jun @John_Hudson Just observing that she appears to be a maestro in drawing attention to herself everytime she changes jobs.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jun Also probably doesn't help John Kerry that his big thinker on Middle East Peace Process issues is chain smoker Frank Lowenstein. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jun Interesting quote on Kerry in this @lrozen piece -- hearing that Burns and Sherman share in this frustration at a boss who goes rogue often. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jun Note to The Cable and @john_hudson -- nobody in or out of State really cares about their "Chief Economist" or her self promotion campaign.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jun Nice to see @jonfavs and @davidplouffe engaging in a mutual jerkoff session this evening as they take a trip down nostalgia avenue all alone
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jun Expect to hear Vandehei and Harris crow on and on about the fact their newest hire is a WOMAN - because ... oh you know why. #rampantsexism
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jun Ok, so I know @peterbakernyt is married to @sbg1 but that doesn't mean he has to retweet 20 tweets on her change of employment. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jun Huh??? RT @peterbakernyt: Chk ur gmail Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jun @S_Dockery @Diplopundit Because @joshrogin has relied on @SenJohnMcCain as a primary source going back to his early days writing The Cable.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jun @emptywheel Nobody outside DC has a fucking clue who Lanny Breuer is. John Kerry was this close to being President and is now SecState.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jun Odd that John Kerry is never asked about John Kirikaou. After all, Kirkikaou worked for him on his Foreign Relations Committee staff. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jun Amusing how journos are obssessed by this issue RT @DafnaLinzer: Great piece on Obama and leaks all starting with Manning by @MeredithLClark
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 May So @TVietor08 can work for whomever he wants, but should he use his Twitter feed as advertising vehicle for his clients without disclosure?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 May More and more grumbling about Jim Miller and inability to live up to the legend of St. Michelle at OSD Policy -- Lippert move was telling. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 May @brooks_rosa It comes off as less egotistical. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 May Did Mikey have one too many cocktails at happy hour this evening? Maybe he'll get lucky with Vandehei tonight! RT @mikeallen: Raffel owe
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Philip Gourevitch @PGourevitch 30 May bingo RT @RyanLizza: "Officials can be punished for unauthorized contact with journalists." - State Dept. 2012 human rights report on China.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 May Kurt Campbell and "The Asia Group" had their coming out party last night at the Georgetown Westin - as usual, old Kurt was life of the party
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 May Bar Pompous - where CFR Term Members and Truman fellows gather to network, climb the career ladder and act like douches they are #fakedcbars
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 May Exploring how I can be named a beneficiary of "The Jason Furman Trust". If this guy lost a couple of pounds, he would be DC's top bachelor.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 May @TVietor08 Nice on the Palm there. But, remember, those are Carter Administration alums -- it's not like they're hanging at Estadio ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 May Waiting to hear what @TVietor08 has to say on Donilon hit piece in today's Foreign Policy.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 May Someone should tell @joshrogin that the Pentagon draws up contingency plans all the time for everything, not only if White House asks for it
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 May Why was Jeremy Bash trotted out to do the defend Donilon piece? No one more senior? And what reward that awaits him? atfp.co/1awrcZG
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 May Only point I would dispute with in James Mann piece today? No way Tony Blinken beats out Susan Rice in race to succeed Donilon. Nada chance
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 May So I missed the laughable @jrubinblogger column defending Toria Nuland in Benghazi-gate. "Comms folks not culpable." Including @rhodes44 ?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 May When Denis McD says he and Tom D get along like Irish Catholic boys, that's code for "I hate his fat ass and can't wait to replace him". Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 May Terrific piece by @byjamesmann on the role of Tom Donilon in the Obama foreign policy machine, much to dig into here: /at:htptfp.co/15f8rsu Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 May "Has shitty staff." #ObamaInThreeWords Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 May If you're a Democrat looking for a foreign policy job in the Obama Administratio, the odds are you hate Colin McMahon from White House PPO.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 May The "experts" you cite are the patented frauds Emerson and @JJCarafano RT @RoScarborough: Experts contradict Obama on Islamic terror threat
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 May @tparsi @AIPAC What's that old saying? "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 May Congrats to @strobetalbott for a suck-up tweet. Will he say something when McCain and Graham complain about Susan Rice as NSA appointment?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 May Follow @MichaelEOHanlon if you are interested in thoughts of a dilettante poseur who pretends to be an expert on every subject in the world.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 May @Jonny99Kaplan Enough dough to make his alimony payments for Heather.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 May @EliLake And thank you for thanking me. I actually respect your Jedi mind tricks there ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 May Former A/S for Leg Aff Dave Adams joins the mercenaries, aka the Podesta Group. When will Kerry get around to nominating his replacement?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 May This is a pattern - Kerry installing domestic types like girlfriend of @dsepdc in top positions while ignoring experts who worked for him. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 May More than a few Kerry foreign policy hands grumbling that foreign policy novice @dsepdc getting Ambassador gig while they're still waiting.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 May I miss the lovely engagement photo @elilake and @joshrogin were mutually displaying on their Twitter profiles for a while there. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 May Any company that signs up for the @politico "CEO Report" for regurgitated CW from @mikeallen should be sued by shareholders for negligence.
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Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt 21 May Veteran National Security Staffer Gordon Lederman Mourned : Roll Call Hill Life /w.rp:thollcall.com/news/veteran_ntafer_gordon_lederman_mourned-2509- 1.html...iational_securty_s
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Jonathan Weisman @jonathanweisman 19 May Clinton WH lawyer once told me never ascribe to nefarious intent what can be explained w. incompetence. This is IRS nyti.ms/10bRnUd
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 May @ArmsControlWonk Which makes fact that Obama gave job to a Republican instead of one of his earliest supporters all the more interesting.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 May One of the great mysteries of the Obama Administration is how/why Richard Danzig got shut out of a high-level national security position. Expand
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 May Brett McGurk started this month as a new NEA DAS for Iraq affairs. For those of you think that name is familiar, you would be correct. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 May As @mikeallen reported, the WH gave a senior Middle East NSC slot to a junior, anonymous FSO. Obama supporters on outside are asking WTF?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 May With Congress in full scale revolt mode, maybe Denis McDonough is reconsidering his heavily criticized pick for WH leg afairs chief? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 May @tcwittes And you do realize that most of Foggy Bottom would not shed a tear if Toria's nomination for EUR gets spiked because of this flap?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 May @tcwittes I'm quite amused that you think a New York Times columnist and a random tweeter have equivalent responsibilities here.
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Eli Lake @EliLake 14 May REUP my #twitter long form piece today /htp:/thebea.st/YGE3X0
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May @tcwittes You're incredibly naive if you don't think her husband made Cheney more comfortable in hiring her for key OVP gig a decide ago.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May @emptywheel Tony Snow and Mike McCurry immediately come to mind. It's a difficult gig, no doubt about it, but there are some who shined.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May Is there anyone in DC who thinks Jay Carney is actually a good White House press secretary? What genius thought he would do a good job here?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May @tcwittes When I see House Republicans going on attack against Nuland like they did Rice and Clinton, then you will have point there.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May So does @jonathanalter equate Denis McDonough to Obama's son he never had?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May @tcwittes Does Brooks open other columns on DC figures with the caveat "he knows him/her socially" if this is such a small town? Nope.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May @tcwittes It's amusing how the fact that a conservative columnist is coming to the defense of a fellow soulmate is completely lost on you.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May @tcwittes Read it again. He says he first met her in Moscow 20 years ago. Now he knows her socially. You don't think that's b/c of Kagan?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May Odd that @nytdavidbrooks writes an entire encomium to Toria Nuland without disclosing how he likely knows her socially as wife of Bob Kagan.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 May Sounds like @mikeallen wishes Mike Feldman proposed to him, not Savannah Guthrie. P.S. No serious person cares about this shit, Mikey.
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Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush 13 May Why Susan Rice became Hillary Clinton's stand-in on Benghazi -- and how it cost her Foggy Bottom. whtp:/w.politico.com/story/2013/05/91285.html?hp=t2_...3hilary-clinton- benghazi-
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 May "Nuland in deep shit": #BenghaziinFourWords Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 May @djrothkopf Maybe, but current incumbent is suspected of major leaks to @SangerNYT and enmeshed in Fannie Mae scandal. Few noises from GOP.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 May @djrothkopf Strikes me that attention already shifting from Susan Rice to Hillary Clinton ... and Toria Nuland and @rhodes44
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 May Maybe @rhodes44 could do something useful with his Twitter account instead of retweeting stale WH press releases. Like talk about Benghazi.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 May Gotta think the White House is rethinking the Toria Nuland for EUR nomination now. Most Obama-ites never trusted her in the first place.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May Remember when @brooks_rosa was cheerleading for Kathy Hicks to replace Michelle Flournoy as USDP? Hicks leaving deputy slot after only 1 yr
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May People on the hot seat after yesterday's Benghazi hearing? Pat Kennedy and Cheryl Mills. But don't forget about Beth Jones and @rhodes44
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Brad Woodhouse @woodhouseb 7 May So I hear @GOPConference plans to put Mark Sanford on the Foreign Affairs Committee - he seems to have done both. Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 May So maybe Toria Nuland is no longer the shoo-in for EUR A/S as everyone had thought ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 May Question: Are Republicans going to go after Bob Kagan's wife in same manner they hunted down Susan Rice for role in Benghazi talking points?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May Pat Kennedy's time is coming .... @Diplopundit S e De Fi ew C mb i g? F me DCM S ys Acc bi i y Re iew “ e e e off the hook
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May Why do journos always insist on giving each other collective blow jobs when one of their tribe gets a new job? News flash: people d/n care!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May So which WhiteHouse staffers leaked to @sangernyt on the Syria redline story casting Obama in bad light? Denis McDonough is on a witch hunt!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May narcisstic details behind how he and @jsmith44 named their new kid. Congrats, but nobody beyond your family/friends really gives a fuck. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May Eric Pierce of OSD just confirmed his mega-DC tool status. Not only do we get regular updates on his birthdays, we also learn the (1/2) Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May There used to be a time when people just emailed their baby announcements to family and close friends. Now they think all of DC gives a shit
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May @mattywarsh Wow, what? Hope you're enjoying the honest shit I'm dropping on all the poseurs and fakers here in DC!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 May Valerie Jarrett and Penny Pritzker cat fight, people! Can anyone tell me what Valerie does all day at the White House again? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 May All you reporters following me, welcome! And remember I broke the news of the Bash-Shapiro-Reines consulting firm first, bitches.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 May I think we're all agreed that @Peggynoonannyc is a tired, cliched hack of a writer who is still mooching off a job she held 30 years ago.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 May Couldn't be happier that Kelly "Horseface" Ayotte is getting ripped for her cowardice to the NRA. This "amiga" won't be in Senate for long. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 May Just be sure to avoid seeing any hookers! @rhodes44
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Apr Working title for the new Bash-Shapiro-Reines firm? "Men of Flaccid Penises"/w:thpapo.st/13KfYPk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Apr Breaking: Jeremy "I'm Dana's Ex" Bash, Andrew "Pudge" Shaprio, and Phillipe "Harrass Them Until They Date You" Reines forming a new firm.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Apr If Lindsay Graham wants more headlines, how come he doesn't come out as the first gay GOP Senator? Guaranteed Sunday show placements!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Apr Hoping @TVietor08 corrects @chrislhayes that it is DAN, not DAVID Fried. Respect must be paid ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Apr Can we nominate @RichardHaass for most obssequious humble brag in his acknowledgments section of his new book? Doubt Scowcroft feels same.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Apr From loser who quit her job halfway through. MT @SarahPalinUSA The rest of America working our asses off while these DC assclowns #nerdprom
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Apr Speaking of State Policy Planning, $100 to the first person who can tell me what David McKean does with his day as Kerry's choice to run it.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Apr Credit where credit due to @slaughteram for a strong op-ed today calling out the White House for an increasingly incoherent Syria policy.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Apr Frank Luntz is a major league blowhard. There's that.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Apr It's really sad to see this from Taegan Goddard RT @politicalwire
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Apr Kudos to @erikwemple for exposing @politico for what it is. BTW, it's also a temple of male sexual frustration, as embodied by @mikeallen Expand
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Apr If you rely on a former fiction writer like @rhodes44 as one of your primary foreign policy advisors #YouJustPulledAnObama Expand
JohnKelly @JohnKelly 27 Apr I am once again boycotting that vapid incestuous schmoozefest known as the White House Correspondents Assn. Dinner. Also: I wasn't invited.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Apr Someone should tell @glubold that Samantha Power doesn't work at the NSC anymore.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Apr You know what a good insider DC read would be? All the reasons why @mikeallen couldn't get laid if his life depended on it. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Apr Also, if you're going to notify Congress on a grave security matter, find someone to sign it other than the legislative hack nobody knows. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Apr The White House would have greater credibility on Syria if it sent out a genuine issue expert to background the press today. Not @rhodes44
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Apr Bonus: She's super hot! RT @GlennThrush Sources: Top Schumer aide Katie Beirne tapped by White House as deputy communications director.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr @jonfavs Or maybe the White House can hire a real replacement for Rob Nabors, not the guy who nobody in DC knows who the hell he is.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr So this is an endorsement? RT @davidplouffe Not an Angeleno but will never forget Eric Garcetti canvassing relentlessly for then Sen Obama.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr @Calchala Why would I have tweeted about it if I hadn't read it? A tough challenge, but O lost momentum by not acting more quickly in Dec.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr Great piece by Maureen Dowd today on Obama gun control vote failure. He would be better served if he had more competent leg affairs staff.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr The WH expended a lot of capital to get Mark Lippert confirmed last year as ASD for Asia. They may not be so happy with his CoS promotion.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber 20 Apr Yikes. RT @PostBaron
Koch brothers turning focus to newspapers, possible purchase of #latimes & #chicagotribune /htp:/nyti.ms/ZckqGT
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Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT 20 Apr Applebaum,/thwp:apo.st/12ttacj,Remnick,/ntp:hyr.kr/ZDkR9u,withthebest columns on the Tsarnaevs.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Apr Hey MSNBC, trust me, you can do a lot better than clown Frank Cilluffo as a talking head for counter terrorism breaking news .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Apr Again, @Grahamblog -- instead of spinning nonsense on how to treat arrested suspects, just come out of the fucking closet! #cluelessidiot Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Apr Key to Lippert choice as new OSD CoS is he gives Hagel another direct channel to Obama. Lippert remains close confidant of POTUS. @glubold
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Apr Power couple? Sounds like @DSepDC girlfriend first got him a gig with John Kerry's Senate office and now is paving the way for a State job.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Apr @CrowleyTIME More interesting than the corresponding event in the spring of 2002? I doubt it ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Apr First order of business for Shapiro? He should
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Apr I see Andrew Shapiro is spinning madly to spruce up a mediocre run at the State Department. Staying a long time in a job not a good thing!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Apr What about the female super achievers who lead lonely personal lives filled with cats and bad frozen dinners?

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Apr BTW - are all profiles of high pwered single women required to stipulate they nevertheless "have a tight circle of loyal friends"? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Apr Wondering when Lisa Monaco's unmarried/no kids status will enter into the "Can women have it all" debate? @slaughteram @sherylsandberg
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Apr Wait, stop the presses @mikeallen - so @whoisbenchang moves from 1 money grubbing outfit to another? That's huge news that merits headlines!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Apr Hey @davidsanger you do realize the last Administration Tom Pickering served in was the Clinton Administration, right? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Apr Hey Jenny Sanford, before you get too big for your britches, remember your husband dumped yo ass for an Argentinian
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Apr @FPBaron On more serious note, wouldn't be surprised if Rexon Ryu, former Hagel staffer and now Susan Rice deputy at USUN, played role here.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Apr @FPBaron It's James Swartout, buddy.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Apr Hey Senators -- want to know more about our drone policy + other national security legal matters? The Avril Haines nomination is your chance
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Apr My respect for Michele Flournoy just went down a notch after seeing she co-authored an op-ed with that noted douche bag Mike O'Hanlon.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Apr Hearing that Sam Powers is in final stages of vetting for nomination to replace Maria Otero as Under Secretary of All That Soft Power Crap. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Apr More than a few FSOs are wondering how the hell they ended up working for David Wade and Heather Higginbottom -- foreign policy novices both
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Apr Amusing to see that John Kerry is getting flak for traveling all the time and leaving the State Department home alone.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Apr Figuring out how I can persuade @TVietor08 to hire me to help out on those "Dial into a conference call/write a memo, get $25 K" deals. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Apr Jane Harman reminded everyone today why so few people in DC like her.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Apr I feel sorry for John Kerry's press handlers, who are cleaning up one shit storm after the other he is creating on his current Asia swing. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Apr So @mikeallen demonstrates his huge journalistic chops with his timely tweets on the birth of a former President's grandchild. #breakingnews
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Apr Thanks @mikeallen - because people really give a shit what Karen Hughes's son is up to these days. #brownnoserextraordinaire Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Apr Susan Collins may think she improved her image this morning, but emphasizing TWICE that the Newtown parents were late for meeting with her?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Apr Informed that a HASC Strategic Forces subcommittee staffer by name of Tim Morrisson found DIA boo-boo on missile flap and gave Rep. Lamborn.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Apr Time to clear my calendar - there's a TMAC Second Sunday brunch this weekend! Oh my goodness, so much networking potential! #toolfest
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Apr From @mikeallen pathetic dispatch from the Joe Scarborough birthday party the other day, you sense he was jizzing in pants just to be there.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Apr So someone who has only served as a logistical aide to a VIP is eminently qualified to become mayor of America's largest city? #Huma2013
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Apr First Mark Lippert, now Chollet? McCain really is that crotchety old man telling the kids to get off his lawn!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Apr Does John McCain realize Derek Chollet is the golden child of the Democratic foreign policy establishment? Uninformed my ass! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Apr @KevinDavis755 O'Hanlon has been writing crap on things he knows nothing of for more than a decade now and no one calls him on his bullshit.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Apr One more comment: what the hell does Mike O'Hanlon (or David Petraeus, for that matter) know about infrastructure investment or energy?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Apr I hear O'Hanlon was really pissed when he heard about the Petraeus affair with Paula Broadwell, yelling, "Why didn't he choose me?????" Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Apr So fitting that David Petraeus and Mike O'Hanlon penned a joint op ed today. One's a suck up and the other enjoys being sucked up to. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Apr A make out scene between overweight @liz_cheney and grotesque @jrubinblooger? #worstlesbianpornmoviesceneever Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Apr And now a Parade Magazine cover. Has there been anyone who has accomplished so little as Chelsea Clinton yet is lionized as a hero? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Apr Is there any doubt that @jamiemfly leaked his "Dear Colleague" for @MarcoRubio to the Nelson Report to further his self- promotion agenda?
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Drunk Predator Drone @drunkenpredator 5 Apr North Korean press releases are supposed to sound like they come from Sith Lords, but they always come off more like angry Ewoks on LSD.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Apr Hearing our new Secretary of State closed a local watering hole with traveling press while in Paris last week. Even brought Andre along ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Apr I love when work colleagues send me crap they published under the header "ICYMI". Umm, yeah, I missed it and I have no regrets, people.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Apr You learn something about intestinal fortitude and hardened resolve when you have to see Bob Kagan naked every morning .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Apr Credit given where credit is due: Toria Nuland is a master bureaucratic fighter. She's the only one to make inroads to the Kerry
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Apr @ArmsControlWonk Also don't forget Andrew Shapiro. He hasn't gotten the memo that Hillary is no longer the Secretary of State. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Apr Remember when Barack Obama waxed in 2008 about naming experienced diplomats to major overseas posts? Good times. #carolinekennedyaintone
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Apr @ArmsControlWonk @HayesBrown @ska_kongshan I can confirm that is correct. Esther hasn't taken the very broad hint it's time to leave.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Mar Their letter to editor in today's NYT book review is a reminder the Leveretts are the most pathetic couple in DC foreign policy circles. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Mar Hey Phillipe, you should check in with Kurt Campbell -- he's telling EVERYONE HRC will be our next Prez and he will run her foreign policy.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Mar One unwritten story about Obama Presidency? The weight given views of largely anonymous Administration lawyers on national security policy.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Mar Very obvious that Frederic Hof was a primary source for him in this piece. Fred won't be getting a Xmas card from McDonough this year! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Mar Great read by @adamentous on WH decision- making on Syria. Captures well central role by Denis McDonough in closely controlling the process.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Mar @ArmsControlWonk So this is another intel leak by the Obamites?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Mar @ArmsControlWonk Test was in February. But the official quoted only said decision to do so was taken in December. Think before you snark.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Mar @GildaMundson Yes, that is what I understand. Very GOP state, she will win sadly if she gets the nomination. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Mar Oh sad and pathetic @mikeallen - now reduced to reporting foreign policy appointments that were announced several weeks ago.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Mar Today's rant from @Liz_Cheney reminds me: how did this fat pig get a high level State Department gig in last Administration? Oh, I forgot. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Mar @GlennThrush Too many bad memories from the Clinton-era Agreed Framework deal.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar Nepotism in Hollywood too @jonfavs Jon Favreau @jonfavs
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar Interesting piece here by Will Inboden. I hear that Rhodes has made clearhewillnotwritespeechesforDonilon./at:hpttfp.co/XKCcg4
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar What's up with @cnasdc golden child @shawnbrimley looking all French ghetto rapper with his Twitter profile pic? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar @KevinDavis755 Yep, damm kids pulling me away from the DC game for a bit. No worries, will be back shortly.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar @GlennThrush Eleanor Clift is the very definition of an inside the Beltway journalist. Nobody outside this city has a clue who she is.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar @GlennThrush Actually, it really isn't .... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar @JJCarafano As much class as you showed in that cheap shot towards Hagel ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar @BuzzFeedAndrew @politicalwire
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar @JJCarafano Whatever douchebag. Time for some hair plugs, I see.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar Someone should tell @mikeallen that if you're not a Leg Director in a House office after three years there, there's something wrong with you
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar @JJCarafano I put as much time and thought into that tweet as you do for those pro forma crap op-eds you do for The Hill.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar @FPBaron Poor @JJCarafano is a mediocre hack whom no one in DC listens to anyway .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Mar So the @whitehouse is saying things like "From the Rhodes"? But you do get a great glimpse of Ben's nose hair here; on.wh.gov/8bXOsh4
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Mar RT @RyanLizza: You are nobody in this town if you haven't apologized for favoring the war in Iraq.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Mar Why did Pentagon name neocon Mara Karlin as OSD Policy Principal Director for Strategy last fall? Didn't Obama win? /bhp:t it.ly/ZRFiPF Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Mar MT @joshuahersh: On my feed: 1) regrets on Iraq war; 2) warnings it could happen again; 3) people calling for military action in Syria. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Mar Credit to @rhodes44 for keeping his trademark snarl in his Twitter profile pic.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Mar I'm sure he's a smart guy like his brother, but Klobuchar does nada on foreign policy. So how did he get this plum Sched C appt? #nepotism
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Mar Interesting development: Jake Sullivan's brother, Tom, is now a senior official at State/H. Used to do foreign policy work for Klobuchar.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Mar Freaking out wondering if I missed this month's CFR Term Member Sunday Brunch at Local 16 and missed my monthly tool fest. #notreally
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Mar Matt Spence so wants to emulate his mentor Tom Donilon that he's developing a replica double chin even though he's only in his early 30s.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Mar If @sangernyt is reminiscing about Iraq War 10 years later, maybe he can share why he was the house scribe for Condi Rice in lead up to war.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Mar Just wish @marklandler shed some light on why Rhodes walks around with a perpetual pissed off scowl on his face.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Mar Imagine reaction of Democrats if Bush White House had a "novelist" as key White House foreign policy official relied on for his "expertise"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Mar Standard puff piece by @marklandler on Ben Rhodes today, paving the way for future scoops/leaks. That's how the DC game is played, folks.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Mar @TVietor08 I trust you are aware she was a right hand woman of Dick Cheney in the last Administration. Toria knows which way the wind blows
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Mar Public service announcement: Ted Cruz. Still a piece of human garbage. In case you were wondering.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar @timkmak Done on the follow. Of course, if I emailed you, then I would divulge my secret identity. Like Bruce Wayne, I must stay in shadows
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar So @Messsina2012 is raking in the big bucks and he can't spring for a better photo than this? thtp:/bit.ly/10Uouxw
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar @timkmak Thank you. I like to mix the occasional astute insight with a lot of mockery of the many douchebags in this town. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar @timkmak I was there. I was Lou Ann Linehan's date.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar Oh, Alec Ross, you look positively dreamy here! Nobody quite knows whatthehellyoudidatState,butwhatever./at:hpttfp.co/XBCH1C Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar Can't wait for @fpbaron and @timkmak to breathlessly gush about all the mid-level bureaucrats/hangers-on spotted at Hagel's swearingin today
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar RT @jbarro: Irony @JRubinBlogger warns that Republicans are seen poorly bc they are seen as "harsh and screaming at people." Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar I'm so glad all that hard work by Chelsea Clinton has paid off so she can buy herself a multi-million dollar home! thtp:/yhoo.it/WqU5TD
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar @GlobeBender Perhaps. But these are zero sum affairs. Having press flack there means having one less substantive policymaker.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Mar If only Chuck Hagel put as much time into his hearing prep as he is in leaking names of people coming to his swearing in ceremony today ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Mar So @marcorubio should be careful -- @jrubinblogger wants to give him the blowjob she hoped to give Romney last year: wapo.st/Z3Ps1C
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Mar An interesting new twist: Secretary Kerry is including his flack, Toria Nuland, in all of his meetings with foreign counterparts. Why?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Mar @ArmsControlWonk To be fair, Jones told Obama he wouldn't make a good NSA. Turns out he was very prescient!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Mar In retrospect, accepting Obama's job offer of NSC Adviser position was worst decision Jones ever made.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Mar Remember when Jim Jones was respected around town? Now he's shlepping for $$$ for a bunch of Iranian wackos. What a fall from grace.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Mar In retrospect, everyone should have seen Levin retirement coming when Rick Debobes stepped down as SASC staff director earlier this year.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Mar RT @FPBaron: Sarah Chayes writes "What Vali Nasr Gets Wrong"... and you should read this --> | Foreign Policy
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Mar Everyone who works in the U.S. government should read this: nyti.ms/14KiuEj
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Mar RT @TVietor08: BoltBus I love you but "meet outside Sbarro's" is the sort of direction you'd expect from a drug dealer
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Mar But I suspect it may be news to Tom Donilon that he's planning on leaving anytime soon.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Mar Why was @columlynch piece this morning on Susan Rice news? People were widely speculating on NSA appointment when she withdrew from State.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Mar @pricefloyd According to President Obama, that title belongs to Denis McDonough.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Mar Are they unaware that rest of DC is on to the fact that Michele Flournoy turned OSD Policy into a jobs program for her @cnasdc pals?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Mar Looks like I picked a nerve last night with the @cnasdc mafia.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Mar @NateTibbits So tell me what possessed you to follow my Twitter feed? Feel free to unfollow anytime, pal, but I doubt you will .... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Mar @NateTibbits You're absolutely right - I should follow your lead. Because the world really needs more tweets on college basketball

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Mar @NateTibbits Oh Nate, enjoying yourself cashing in on your time at the White House as the "Public Affairs Chair" at Burston Marsteller?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Mar Sometimes I wonder how the hell Jim Miller is Under Secretary for Policy at the Pentagon ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Mar Oh @jstrevino I knew you were an utter piece of shit. And now I see the Wall Street Journal agrees with me, per today's op-ed page. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Mar NYTimes and AIPAC are allies? RT @tparsi: When NYT calls out AIPAC by name for negative role on US-Iran talks, you know times are changing
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Mar @wellerstein Never understood point of those ads. Is a 22 year old staff ass going to see ad and say "I will insist to my Senator on this"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Mar Time for the @washingtonpost to run a Reliable Source item on @mikeallen being spotted on a date - oh wait, he doesn't have any of those!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Mar Surprise, surprise, @mikeallen takes another shot at his former employer in his daily screed. Showing lots of class there, Mikey. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Mar @btburd @lrozen @TVietor08 Bash was a veteran of the HPSCI staff. A totally different cat there.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Mar My guess is that the Wade-Danvers- Higginbottom axis of power at the State Department isn't functioning smoothly and seamlessly these days ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Mar @ClintSharpe You shouldn't need me to answer that question if you are "working on Capitol Hill" and "follow the Iran nuke beat". View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Mar @TVietor08 CIA very resistant to outsiders. Brennan is an alum and will be welcomed. Someone they view as a campaign hack not so much.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Mar What on earth possessed Tom Donilon to choose Gordon to run his Iran and MEPP portfolio? Serious people want to know

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Mar Let me get this straight. Phil Gordon, a Europhile, is appointed to oversee ME policy for NSC. And he brings with him another Europhile?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Mar John Brennan shows up at Langley today with one aide -- Nick Shapiro, former Obama campaign press flack. CIA types so very not impressed.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Mar RT @StephanieCarvin: As one of my students said "Terrorism is the Harlem Shake of International Security. It was over two weeks ago." Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar RT @MicahZenko: Rand Paul enters his ninth hour. Amazingly, the Oct. 2002 Senate debate to authorize war on Iraq was only ten hours. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar Is he trying out for a future role as the Abominable Snowman? RT @BarackObama: What a real snow day looks like. :/bhtpt it.ly/XXaDjw Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar So you lose the race for the White House, and the consolation prize is joining your mediocre son's investment firm? pht:/nbcnews.to/13G0xut
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar @loisromano Umm, you call yourself a journalist? That feed is in no way connected to the President.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar MT @radleybalko: In an alternate universe, Sen. Obama joined Sen. Paul's filibuster against President McCain's drones against U.S. citizens.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar Great photo: 1) Matt Spence going all socially awkward on us; and 2) I must meet this redheaded vixen! htp:/1.usa.gov/XWRcaD Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar Agree with substance of their argument, but watching Paul, Cruz, and Lee in a "colloquy" makes me think I entered a bizarro Senate universe.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar Is your date from last night staying behind? RT @jonfavs: It's 3pm and I'm leaving my apartment for the first time today #selfemployment
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar RT @SmartWarBlog: Regardless how you feel about Rand Paul, this filibuster is worth watching because of how rare real talking filibuster is.

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar @CraigSilverman @ErikWemple In every other industry, leaving a high profile gig after 1 yr means something went terribly wrong. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar Wondering when social conservatives will realize that a senior State Department official had a child out of wedlock recently and freak out. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar Further evidence the United Nations is a joke: :/btphit.ly/WJ4Ras
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Mar Upset that I didn't see this @tvietor08 smackdown of pathetic @jrubinblogger -- I knew I liked this guy! thtp:/nyti.ms/ZcIjwX
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Mar @noamscheiber And it comes from the douchebag who got fired from the Romney campaign after one week because he was ... gay. @RichardGrenell
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Mar Now I know I shouldn't have assumed that Dick Holbrooke was sending me a drunk text after midnight -- the motha fucka was offering me a job!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Mar From now on, reporters can save time and just write "Ben Rhodes offers generic praise of said individual; says he/she is good team player."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Mar Whenever there is a profile piece of an Obama foreign policy player, is it required to ask Ben Rhodes for a trite platitude on his/her role? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Mar Wait, Obama had to call Jake Sullivan to convince him to take the job? The one where he works for Biden? What's wrong with that picture?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Mar RT @AkiPeritz: The #AIPAC2013 conference is like if JDate only existed in one large building.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Mar Sylvia Matthews a great OMB pick, but let's just say if you have a schlong, you're not likely in running for top Obama Admin jobs anymore.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Mar @SCClemons Realize you were simply doing what all of DC knows you're famous for -- shameless unabashed name dropping. So cut the BS here.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Mar @SCClemons Pulling out the gay card doesn't work here. As I said, had you posted the same on a woman, it would have been just as creepy.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Mar @SCClemons It was a slightly weird thing to tweet on your part, but not because you're gay. Because it's weird to tweet about ppl in gym.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Mar @SCClemons Umm, chill out dude. I would have said the exact same thing if you wrote "Jen Psaki racking up the miles" at a gym club. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Mar Hanging at the @joshblockdc party tonight. Buzz in room is that Chuck Hagel will be dropping by any moment now.
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Cook E. Pusher @Envoyeur 26 Feb If the word "senior" appears in a title, it's just State Department for "un-promoted."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Mar I cannot say this enough. LinkedIn "endorsements" are perhaps the most useless things ever created. If you "endorse" someone, you are dumb
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Mar Surely Chuck Hagel can find a more impressive press flack than George Little or Marie Harf. thtp:/atfp.co/Y68KQL
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Mar Umm, @TVietor08 may be a bit freaked out you were staring at him working out. @SCClemons: Vietor pounding miles today @VidaFitnessDC
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Mar With his new White House position, the burning question is will Phil Gordon trade in his fake Euro accent for a fake Iranian accent? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Mar @EliLake I wasn't aware that my employer needs to sign off on my personal Twitter account. But thanks for your concern!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Mar So long as hacks like @EliLake keep giving the neocons virtual blowjobs, they won't have to worry about being shamed for the Iraq War.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Mar Come on, @TVietor08 is way too good looking to have an egg as his Twitter avatar!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Mar Something to ponder: what idiot forks over their hard earned cash to get insights from the Leverett and Leverett consulting firm?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Mar OMG, will @jonfavs follow me back now that's he's on Twitter? The only thing that would be better is if Tommy Vietor retweeted me! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Feb Because this is what DC lacks: foreign policy fellowship programs for wanna be tools. :htp/atfp.co/14732l7
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Feb Massive unrelenting diarrhea? MT @joshrogin: The State Department once threatened me I'd regret eating in the cafeteria. They were right. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Feb @EamonMurphy1 People abuse being in the office too. I surfed the web for four hours today and my slacker boss never noticed, View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Feb So are we all agreed that Marissa Mayer is a heartless bitch?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Feb Don't let Hagel spinners fool you -- he's badly damaged goods after this vote. That said, GOP Senators who voted no are bunch of asses. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Feb I liked how Womens Wear Daily suggested new SecDef Hagel get something for his puffy eyes. The man looks like fucking sadsack Aeyore!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Feb Of course it is. They're the incumbents running this year RT @politicalwire: The Senate's Class of 2008 is the Democratic firewall in 2014
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Feb Breaking: Senator Bob Menendez names Danny O'Brien as new staff director for SFRC Majority. Hey, Danny, enjoy that job for 3 nice months!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Feb So when Chuck Hagel gets confirmed, can you imagine the long- winded speeches in Cabinet meetings with Biden and Kerry already there?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb So if Chuck Hagel's two terms in the Senate were "unimpressive", what does that make @dansenor stint as CPA flack in Baghdad? #fuckingdouche
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb @stevenacook Not to mention giving former Lieberman hack staffer @vanceserchuk a monthly column on basis of his zero achievements ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb I feel sorry for the husband of @jrubinblogger He has to have sex with her every five years.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb @ArmsControlWonk Is that a snide reference to Tom Donilon?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb More evidence @SenTedCruz is garbage. Harangues Hagel over old remarks, but his own old remarks are off limits: thtp:/bit.ly/Yog51W
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb Someone should ask if those two Advisers are on the WH payroll or whether they are still on sequester-threatened Pentagon payroll. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb New WH CoS Denis McDonough, who has no domestic policy experience, hired as his two Senior Advisers two former OSD Policy officials. Huh?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb We'll always have that hot summer day at Old Glory when Favs and Vietor took off their T shirts. As they say, "America, you're welcome." Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb #YouDidntStartFromTheBottomIf you can ask Daddy and Mommy for a loan to start your own business. Poor Mitt Romney forgot that last year!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Feb Are you auditioning to run her WH campaign? RT @davidplouffe: The relentless negativity is tiresome. NYTimes: Pompom Girl for Feminism Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Feb The Post should explain why obscure congressional staffer merits a monthly column. Other than fact that Fred Hiatt had a hard-on for Joe L.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Feb Really, Washington Post? You give former Lieberman tool staffer @vanceserchuk a monthly column? You couldn't find anyone more deserving?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Feb Wait, Frank Lowenstein to be the new Middle East Envoy at State? Are you fucking kidding me?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Feb Wait, so David McKean has been working at State already for the past year? Was he like Kerry's secret agent mole paving the way for him?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb @darlingdelilah I'm sorry, but you are a fucking moron. Please grow a brain.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb @Pinetree_Girl @SCClemons Hagel has zero reservoir of support. That will hurt him.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb @Pinetree_Girl @SCClemons SecDef uniquely requires close cooperation with Capitol Hill. However, with Rs hating him and Dems tolerating him
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb @SCClemons Yes, I was wrong, but you have to admit that virulence of opposition to Hagel was stronger than you expected ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb MT @davidmwessel: Sotomayor on summer job at insurance co: I was shocked how much time presumably productive people were capable of wasting
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb @SCClemons But fatally weakened, no matter how much you and other #Hagel supporters may otherwise profess ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb Does anyone really think Hillary Clinton will offer anything beyond canned talking points in the speeches she will be paid six figures? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb Someone should investigate @DoriskGoodwin to see if she plagiarizes her tweets too ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb Looks like @Vali_Nasr just joined @brooks_rosa at the top of Denis McDonough's shit list: /htp:/nyti.ms/Y3pvhd View summary
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Feb Begging people to follow you on Twitter is a bit sad. RT @FPBaron: Hey @thegarance. What am I, chopped liver? #follow
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb @David_Shorr I never worked on the Hill, so I wouldn't be qualified. Of course, that doesn't seem to be a requirement for Obama leg affair!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb RT @mostrolenk: From @CSIS How Big Would #DoD Budget be Under #Sequestration? Historically Big, It Turns Out. /bt:hpt uff.ly/WZNjUT Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb @nickconfessore @jonathanweisman Agreed. Only pathetic losers like @mikeallen care about that shit.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb All you need to know about @SenTedCruz is that Sean Rushton, a protege of Manny Miranda, is his press flack. A douche working for a douche.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb Question of the day: why are the Obama Administration's foreign policy legislative affairs teams so underwhelming and unimpressive? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb @AbuSnuffy Thanks. This is exactly why House Republicans are tuning out the Pentagon when they scream sky is falling with sequestration.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb Did George Marshall or Bill Perry have weeks of fawning speeches and "courtyard farewells"? What has blowhard Leon accomplished as SecDef?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb Enough with the overblown farewells to Cabinet Secretaries! Bob Gates kicked off the self-congratulatory goodbye tour. Now Clinton/Panetta
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Feb Hey so why did @lrozen not credit me with the Jake Sullivan replacing Tony Blinken scoop? I had it first, lady! #exclusivescoopsaremine Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Feb That's @marieharf for you, folks @daveweigel: Will never understand why aides need anonymity to say "Senator Hagel is going to be confirmed"
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Feb Looks like Jake is putting on hold his plans to return to Minnesota and run for Congress. So how does Hillary feel about all this? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Feb 2016 implications: Boy wonder Sullivan, a close confidant of HRC for past 6 years, now been poached by her likely primary rival, Joe Biden. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Feb Exclusive scoop: Sources report that Jake Sullivan moving to OVP to replace Tony Blinken as Biden's point person on foreign policy matters.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Feb Even I realize how dorky this town is when people are hashtagging a lame long winded speech. Folks, there's something better on TV. #SOTU
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Feb Only king of douches @mikeallen thinks that an anodyne set of platitudes from Dan Pfeiffer constitutes a "scoop".
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Feb @lrozen Yeah, but most of your other predictions were wrong. #snapback
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Feb 2 of 3 senior Kerry appts announced today are folks with zero foreign policy experience -- Wade and Higginbottom. Should we be concerned?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Feb After all, it's awfully quick to rent out office space in downtown DC over a weekend, no? Something smells here with The Asia Group. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Feb Shouldn't folks ask whether Kurt Campbell + Nirav Patel were engaged in private sector work at same time they were still employed at State?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Feb Newsflash everyone. Lindsay Graham. Still in the closet.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Feb RT @David_Shorr: If Sen Graham's path to the SC-Sen nomination was clear & primary-free, would he be fulminating this much about Benghazi?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Feb Tough editorial this AM by NY Times calling on @SenatorMenendez to step down from SFRC Chairmanship. Will @SenatorCardin take the gavel?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Feb #FF @MenendezMustGo
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Feb Whoa, why is Twitter getting into the business of suspending accounts critical of politicians? :htp/bit.ly/UTAi18
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Feb So this insightful piece by Tom Ricks has me thinking a Hagel withdrawal is actually in the realm of the possible: :/ahtpt tfp.co/V3XfMz Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Feb Leon Panetta: Never has more acclaim been awarded a bureaucratic caretaker do-nothing. Umm, folks, look behind the curtain, please! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Feb He will be bringing along a number of EAP staffers with him, including his former @CNASdc intern whom he made a DAS ..... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Feb Today was Kurt Campbell's last day at the State Department. He will be opening an Asia-focused consulting firm shortly.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Feb "Oh fuck, Kerry has been in this job for 4days and he's already boring the bejesus out of everyone in this room!" thtp:/flic.kr/p/dT8tGU
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Feb One of worst-kept secrets in DC? Campbell and Russell hate each others' guts. This transition should be fun!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Feb Danny Russell is more or less the same person as Kurt Campbell, except for the fact that he's short, geeky, and socially awkward. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Feb RT @michaelauslin Next Assist. Secretary of State for East #Asia and Pacific Affairs will be current NSC Sr Director for Asia Danny Russell Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Feb Not to mention useful. RT @CREWcrew: Taxpayers spend $100M each year for the CRS's nonpartisan reports . They should be easily accessible.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Feb So if Lou Ann Linehan says it's not a big deal, then I guess it's not a big deal. Umm, OK.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Feb Um, nobody really cares about your opinion. RT @brooks_rosa: I'm not impressed by the Justice Dept memo on targeted killings of Americans.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Feb Hey @joshrogin -- David Wade's title was Chief of Staff. There is no such thing as a "Staff Director" for a Senator's personal office! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Feb @Diplopundit And yet no one can explain the staying power of this mild mannered and dorky ironman bureaucrat #PatKennedy View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Feb RT @Tyrangiel: Does CBS have any news people there? Cause this seems like more a news story and less of a job for Dan Marino. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Feb Don't be distracted by the frumpy sweater vest, State's U/S Pat Kennedy is a master suck-up. How else did he keep his job after #Benghazi?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Feb Here's the secret to Bill Burns' success: mumble softly so that no one can understand what you're saying, but will assume it is profound.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Feb Yeah, we get it. Your multiple #msc tweets demonstrates to all that you are important enough to be invited to Wehrkunde this year. Stop now!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Feb Who in the Obama Administration threw Hagel under the bus on his Iran comment? It was incredibly stupid, no matter often @marieharf tweets.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Feb Hey fellas, here's a tip. Leg affairs types show up at big hearings not because they're tight with the nominee, but because it's their job! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Feb Are @glubold and @fpbaron two of the most gullible journos ever born? This slobbering over Hagel and his confidants is plain unseemly ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Feb @davidmwessel Huh? Have you been hacked? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Feb Just remember, with HRC's departure we can bid fond farewell to Young Prince Douchebag Philippe Reines. Maybe he can find a girlfriend now.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Feb Does the State Department trot out same dorky folks when a Secretary departs/arrives? These ain't the folks working on Arab Spring, I hope!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jan I wonder why he is obsessed with Chuck Hagel .... RT @Cymbeline3: I wonder if Steve Clemons falls asleep in his glasses. They're all askew. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jan @mlewyn @SenTedCruz He was born in Calgary. The asshole still insists he can run for President. Unlike Barack Obama who was born in Hawaii
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jan So how the hell did Chuck Hagel not have his answer down pat on Iran and containment? Sounds like his vaunted handlers let him down ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jan Quite the bash in Whitehaven tonight. HRC throwing one last bash for her senior staff at the State Department before her last day tomorrow.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jan Who's quickly established himself as a preening jackass in just three weeks as a Senator? @SenTedCruz Go back to Canada, shithead. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jan @GlennThrush Or why Six Million Dollars was considered a lot of money?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jan The choreography is set: HRC departs State at COB Friday; Kerry sworn in at same time; makes grand entrance into C Street lobby on Mon AM.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jan MT @mattyglesias: Kerry confirmation a historic moment. Many are too young to remember the last white male secretary of state.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jan RT @markos: Remember when Tom Coburn was craziest GOP senator? Now he's middle of the pack.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jan @Calchala Eh, anonymity is essential to snarky Twitter accounts!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jan Hey goo-goo types, what exactly is the problem with secret PACs opposing the Hagel nomination? It's called free speech and this no election
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan Fair to say that the career arc of Denis McDonough is every aspiring foreign policy wonk's wet dream?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan @neilab8 None of those VPs was a leading foreign policy figure in the Congress for decades and had an entire Committee staff to draw from.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan RT @MarkLeibovich: To whom much is given...is "exploring private- sector options."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan With the #Georgetown win over #Louisville, is @chrismatthews now going to bitch slap @howardfineman on the next Hardball show? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan @neilab8 Then I don't know how you have basis to make that assertion. His close advisor just got CoS position - it d/n get bigger than that
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan @neilab8 Who are these Obama people you consider were unfairly passed over? Give me some names.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan @neilab8 I was referring to paid staffers for each man. Yes, Obama had a large group of volunteer advisors. But loyalty there d/n run deep
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan @neilab8 Yes, but how many Obama foreign policy people were there beyond McDonough and Lippert? Biden had much larger pool to draw from.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan @davne If you consider a part-time governor of a state to be a job, then technically yes.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan Has Ms. Trailer Trash lost her voice? RT @brianstelter: Still no comment from @SarahPalinUSA about her breakup w/ Fox. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan Interesting factoid: Both Tom Donilon and Tony Blinken once worked for Biden. Both of their wives work for the VP today. #incestuous Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan Now the creating myth is that McDonough helped Obama learn where the bathrooms in the Senate are way back in 2005. So which is it, folks?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan At one time, the Obama mythology had it that Denis McDonough was introduced to him by Mark Lippert when the latter was called up to Iraq.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan RT @jswatz: Why is Twitter wasting its resources on free apps like Vine when many of us would pay for an app that blocks tweets from #Davos?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jan "Tim, when you inevitably cash out and make millions in the private sector do yourself a favor and buy a new watch" pic.twitter.com/JmdZsZI8
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jan RT @DLeonhardt: RT @TonyFratto: I think you guys really do endorse when you RT. Almost all the time.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jan RT @davidmwessel: RT @WSJ: Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the leading candidate for OMB director. :htp/on.wsj.com/53aH8q Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jan On travel for the real world gig, would have had a field day providing commentary on today's Senate Benghazi hearing. Y'all missed out! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan @MorsAutVictoria Then they are the only exceptions to the rule.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan @WeeZieInc Be prepared to suffocate from the overweening ambition and blatant networking there. @Trumanproject #inaug2013 View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan Shouldn't the inaugural Address be the final item on the program? Is the POTUS speech the warmup act for Kelly Clarkson? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan @joshrogin I'm surprised you are surprised. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan RT @AndrewKirell: Hey, guys, great idea: Let's all live-tweet, quote- by-quote, the exact words we are all listening to right now! #inaug2013
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan RT @CrowleyTIME: McCain and Graham rush podium, say no speech until Obama answers questions about Benghazi
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan Does Hunter Biden wonder how it is, with all of his family connections, that all he is today is a mediocre corporate lobbyist? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan @ezraklein Schumer is Chair of the Senate Rules Committee, which along with the House Administration Committee, responsible for Inaugaral
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan This is exactly what all of America has been waiting to hear:
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jan RT @joshrogin: Today in the Capitol POTUS is signing the official nominations of Brennan, Lew, Kerry, and Hagel, per pool report.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Jan Tom Ricks has a well done post on White House discomfort with Jim Mattis. The antipathy of Tom Donilon towards the Pentagon is well known.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jan @howardfineman You may be the only person in America who thinks a college basketball result in January could be a catastrophe. #getalife
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jan @CesarConda But I'm up for the challenge! View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jan @CesarConda I'm focused on exposing self- promoters in the DC foreign policy scene, that's all. And you just hired one of the best ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jan Hearing Kurt Campbell already making plans for big-time Asia- focused consultancy and intending to raid EAP of its best/brightest to join him
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jan Best piece on Denis McDonough so far? Hands down it was by @davidnakamura in Post. Only flaw: McDonough never worked in O's Senate office
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jan RT @attackerman: "How could Hollande have thought Mali would be a quick war?" the smug American wondered. pht:/nyti.ms/T0FhMs
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jan @djrothkopf I recognize that there are fundraisers in London, Paris, and other important capitals. But DCMs do all the work anyway.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jan @djrothkopf Does anyone really care who our Ambassador is to irrelevant Carribean states? Get off the high horse, buddy!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jan Hey @marcorubio - when you have to list your new Foreign Policy "Counselor"'s internships, maybe he's not all that impressive or experienced
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jan @CesarConda You might want to inform your newest staffer then. He's telling everyone 2 years in your office and then off to the campaign.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jan Why did the International Business Times run a pointless oped by a no-name where the takeaway was that Hagel likes to sit in a butler chair?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jan @CesarConda But Fly is going to be bossng them around, right? And props to you for responding here! #respect
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jan @AdamBlickstein It looks better on the resume when it's time to cash out ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jan So @CesarConda I guess you are saying your two existing (and loyal) foreign policy staffers just weren't doing it for the Rubio 2016 dream? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jan Y'all, I had the Fly to @MarcoRubio story days ago. Fly has been telling everyone how he's going to be huge in Rubio's 2016 campaign #bigego
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jan When you're bringing in three previous marriages for baggage and a 26 year age gap (!), the odds aren't looking great for you #podestas Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jan I would imagine @mikeallen is an expert on imaginary girlfriends, hence his brilliant advice to Manti T' eo in his email rag this morning. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jan Hey @defense_news -- if you're looking for the source of @SenBobCorker worries over Hagel temperament, just interview one of his staffers.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jan RT @Neil_Irwin: O's taste in restaurants going downhill. MT @markknoller: Obama has taken the First Lady to birthday dinner at Cafe Milano.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jan "See, Mr. President, I do have some black friends!" /fp:thlic.kr/p/dMnwuZ
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jan Is a former Obama appointee turning on him? RT @janinedavidson: Why Obama Finally Called It Quits in Afghanistan tinyurl.com/b86ydcw
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jan Breaking: Marco Rubio is hiring neocon flunkie @jamiemfly to his Senate staff. More proof Rubio takes his cues from Bill Kristol +
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jan @ksadjadpour But he's not. With Steve Simon gone, the real question is WHO is running Syria policy at the White House?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jan @entropy68 @cherylrofer One would think that a former Director of Policy Planning would understand that ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jan @davidmwessel It should be noted that Chertoff's consulting firm will personally benefit by stoking cyber fears. #WSJCIONetwork
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jan Mike O'Hanlon admits there is an issue on which he is not an expert? RT @joshrogin: Big scoop coming soon on The Cable. Get ready for news..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jan An underwritten story? The cast of cronies from their NYU days that Jack Lew and Cheryl Mills brought into the Obama Administration. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jan #Protip: Never has there been such a lethal combination of wanton stupidity and hideous looks as in the case of @jrubinblogger
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DrivenForThree @clark_stefani 14 Jan Somebody get @dickmorristweets a beer... RT“@ SecW : Is he e y hi g s dde i DC h "ex-s me e"?” Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jan Bad news for the Hagel confirmation fight: Vapid @marieharf is now flacking on his behalf. Look out for a series of inane and trite tweets Expand
Walid Zafar @WeeZieInc 14 Jan a Washington Wizards fan... RT @NatSecWonk: Is there anything sadder in DC than an "ex-someone"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jan Is there anything sadder in DC than an "ex- someone"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jan So, if Ash Carter is staying on, I have to think that Jim Miller is polishing off his resume. Likely that Hagel will want his own person .. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jan Otherwise, I will assume that your current staffer, Stacie Oliver, is the source. Doubt she's going to be invited to Hagel alumni events! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jan When is @SenBobCorker going to come clean on which ex-Hagel staffers allegedly spoke ill of his management style? Any actual names, Bob?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jan RT @attackerman: Cannot wait for the first Michael O'Hanlon op-ed about Mali.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jan @ArmsControlWonk Ah, got it. Thx.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jan @ArmsControlWonk OK, I don't quite get all that nuclear mumbo- jumbo -- what's the bottom line here?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jan @ArmsControlWonk Do share ......
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jan @ArmsControlWonk It's the old adage: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jan MT @BetsyMTP: Powell on neocon foreign policy: "It's President Obama, not President McCain & not President Romney. They've lost 2 elections"
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jan Sadly, only you get to see her naked. RT @ezraklein: So much @annielowrey in today's NYT!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jan Corker employs a former Hagel staffer as his foreign policy aide -- Stacie Oliver. Is Oliver talking smack about her ex boss? (2/2) Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jan #Protip: when Bob Corker talks about ex Hagel staffers approaching him regarding his temperament, note that (1/2)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jan Is it really a good idea to continue eliminating potential forms of leverage in advance of a negotiation? #whitehouse #debtlimit Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jan Wait, there are people who would actually pay money to hang with @sangernyt on a cruise? I should charge him next time he calls for a tip!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jan Because, you see, it would be unseemly to cash out directly from the White House. You must first "cleanse" yourself. #WashingtonDCRules
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jan She will follow in the illustrious footsteps of @porszag and @kennethbaer - among other ex Obama officials - in taking this path. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jan Prediction: Nancy Deparle's stay at @Brookings will last less than 6 months before she takes a lucrative corporate gig to make major moolah
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jan Is Cece Munoz threatening to personally castrate the President here unless he appoints more women? pic.twitter.com/8aXiNNxj
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jan "Team Hagel" should first explain what the hell "aggressively gay" means. Like does Modern Family's Cam count, but not Mitchell? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jan I like how @ForeignPolicy pats itself on back for finding 10 women qualified for top jobs, but all but one is white: foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013//a_binder_for_obama?page=0,3...01/10 Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jan Needless to say, Munson didn't bring along his noxious deputy, Goldberg.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jan Per @joshrogin -- Kirk's former chief of staff, Les Munson, a former Helms guy, is now Bob Corker's primo on the Senate For Rel Committee.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jan It is universally known on Capitol Hill that Rich Goldberg is a major league jack ass: pht:/bit.ly/UO3whl
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jan So the Tony Podesta-led group organizing support for Hagel confirmation is "asking" defense contractors to pony up. Shakedown anyone?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jan Listen to @noamscheiber - the next time I hear a policymaker say he needs to go leave government to "take care of his family", I will sceam.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jan Andrew Parasite may gush about how working for Hagel was "for larger cause"; so why did he leave Hagel to cash out with mercenaries at BGR?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jan Perhaps reporters should seek out those ex Hagel staff put off by his short temper and who washed out of his office in short order.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jan Fact: every Hill staffer thinks he is working for something more than the paycheck. Fact: every Congressman visits home troops in war zone
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jan Hey reporters, are you that easily spun by ex Hagel staffers waxing breathlessly about their former boss? Please people @glubold @fpbaron
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jan @IWantToReadThis That is correct, but his former government service raises questions over how private this trip is.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jan So I expect birthers up in arms over Obama eligibility for White House to apply same rancor to Ted Cruz, born in Canada, if he runs. No? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jan If State Dept says Google's Eric Schmidt tript to DPRK is private, how to explain presence on trip of former State official @jaredcohen ? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jan @joshgerstein Holds are irrelevant for a major Cabinet nomination like CIA. Brennan will get a vote, no doubt. And he will pass easily.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jan The sycophancy of @brooks_rosa towards her true love, Michele Flournoy, is beyond pathetic.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jan @EliLake Why did you feel the need to highlight this article? Are you eager to cast aspersions on the pro-Hagel lobby? #mediabias View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jan I'm willing to hear out Lindsay Graham's criticisms of Chuck Hagel if he can produce a single woman he's dated in his life. #getoutofcloset Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jan Abrams, the convicted criminal: MT @JamesFallows: Elliott Abrams questions Hagel's judgment (!), says Hagel looks 'frankly an anti- Semite'
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jan Everyone is discussing who Kerry brings with him to State. Are there Hagelites who will follow Chuck to the Pentagon?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jan Wondering who the White House will tap to sherpa the Hagel nomination. Rob Nabors is top notch, but the rest of WH leg team unimpressive ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jan Folks, the primary reason Lindsay Graham is so aghast over the Hagel nomination is because of the anti-gay remarks #getoutoftheclosetLindsay
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jan That said, if this nomination marks an opportunity to once and for all kick loser AIPAC garbage in the teeth, then I'm all for it.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jan Disappointed that Obama didn't recognize value in picking a Democrat to head the Pentagon -- Hagel 3rd GOP SecDef out of last 4 in Dem Admin
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jan @EliLake Maybe so, but you had it just like everyone else. @joshrogin gets credit for breaking the story first. #Hagel
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jan Poor Mikey intended this virtual blowjob to lay groundwork for future access to Panetta tell-all after retirement. Maybe it will work?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jan Contrary to @mikeallen valentine, Panetta tenure at DOD largely viewed as stagnant and unimaginative. He was captured by building from Day 1
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jan @chrisargyris It is an oblique reference and doesn't mention that he was directly hired by Kerry.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jan Odd that the NY Times article never mentions that small factoid? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jan Maybe someone should ask John Kerry at his confirmation hearing about John Kiriakou - one of his former staffers: htp:/nyti.ms/TRwzwL
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jan RT @mikebarnicle: @MarkLeibovich Sam Nunn to replace Andy Reid in Philly.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jan I just hope that constructing a new smoking break room on the 7th floor for Frank's hourly puffs doesn't cost too much.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jan If John Kerry names Frank Lowenstein as Jake Sullivan's replacement at Policy Planning, that's like going from RGIII to Sexy Rex Grossman. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jan This @lrozen piece on possible picks for Obama 2nd term jobs is what we call the "care and feeding" of your sources: :/bhtpt it.ly/136MPyX Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jan @AmericasImpact @djrothkopf Wrong, folks. This LA Times piece is a nice profile of Flournoy, but it's a news article, not an endorsement.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jan Did @jrubinblogger seriously suggest Mike O'Hanlon and Ken Pollack as SecDef alternatives to Hagel? Does she want to prove she's a dingbat?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jan That wailing you are hearing in DC tonight is from all the Flournoy cronies bemoaning the fact that they won't have guaranteed DoD jobs ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jan How much of a tool do you need to be if immediately after you get engaged, you are compelled to share details with @mikeallen and @Politico?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jan @AnnieLowrey Do tell us what is so fascinating about Ms. Duflo.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jan Per @joshrogin - the SFRC GOP caucus meetings should be fun. McCain, Rubio, Paul, Flake, and Ron Johnson all in one room? Oh my ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jan @johnston_kelly A Traditional IRA and a Traditional 401k two very different things. The latter hold much larger balances ..... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jan @johnston_kelly As your subsequent tweet noted, that has been allowed under existing law. What's new here is allowing Trad 401ks to Roths.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jan @johnston_kelly You're wrong because your original tweet stated fiscal cliff revenue assumed from conversions from Trad IRAs to Roth IRAs.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan The young to middle-aged wealthy will benefit by having retirement savings grow tax-free. Does little for average folks. #fail Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan Govt raises money because existing 401(k) balances will be taxed when converted now. But also means govt misses out on long-term taxes.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan If passed, deal allows existing 401(k) balances to be converted into Roth IRAs. Current law only allows Traditional IRA conversions. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan #FiscalCliff deal provision allowing new Roth IRA conversions perfect example of Washington's penny-wise, pound-foolish budgetary approach.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan @brianbeutler More of an incentive to younger folks actually. They have more time for their new Roth IRAs to grow tax-free.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan @johnston_kelly Wrong, it would allow conversion from a Traditional 401(k) to a Roth IRA. That's not allowed under current law.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan RT @samsteinhp: Remember.... Boehner could have had $400k tax threshold, $800b in spending cuts + chained CPI. He went with plan b Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan @David_Shorr Multiple tweets in the span of a few minutes is plain obnoxious. Just leads to a bunch of unfollows.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan RT @BorowitzReport: Praising Congress for fiscal cliff deal is like giving arsonist award for putting out his own fire: :/bpthit.ly/U4P7x3 Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan @scharap We get it, some people like your little op-ed there. Can you stop retweeting it now?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan So @AriFleisher tweets that the #fiscalcliff deal will prompt him to donate less to charity in 2013. Glad to see what motivates his giving! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jan MT @GlennThrush: Idea that it takes 'courage' to cast a vote is a joke. 750k lost jobs/month in '08. Who cares if 20 reps need a new one? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Dec After all, I'm hearing that Ed Royce plans to clean house there -- the Ros Lehtinen staff is known by all as a den of crazy wingbats .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Dec I see that Ileana Ros Lehtinen, aka @ForeignAffGOP, is tweeting up a storm this week. Shouldn't her staff worry about finding new jobs? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Dec Remember folks, when John Bolton trashes Hillary's PR operation this is the same guy who relied on douchebag @richardgrenell as his UN flack
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec RT @jimantle: RG 3 is Washington's greatest leader, but our government is run by Tony Romos.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec Ah, @richardgrenell - the only gay man in America who can't get laid if his life depended on it. Price you pay for being a douche Republican Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec @djrothkopf To be fair, if HRC were a regular person, none of us would care about her health other than her family #realtalk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec I'm guessing John Bolton is preparing his apology to Hillary Clinton for the whole "Benghazi flu" remark now ....#ofcoursenot Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec @David_Shorr Yes. When men offer "family" excuse, we all know it's BS. When Flournoy offered it, everyone believed it. Why double standard?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec @jonathanweisman Lugar and Snowe yes votes will do NOTHING to help Boehner with his caucus. #FiscalCliff
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec Why would a WH counsel want to have lunch with an airhead Tampa socialite?/phtp:oliti.co/UxqRkw#unanswerablequestions View summary
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec to take Sec Def position less than a year later, is it safe to say her family doesn't need her anymore? Or that the excuse was BS all along?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec Upon her departure this past February, Michele Flournoy said she was doing it to spend more time with her family. If she accepts offer (1/2)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec @SCClemons Yeah, I remember his strong and emotional defense of Susan Rice at first post-election presser changed the tide there #notreally
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec So where are John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte and the other "the sky is falling" types now that DoD sequestration is a sure thing?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Dec Oh, goodness, imagine what Chinese hackers could do with reams and reams of trite, bland platitudes from Richard Haas! /bhtp:t it.ly/Ty2Mc4 Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Dec @SallyTreadwell Based on that photo you have posted, I hope a membership to a local gym was one of your Xmas presents. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Dec @attackerman I don't think defeat was so obvious at the outset. Imagine if European powers recognized the Confederacy early on?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Dec @SallyTreadwell No, I'm just not interested in hearing the opinions of stupid ignorant people like you. Feel free to unfollow me. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Dec @SallyTreadwell Please don't chime in with your silly drivel.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Dec Newsflash to @mikeallen - a President on his death bed may have a few better things to do than read your morning news roundup.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Dec Right or wrong, Hagel was viewed as a preening prima donna who was abrasive to his colleagues in private. Hence, Inhofe's "curt" comment ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Dec What many don't grasp re the animus to Hagel by his former GOP colleagues is that this is as much about personality as it is policy. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Dec Re Benghazi, tell me again how Pat Kennedy kept his job? The man has a sourpuss personality and dresses like a junior high school teacher.

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Dec So @foreignpolicy publishes a predictable valentine from @brooks_rosa to Michele Flournoy. Women can play the back scratching game too ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Dec Hey @SCClemons -- did you not get the memo? The White House is waving the white flag on Hagel. Time to move on, pal.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Dec So a bunch of Tea Party losers donated their money to give Dick Armey a $8 million parachute. Great work, idiots ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Dec If anyone needed more evidence what garbage Dick Armey is, this latest story of his "hold-up" of Freedom Works seals the case. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Dec Chelsea Clinton has accomplished ZILCH in her life beyond the savvy of choosing the right parents to have. She is owed nothing. Just go away
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Dec Is there a groundswell in this nation pleading for Chelsea Clinton to assume a role in our public life? I didn't think so ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Dec And Donilon can't stand her. So no Hagel is only good news for Ash Carter to get the promotion he openly salivates after .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Dec I know Flournoy is a trendy pick for her cult- like DC groupies, but she represents nothing more than technocratic competence. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Dec Now White House backing away from Hagel. Who at 1600 Penn has been managing the abysmal selection process for national security picks?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Dec Strike a blow for the forces batling craven nepotism in our politics: Teddy Kennedy Jr bows out of MA-SEN race .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Dec Maybe @mikeallen instead can update us the next time he actually has sex. And blowing Vandehei in Politico's men's room doesn't count.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Dec Thank you @theatlanticwire for calling out @mikeallen for his craven and repeated putdowns of the reporting of other media outlets. Expand

NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Dec Really, WSJ Editorial Page? You bash Colin Powell for years, but now he would be a good choice for SecDef nee Chuck Hagel? How craven!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Dec The extended saga of Frank Lowenstein's departure alone consumed more than a year of the Kerry chairmanship.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Dec Kerry's record managing the SFRC bodes ill for his management skills at State. Lots of personnel turnover, low morale is what I hear.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Dec How embarrassed must you be today if you are a relative or friend of Wayne Lapierre?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Dec @Cirincione Are you a paid flack for Chuck Hagel? We get it, you think he should be nominated. No need for 25+ tweets!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Dec @ArmsControlWonk Oh, poor Ivo is just fretting that he won't get a good 2nd term job to follow up his stint at @USAmbNato View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Dec Andrew Parasiliti waxes poetic on honor of working for Chuck Hagel, it d/n stop him from leaving to cash out with Barbour Griffith Rogers! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Dec Hey @attackerman Donilon thinks Flournoy toed the generals' line too much. And Donilon is NOT a fan of the generals!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Dec And on schedule @Peggynoonannyc delivers a ridiculously overwrought and absurd piece on the Newtown tragedy: online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...2142412787324616045781918414608174.html View summary
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Dec When Fred and Kimberly Kagan have sex, I'm guessing their default position is cowgirl. #justsayin
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Dec Wait, is @rajivwashpost reporting that Petraeus had an affair with Fred Kagan too?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Dec Are Republicans finally wising up that maybe Susan Rice wouldn't have been so bad? #chuckhagel
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Dec @GlennThrush Fair enough, but you risk losing some of your Twitter followers. Always a tradeoff!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Dec @GlennThrush We get it, people like your

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Dec All of which means that Ron Wyden could be your new SSCI Chairman.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Dec Inouye death could lead to major Senate shuffle. If Leahy takes over Approps, Feinstein could leave Intel chair to head up Judiciary. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Dec @chrisargyris Jake Sherman has a bright future ahead of him. But I suspect his eyes are set on the White House several decades from now.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Dec Also, why does @yochidreazen believe that serving in Congress is a prerequisite to a national security Cabinet position? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Dec Tony Blinken, Dan Poneman, Jim Steinberg, Kurt Campbell + Wendy Sherman are just a few of the names that come to mind who weren't mentioned.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Dec An odd piece by @yochidreazen in today's WP Outlook section. He ignores a ton of talented Dems ready to take the next step to Cabinet rank.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Dec The White House is picking Kerry with full knowledge that a SFRC Chairman Menendez will make their lives hell on key foreign policy issues.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Dec If Kerry takes over at State, what happens to Bill Burns and Wendy Sherman? Inquiring minds want to know.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Dec RT @intelwire: This is unbelievable. Virtually every detail of this story has been incorrectly reported at one point or another. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Dec In the pages of ink he has devoted to Robert Allbritton, has @mikeallen devoted one word to the Riggs Bank scandal? Didn't think so.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Dec I still laugh when I see the "Deputy Assistant Secretary" title in front of Phillipe Reines. Shouldn't it be "Major League Douche"? Expand

NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Dec Tom Nides and Bill Burns woke up this morning to find a huge dump on their front door steps, with note "Thanks for taking my place, Hillary"
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Dec Come on Republicans. Don't disappoint me. This Hillary "concussion" is awfully convenient, eh, with Benghazi testimony next week, no?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Dec Who are the hanger ons who could benefit from Kerry at State?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Dec Did it ever occur to Republicans that Susan Rice is more hawkish on foreign policy than either John Kerry or Chuck Hagel? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Dec Panetta complaining like a grumpy old man about the fiscal cliff is getting old. He should stop wasting taxpayer $ flying to Cali every week
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Dec Good piece by @joshrogin on Obama officials drinking sake when DPRK launch occurred. But silly criticism that statement came 2.5 hrs later.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Dec So Susan Rice is meeting with Obama tomorrow? I thought she was supposed to be negotiating a resolution against North Korea?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Dec The White House made this decision because they calculated that the political pain was just not worth it.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Dec Let's be very clear: Susan Rice would have been confirmed. No way GOP could have successfully filibustered her -- only 5 Rs need defect.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Dec Has there ever been more coverage of a person NOT being selected for a Cabinet post? #susanrice
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Dec @nukes_of_hazard As quickly as they made Susan Rice the scapegoat for an event over which she had no control over or role in ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Dec So Susan Rice just had rest of her week ruined by the DPRK rocket launch. Think the White House will still announce Cabinet picks this week?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Dec There are deadbeats who barely register a heartbeat who are SES-ers and GS-15s in the fed govt. This is why our system is so fucking broken.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Dec So the CIA analyst who deserves mucho credit for finding Bin Laden couldn't get promoted to a GS-14? Are you fucking kidding me, people?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Dec Anyone else notice Peter Orszag was sporting a brand new fresh toupee on Morning Joe this morning? Just in time for the holidays! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Dec @EliLake The next time I need unsolicited advice on how to handle my Twitter account, I'll know to whom to turn. Ever hear of a parody acct?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Dec Of course, @mikeallen - in his classic lips kissed to ass stance - was there to report all the important deets. Thank God for the Playbook! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Dec Everything that people hate about the DC scene was showcased at Saturday night's party thrown by the GOP douchebag couple -- the Bonjeans.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Dec Kicking myself for missing the CFR TMAC Second Sunday Brunch today. Where else can you see such a high-intensity concentration of tools?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Dec @K8brannen When will current and future pol appointees recognize that index funds are the way to go? Cheaper and no controversy .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Dec The more @brooks_rosa writes about her time in government, the more I wonder what Michele Flournoy was thinking when she brought her in ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Dec When Heritage hires/promotes both Jim Demint and @jjcarafano to senior positions on the same day, you know it's turned into #clowncentral
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Dec @benwurgaft Ah, but nothing beats DC parties where the answer to "What do you do?" dictates whether the convo goes more than a minute ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Dec How cool would it be to become the boss of your current boss? Sounds like Denis McDonough may find out soon ... Tom Donilon not so much.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Dec Is the reason @FreeBeacon making snarky tweets about Jon Favreau because its entire staff combined has had fewer sex partners than Favreau?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Dec Why are all these people "endorsing" me on LinkedIn? Did I ask you for an "endorsement"? No? Then fuck off. What a useless concept. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Dec For those wondering if President Obama will appoint Lugar to a senior position in 2nd term, you really should know better? #olderthandirt Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Dec @neilab8 Georgia has been clamoring for NATO membership for years. Think they consider themselves Middle Eastern?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Dec Why does the NSC's Ben Rhodes always walk around with a perpetually pissed off look? Never seen this cracker break a smile ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Dec Glad to know that @jrubinblogger considers Georgia part of the Middle East. Tell me again why the Washington Post pays this idiot? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Dec Michele Flournoy may be gone from the Pentagon, but all of her @CNASdc cronies remain behind. #justsayin
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Nov What keeps Bill Burns up at night? I'll tell you - - the prospect that Denis McDonough is coming for his job ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Nov Watch Jon Stewart right now rip the hypocrisy of McCain and Graham in opposing Susan Rice today, but supporting Condi Rice 8 years ago.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Nov No way the Senate does not give a Sec State nominee an up or down vote. And only 5 Rs have to break off to make cloture if a filibuster. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Nov Why do gullible reporters keep writing that Senators will put a "hold" on a Rice nomination? Holds only matter if they prevent a vote. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Nov @ArmsControlWonk OMG you had to attend a STAFF MEETING??? The horrors of cushy think tank life ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Nov @Tarquitius Besides Scott Brown, no MA Republican gives Dems concern. And it is doubtfulthat Brown would run again for Senate.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Nov It avoids a messy confirmation battle for Rice while giving her a promotion and makes Kerry very happy. Donilon gets shaft, but not much.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Nov A WH source today floated an interesting option to me: Kerry to State, Donilon to CIA, and Rice to NSA.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Nov @David_Shorr @ArmsControlWonk That doesn't really help people who are figuring out how they can get to the "mid-career" point of their lives
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Nov @ArmsControlWonk Which, of course, happened with Harvard and our friend Paula ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Nov In the executive branch, the real movers are sharp PMFs. Having a PhD is considered a disadvantage in securing access to that program.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Nov That said, disagree with @joshuafoust on universal appeal of PhDs. It is scoffed at on Capitol Hill as too pointy headed.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Nov I honestly never thought about the cost-benefit tradeoff of five years of a (free) PhD vs. two years of a very expensive Masters degree. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Nov Smart piece by @joshuafoust here on the value of PhDs for aspiring foreign policy wonks: thtp:/bit.ly/Tr3nNj
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Nov Why is #LizandDick trending on Twitter? Did the world's most reprehensible father-daughter pair -- the Cheneys -- commit another blunder?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Nov @Cirincione When did you become the PR agent for Bill Press?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Nov RT @RBReich: You got him reelected. Now push O to hold his ground on fiscal cliff. No deal unless wealthy pay their fair share. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Nov Anyone ever notice that @mikeallen carries more "reports" from the weddings/birthdays/jerkoff sessions of douchebag Republicans? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Nov I'm guessing Republicans are going to hate Nate Silver, aka @fivethirtyeight even more once they learn he is gay: htp:/bit.ly/WqfE2U
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Nov Since today is the birthday of Phillipe Reines, he will be expecting the obligatory "Fuck you"s from his family and friends .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Nov RT @alexwagner: Thank god the International Herald Tribune carries Garfield. Makes it THAT much easier not to lose touch when on the road.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Nov At same time Broadwell is National Security Advisor? NSART @DoyleMcManus: Long-term career goal for #Petraeus Sec State lat.ms/WoZMho
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Nov @LauraHubka Hmm, what are these things you speak of?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Nov Nice to know Marco Rubio is already selling his soul to religious know-nothings who dominate the GOP. This really your guy, Bill Kristol?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Nov RT @sethmeyers21: Here's the Weekend Update "Winners and Losers" recap on the Petraeus Scandal pht:/w.hulu.com/watch/426526
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Nov Stunned that White House reporters haven't picked up why WH issued statement in praise of John Gagliardi. He coached DNSA Denis McDonough!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Nov @djrothkopf It's "teeming" ;-)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Nov RT @EdwardTufte: hint:D/n lie on your bio, for someday if you're important enough the lie will be revealed and you'll no longer be important
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Nov Why is @joshrogin crowding up my Twitter feed today? Isn't it time for another cigarette break?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Nov @joshrogin But it's more fun this way. And let's not kid ourselves. You're never snarky towards an actual or potential source. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Nov @natsecHeather @joshrogin Nope. And if I were, retweeting myself would be the epitome of narcissism.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Nov RT @KenDilanianLAT: At CIA, Petraeus liked his water bottle handed to him so he didnt break stride. pht:/lat.ms/ULVejM
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Nov RT @joshrogin: Every Asian official ever: That island was ours first, end of story. #Halifax2012
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Nov Why do reporters marvel that Paula Broadwell was the valedictorian of her HS class? People, she went to a HS in N. Dakota! #howhardisit
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Nov Biggest failure of judgement in Petraeus Gate? That high ranking military officers befriended this idiot: thtp:/bit.ly/S3AWDK
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Nov Oh sad, pathetic @richardgrenell He's just sexually frustrated because @grahamblog keeps turning down his blow job offers ..... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Nov To be fair, though, there's no way any Democrat votes against a Rice nomination. It would be messy, but she'll get confirmed.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Nov Wow. @milbank lowers the boom on @ambassadorrice He cuts to the bone, baby! How will her hapless spokeswoman @erin_pelton ever respond?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Nov RT @attackerman: So many male Pentagon bureaucrats with ponytails. Photo gallery coming soon
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Nov @amratner I am like Batman. I can never surrender my anonymity .... Sorry.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Nov @amratner From everything we are seeing, it appears Broadwell was due for a wreck for some time coming now. I have no sympathy.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Nov The reality is all of us who work in/around the DC foreign policy establishment know our own Paula Broadwells -- the self promoting jackals.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Nov RT @joshuafoust: In many ways, Paula Broadwell inadvertently exposed how ridiculous the dc foreign policy establishment can be... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Nov Lindsay, don't think for one minute I don't hold you ultimately responsible for being a very gay man in a very narrow closet! @grahamblog
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Nov Now we know why Paula Broadwell received two identical masters degrees : :htp/bo.st/UJ1OaV
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov Umm, if Broadwell was sleeping with Petraeus, his daily schedule one of the least interesting things she knew about him .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov Irony of GOP attacks against Rice? The last Rice nominated for Sec State had SO much more baggage -- think "mushroom cloud" - and sailed in
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov @djrothkopf They don't care. They want a scalp for Benghazi and Rice is the most obvious candidate ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov A must read by @noamscheiber on why Paula Broadwell is, among other things, a complete intellectual fraud: thtp:/bit.ly/PUl8Vn View summary
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov One good thing about Kelly Ayotte replacing Joe Lieberman in the "Three Amigos"? These clowns can't pretend they are bipartisan anymore ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov Is it fair to say that Jill Kelly is Tampa's poor version of Michele Salahi? A pathetic social climber, - and way in over her head in debt. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov RT @AdamSerwer: Hilarious McCain quote in kicker to this @daveweigel piece on McCain's antipathy towards Susan Rice slate.me/X8PN5B
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov @davne Agree, Jill looks like an all grown up version of Monica. And her twin sister? Even CRAZIER .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov Kudos to that anonymous Romney fundraiser who leaked excerpts from today's call. Poor Mitt forgets that remarks to donors can hurt him!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov Who the fuck does Lindsay Graham think he is, acting all macho on Obama and Rice? Hey Lindsay, when are YOU going to come out of the closet?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov Does John McCain really think Rs can hold entire caucus except for 4 Rs to uphold a filibuster against Susan Rice? What is he smoking? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov Needless to say, the White House would not welcome this obnoxious maverick newly empowered to critique its foreign policy choices .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Nov Surprised folks not focusing on likelihood that, if Kerry leaves for Cabinet, Bob Menendez becomes the new Foreign Relations chairman ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Nov Odd how Richard Danzig has totally fallen out of the conversation for Obama national security gigs. He was instrumental during 08 campaign.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Nov @attackerman So would Cass Sunstein, but what's your point?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Nov Just curious, but why did Broadwell earn identical masters degrees from University of Denver and Harvard? Hope taxpayers were not on
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Nov A quote from Broadwell: "My longterm goal (is) to become national security advisor." Who says that with a straight face? Good grief ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Nov RT @CrowleyTIME: Is Petraeus's fall symbolic end of the cult of counterinsurgency? 'Hearts and minds' has been replaced by drones and SEALs.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Nov What's up with all these women involved with General Petraeus being married to doctors and living affluent lifestyles?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Nov For everyone wondering if Obama now has a mandate: funny how Bush White House never hesitated to move forward after disputed 2000 election.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Nov @davne In retrospect, the answer can only be yes.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Nov @edwardm26 All the press accounts indicate the emails were sent from Broadwell to other woman. Investigation found Broadwell emails to P4.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Nov the biography of the most successful U.S. general in modern history? Plenty of big time biographers would have killed for this chance (2/2) Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Nov 2) Why didn't more people raise eyebrows when a woman with zero books to her name and no journalism background was selected to write (1/2)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Nov More questions on Petraeus affair: 1) Since when does the FBI investigate harassing emails? Isn't this a matter for you local police dept?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov This Petraeus story is the best thing that could have happened to journalists otherwise fearing a slow post-election period ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov @politicalwire How did John Kerry do that to himself? I agree, but Kerry has no control over situation ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov RT @frankrichny: Bachmann's win, is good news in disguise: she'll work 24/7 to keep nutjob base of GOP on camera
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov @NYCatNY This shitstorm is not all happening because of an "emotional affair" ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov @NYCatNY Huh? One of the stories I read referenced an email referring to "sex under a desk".
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov @deborahmou There's no "should" here. It's just reality. I'm also pointing out that Broadwell was no innocent here. She cheated too.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov @deborahmou So, yeah, I think she was the more aggrieved party here.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov @deborahmou Details are still emerging, but it appears Broadwell sent harassing emails to friends of Petraeus, which sparked investigation.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov @samwilkinson @joshuafoust Broadwell is married too. Two kids. Her fame was entirely derived from Petraeus. Not sure why this is unfair.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov And, before feminists get up in arms, remember that Broadwell was married too. She's just as guilty as Petraeus here -- and less successful.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov Fair to say that, over long run, career of Broadwell will be much more damaged than Petraeus. In a year, he will making 6 figure speeches. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov @DragonSmolt @RBReich Petraeus retired from the military when he assumed the CIA position, so that is not an issue ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov You can just look at her eyes and know that Paula Broadwell was CRAZY! Again, Petraeus mistake not in having affair, but the lady he chose!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov @Jonah_Blank Moreover, do we really want sleazebag Bob Menendez as the new chair of the Foreign Relations Committee? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Nov RT @politicalwire: Letter to The Ethicist from a man who knew his wife having an affair with a "government executive" /pt:pht wire.at/Tyojht
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Nov @RBReich Because he is no longer eligible for a security clearance due to blackmail concerns. How difficult is this to understand? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Nov RT @citosapiens: I feel bad for Patraeus. All day they've showed him standing in front of the World Affairs Council banner.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Nov @RobertCaruso Are you the PR person for @FranTownsend ? Or just a creepy stalker of hers?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Nov MT @marcambinder: Lots of questions about the resignation, but to think he took fall for Benghazi by admiring to an affair is beyond stupid.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Nov Wait, I thought they don't allow hideously ugly people on TV? RT @JRubinBlogger: Will be on CNBC with Larry Kudlow tonight at 730 pm ET
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Nov Oh Ron Johnson, you pathetic hillbilly. When you replaced Russ Feingold, average IQ of Wisconsin delegation dropped by 40 points. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Nov Today @jrubinblogger is puzzled Mitt Romney turned down her offer of an actual blow job. She wanted to do one last favor for the campaign.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Nov When Les Gelb waxes on about the "brilliant next generation" of Democratic foreign policy types, he comes off as a creepy old man. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Nov RT @JamesFallows: First-rate demolition by @Conor64 at @TheAtlantic of the embarrassment to the WaPo that is J Rubin bit.ly/Tyb42D
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Nov So Michele Flournoy blocked the WH from sending pol appointees to OSD Policy? Same woman who stuffed the Policy shop with @CNASdc cronies?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Nov Mary Matalin is a disgrace for calling our President a "sociopath". So ugly that James Carville is considered the looker in their marriage. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Nov I wonder how NBC's First Read must feel about Chris Nelson copying and pasting their political analysis for a newsletter that costs mucho $$
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Nov RT +1 RT @fshakir: Wash Post readers got "a lot more hackery and a lot less informed about the election" from Rubin. h/b:pt it.ly/RgVGYk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Nov Having as your "team leaders" clowns like Michael Allen and @jamiemfly speaks to an Amateur Hour mentality in Romneyland. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Nov Great reporting by @joshrogin on the Romney transition team that never was. And thank goodness -- what a group of incompetent Bush retreads
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Nov @Woolaf I worked on the Hill. I know that Members don't spend time with CRS analysts. Let's not kid ourselves here, OK?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Nov A shame that Howard Berman lost to Brad Sherman. DC types know that Sherman is disgusting. Also - his wife is +25 years younger but frumpy
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov RT @frankrichny: Does @ABC have any obligation to hold George Will accountable for his prediction of 321 Mitt EVs? A serious news org must.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @robertcaruso You're kidding,right? Donilon would face an extended Senate confirmation battle over 1) Benghazi 2) Sanger leaks 3) Fannie Mae
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Oh @brooks_rosa -- snarky tweets like that won't help you get back in the good graces of Tom Donilon and Denis McDonough ..... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @csisponi @armscontrolwonk @nukes_of_hazard Ah, we were so close to sending his uber-obnoxious staffer Tim Morrison to the unemployment line
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @nukes_of_hazard I would be more confident if you had an Ohio paper, not a Beltway trade publication, as your source here ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @nukes_of_hazard Huh? NY Times showing Turner leading with 55% of vote with almost half of all precincts reporting. You sure you're right?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Looking forward to seeing one set of assholes rip into another set of assholes. And vice versa. #GOPCivilWar
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Republicans already spinning that a retention of their House majority means that there is no mandate for Obama. America -- don't buy it. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @husainhaqqani Note that most Democrats like @SlaughterAM don't consider a right wing conservative female like Fischer as a "woman" ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov RT @PaulKawika: Rape dudes out lesbian in! #election
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Is it safe to say that, of all the results tonight, Rachel Maddow is most giddy that an open lesbian will be a U.S. Senator? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Pot calling kettle black. @estepnagy: Megyn Kelly recapping Robert Gibbs' appearance on Fox News: '...and then he just got annoying' Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @attackerman Something like this: POTUS -- "Hey bitch, here's how things are going to roll from here on out".
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @nukes_of_hazard I'm envisioning a lot of circle jerks going on right now. Intellectually speaking, of course ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @Woolaf Umm, you do realize only Congressional interns read CRS reports, right?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Has there ever been a greater concentration of douchebags than this gathering in McClean tonight? thtp:/bit.ly/SZ1VA9
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Predicted post-election GOP meme: A majority of "Real Americans", e.g. white people, supported Romney and that's all that really matters.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Folks, Dick Lugar may be smiling, but his Foreign Relations staff are about to get their pink slips from Bob Corker. Right? -- @joshrogin Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Liz Cheney: No better example exists of how old fashioned nepotism can still get you places in these United States of America. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Wow. In short order, we just saw Warren, Baldwin, and Brown declared as victors in key Senate races. Harry Reid will remain Majority Ldr.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @djrothkopf One may not agree with all of Warren's positions, but it will be refreshing to have someone there willing to stand up to Wall St
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov RT @luizachsavage: Question: Did R talk of late enthusiasm surge actually motivate more O voters to turn out?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @blakehounshell @JacksonDiehl Nope. Warren win sealed chances for Kerry. Why would WH risk Scott Brown as favorite in a replacement race?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov RT @ezraklein: Still seeing no evidence of a systematic anti-Romney bias in the polls.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov So much for the Romney campaign predicting MI was in play. It was called right away at closing time for Obama. #agoodnight Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov These ridiculously long lines in VA and FL are the best argument for early voting/absentee balloting. Seriously, are we a 3rd world country?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Can't wait to see how @peggynoonannyc spin her absurd predictions this morning after Romney loss. Does she just make up her "anecdotes"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Sad sack @noonanjo is still tweeting the good fight when he should be brushing up on his resume. You're unemployed tomorrow, bozo! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov One good result of a Romney loss? Slimy and swarmy @dansenor doesn't get anywhere close to the White House. He defines what a "tool" is.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @ezraklein Not to mention an Elizabeth Warren in the place of retiring Ben Nelson ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Time to go back to the WWF, lady. Don't let the door hit you. @AP AP RACE CALL: Democrat Chris Murphy wins Senate seat in Connecticut.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov God bless Karl Rove. He's the only one on Fox still spinning a Romney win tonight. Is he related to True Believer @jrubinblogger ? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov So @jamiemfly has been telling everyone in town what a key role he would play in Romney transition. Guess not suckah! @ForeignPolicyI Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov So what happens to Alex Wong, Romney's foreign policy "coordinator"? Does he wait for Lanhee Chan to get a new job and then glom on there?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov RT @CrowleyTIME: The tone on Fox is pretty dark, feels like an autopsy. You get no sense of upbeat insider knowledge from within the GOP.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov RT @ezraklein: Exit polls currently show Nate Silver winning this election.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov When Darth Vader takes off the mask. RT @TheAtlanticWire: Dick Cheney watching the returns. PHOTO: via @joehagan twitpic.com/bayk1u
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov So, assuming Obama is re-elected, is it fair to say that Benghazi disappears as an issue? Oh, what will pathetic @jrubinblogger do then?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @zbyronwolf @marcambinder Umm, Bill Nelson will be very surprised to hear that his Senate colleague Ben Nelson has moved to FL from Nebraska
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov RT @marcambinder: Best gauge of the evening: the mood at Fox News. Just watch for a while.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov And Derek Chollet as incoming National Security Advisor. RT @CrowleyTIME: Eight years ago the plan was for VP John Edwards to win tonight
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov Fox News pundits already talking as if Romney has lost and explaining how this could happen ..... and it's only 7:30 PM EST ..... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov A shame that Indiana was so quickly called for Obama. It's easy to forget he won this state in 2008 .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov RT @DanSnyderCares: Romney up 28-3 after 6 minutes! This reminds me of that Monday night game against the Eagles.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Nov @CrowleyTIME But @politico promised us that it would finally provide the rest of us schmucks access to those conversations!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Nov I forget - was Twitter even around for Election Night 2008?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Nov @ArmsControlWonk No offense, but how many former officials are eagerly awaiting your stamp of approval?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Nov RT @jmartpolitico: The problem w the "It was sandy!" spin from Rs is that every public poll in OH immed before sandy had Obama up Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Nov Dumbass @jay_severin forgets that a significant share of GOP voters don't "believe" in evolution. So whose voters are stupid? #rightwingass
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Nov RT @CrowleyTIME: Is it definitely too late for Sarah Palin to jump in? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Nov @SamWangPhD Better yet, let's start a petition drive to ask the Washington Post to fire @jrubinblogger -a disgusting excuse for a "pundit"
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Nov RT @pourmecoffee: Only one pundit regularly got under my skin this election. I'm not saying who but it rhymes with Rennifer Jubin.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Nov RT @MicahZenko: Must read. Greg Jaffe on the Washington DC think tankcultureofperpetualthreatinflation.:/wtpthapo.st/Ry3wOQ Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Nov @PJCrowley @joshrogin Not to mention policy regarding Israel, Armenia, and Greece. Not to mention Menendez is a total sleazebag ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Nov @DCMorningCall Luntz is one of the most overrated gurus out there .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Nov How can journalists accept Karl Rove's dueling views? Romney is going to win by a significant margin - but Sandy likely doomed him too???
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Nov There's a reason why nobody liked Gigi Georges in her grad school days .... what an embarrassment to Hillary Clinton!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Nov Guarantee that one of those Ryan advisors spinning his post-defeat plans is Dan Senor. The rise of this douchebag is an unexplainable event
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Nov For all those screaming bloody murder about Benghazi -- why weren't these same questions asked after 3000 died on U.S. soil on another 9/11?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Nov @hareme2 @RBReich I'm actually a strong Democrat. But Reich has been hammering Romney as out of touch plutocrat for months. Not demonizing?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Nov @RBReich You do realize you have spent the last five months demonizing Romney, right? But I guess that's OK .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Nov Looking forward to tweeting what all the foreign policy losers associated with the Romney campaign will be doing next come Wednesday morning
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Nov Does anyone really care what @sulliview thinks? The NY Times Public Editor is a joke. Never seen more navel self-gazing in my life. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Oct @ktumulty Doubt it. Hagel burned a lot of bridges in NE -- and the type of voter he attracts is already a core Kerrey base voter ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct RT @jonathanweisman: Hey sms@gopmessage.com, not cool texting my daughter your little hit piece. I'd like you to stop it.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct Alyssa Mastromonaco sure is getting a lot of face time in these #Sandy White House photos. Tell me again what it is she actually does?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct @jonathanweisman It's not that hard to pick up women if you abuse your position of authority as a doctor to hit on vulnerable patients ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct @ArmsControlWonk Oh, please, you must have someone in mind with this statement. Share!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct @ArmsControlWonk You seem not to be much of a fan of Tom's, eh?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct RT @K8brannen: "Today being a general is like having tenure,"-Tom Ricks./:tnphtation.time.com/2012/10/29/genneraly- mediocre/#ixz2Aga2JB...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct @K8brannen What article?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct RT @davidaxelrod: For all of Boston's bluster, Rove's Crossroads doubles down in NC.It's very much in play.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct @cloverlanemom That makes no sense at all. Why not ask Company X to pull all ads for its products and spend $$ instead on charity gifts?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct @WilliamHartung So long as VA is OK, nobody will care ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct What the hell does Tony Blinken know about disaster response? RT @petesouza: Photo of potus in Sit Room re Sandy: h/b/:pt it.ly/TTt5N0
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct @GlennThrush Then don't mock someone else for doing same. Alec may be a boor, but he wasn't whining or complaining in that tweet ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct People -- Election Day is ONE WEEK AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct @GlennThrush Cast that stone only f you have never checked into a hotel during a power outage. Doubt it ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Oct So Mitt's going to be in a pretzel explaining his FEMA position now. Looking forward to seeing how his groupie @jrubinblogger spin this one
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Oct RT @joshrogin: When she heard Bill got caught in Sandy in New York, Hillary said, "Who's Sandy?" #toosoon?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Oct RT @ksadjadpour: Imagine experiencing Sandy every single day for 19 months straight, with no end in sight. #Syria
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Oct @GlennThrush But not in touch with O'Malley or Cuomo. Hmmm, I wonder why .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Oct Once again @JRubinBlogger illustrates my point she is one of the dumbest women alive. Seems to think basic math is trying to fool us all.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Oct RT @MichaelSLinden: 8 swing state polls out today. Romney leads is exactly none of them.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Oct @GlennThrush No -- @jrubinblogger was a mediocre lawyer who decided that becoming a crazy right wing hack was the right career move ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Oct @GlennThrush RCP gives space on its site to a lot of conservative wack jobs. Good for checking poll summaries, otherwise useless. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Oct Would John McCain be happier if Powell endorsed Romney? What then would that say about John McCain -- whom Powell refused to endorse in 08?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Oct @politicalwire You may wish to clarify that Obama made that remark in a CAMPAIGN debate for his Senate seat, not on the U.S. Senate floor.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Oct I think his family should investigate whether John Sununu has dementia. It's long past time for this old geezer to step aside .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Oct @ArmsControlWonk So tell us who is the problem then.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Oct Right wingers need to chill on the Lena Dunham ad. For one, she's a bit homely looking. She's probably not getting much action anyway ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Oct Maybe @anthropocon should just focus on having a first time period. Being a 40 year old virgin must be really sad and pathetic ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Oct @SangerNYT Didn't Reuters already report this "news" a day ago?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Oct RT @EliLake: If anyone has any nominations for my 90 under 90 up and coming game-changers. Get at me.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Oct RT @CrowleyTIME: Take 2: Do we think Portman on the ticket might have been enough to tip OH--and thus the race--to Romney?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Oct @ArmsControlWonk I'm sure Lugar is enjoying this week. That said, all of his miserable Committee staff will still be fired by Corker ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Oct @PKBruening Hmmm, why should I care about the pathetic thoughts of a loser salesman by day who fancies himself a conservative intellectual?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Oct Is anyone really surprised that Colin Powell has endorsed Obama again?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Oct @jstrevino Whatever asshole. Enjoy beating yourself off tonight since that is the only form of intimacy you enjoy, based off your photo ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Oct @jstrevino Well, that's because I didn't bother looking at your tweets. You're right, I was wrong. Turns out you are a religious zealot.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Oct @RobertZarateDC @jstrevino Ah, whining about the media. Typical rants from loser neo-cons. When was the last time either of you got laid?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Oct So when will someone do us the favor of getting rid of Sarah Palin and the rest of her white trash family? What utter useless garbage .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Oct @gregpmiller The more important question is why Brennan hired press flack Nick Shapiro as his "senior advisor" ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Oct @ArmsControlWonk My point is something's fucked up when a freshman Senator is in line to chair a Committe that was a big deal at one time.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Oct What a joke for SFRC that a junior member like Corker set to take charge. P.S. Also, nobody seems to like Stacie ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Oct Good piece by @joshrogin on imminent Corker ascendancy at For Rel Committee. Everyone glad Lugar staff will be given their pink slips .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Oct Didn't John Kiriakou worked for John Kerry on his SFRC committee staff? Stunned that no news reports on his plea deal mentioned this! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Oct RT @JWGOP: For those electoral college junkies: imagine if GOP doesn't fix Hispanic problem. 8 years move TX, AZ, CO, FL, NC blue. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Oct @politicalwire I presume @jodikantor is all over this ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Oct Despite her denials, she clearly included Jake Sullivan on that list. Other guesses? Matt Spence, Cheryl Mills, and Ben Rhodes ..... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Oct But @brooks_rosa never identified those people she thinks are political hacks in important foreign policy positions. Here are some guesses.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Oct Two former @CNAS interns are now DAS- equivalents in the Administration. Does that count as qualified expertise for @brooks_rosa ?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Oct into OSD Policy at the beginning of the Obama Administration.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Oct First, it's rich for @brooks_rosa to complain of cronyism in hiring. Her mentor, Michele Flournoy, imported her ENTIRE @cnas staff (1/2) Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Oct So @brooks_rosa may wish to put the furor stirred up by her little blog post behind her. But not so fast ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct @Jonah_Blank So you don't care who wins? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct Note to NBC News: Richard Haas is one of the more trite and anodyne foreign policy commentators out there. No there there. Don't book him
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct Hey Tagg, here's your chance to take a swing! #pieceofshit #spoiled #nepotism #nogoodrichkid
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct I will give credit to @brooks_rosa for this -- she nailed the cliquish habits of Donilon and McDonough in calling meetings by name only ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct RT @GlennThrush: The split screen is not President Obama's friend... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct RT @LarryKorb: Romney mistaken on Mali, though I think we're all just amazed he's heard of Mali.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct Guessing Mitt Romney couldn't locate Mali on a map to save his life .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct Never tire of Rachel Maddow ads in front of the Hoover Dam or at a wind farm. Shows how we libs are so less superficial than Fox viewers ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct I'm hoping that, in a second Obama term, @DrVMDS is appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Hotness.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct RT @K8brannen: The night when too many people are tweeting to have time to read any tweets ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct @MiekeEoyang Fair enough. That's a good point.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct @emilycadei This is a foreign policy debate. How would a Cuba question NOT be appropriate? #debate #Cuba
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct @MiekeEoyang Come on, I expected better of you. @jrubinblogger is CRAZY unhinged while @noonanjo is an overweight paid Romney shill
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct @SlaughterAM Why do you assume this is issue for women alone? Dads today want life balance too. But you lose that if you take hi- powered gig
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct Until @mikeallen presents proof he has actually been on a date, please spare us readers your "lessons" from dating ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct Let's put it this way: only chance @brooks_rosa has for future govt gig is if her patron Flournoy becomes SecDef. That's now less likely! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct People @brooks_rosa throws under the bus: Tom Donilon, Denis McDonough, Ben Rhodes, Derek Chollet, and Jake Sullivan. Great job!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Oct Just read the piece in Foreign Policy by @brooks_rosa Wow. Just wow. Now I know you can go to Yale Law School and still be an idiot ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Oct @brithume @RobertZarateDC Umm, John Bolton never really paid much attention to CIA reports, period. He thought he was intel analyst maestro
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Oct @mikeallen If your followers wanted sports updates, they would follow @espn and @cnnsi -- quit pretending to be an athletic jock- you're not
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Oct @K8brannen Rest of article, though, makes clear HRC has little regard for central thesis behind the @slaughteram article ..... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Oct Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz going for that classic "Medusa" look on @ThisWeek this morning? Good Lord ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Oct Yes @jrubinblogger the White House is so savvy that they leaked a story for political advantage they then promptly DENIED. #Uaredumbasrocks
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Oct @RobertZarateDC Did you learn those deep insights on Iran policy working for that noted foreign policy heavyweight @jefffortenberry ???
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Oct @ArmsControlWonk @MicahZenko As in holding a spoon and feeding it to your waiting mouth? Or something less erotic? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Oct Maybe dumb @noonanjo needs to learn how to read. There's likely no truth to the @nytimes story -- no benefit for Obama WH to negotiate now.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Oct Blame Issa for Libya disclosures, but focus on staff too. Larry Brady is his staff director. Douchebag Kurt Bardella also likely involved. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Oct RT @jackshafer: A faddish phrase worth demolition: "Best practices." Means nothing.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Oct @MicahZenko @armscontrolwonk Well established that Toria Nuland has no shame.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Oct RT @politicoroger: Obama probably should not have done "Romnesia" himself. That's what vice presidents are for. Presidents should be big.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Oct Umm, yeah, @slaughteram it's obvious HRC was talking about you. Everyone is tired of hearing about your pity party - please go away now.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Oct Did @strobetalbott open a new Twitter account just in time for launch of his campaign to succeed HRC as SecState in Obama 2nd term? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Oct I hate taking the Metro late at night, if only because there are so many loud and pretentious conversations. People, shut the fuck up!!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Oct Has rich kid Tagg Romney ever even been in a fight? What a piece of shit. He needs to tell his mom to lose about 15 pounds .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct When Obama said he consulted with his national security team, he meant Donilon, McDonough, Brennan and Rhodes. If you were wondering ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct RT @TheFix: "I don't look at my pension, it's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long." -- Obama. #debates
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct RT @samhusseini: Gee, Mitt, why did your family go to Mexico? A: to continue polygamy. Btw - why didn't they learn Spanish?? #debate Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct Mitt Romney now putting on his "I am talking to a black person" voice ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct Romney totally dodging this question, talking about everything BUT foreign policy, Is he nervous John Bolton will give him a wedgie? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct @EliLake Because she is skeptical of the neocon agenda you hawk so fervently? #debate2012
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct Good foreign policy question. Haven't heard a reporter ever ask this question of Mittens ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct RT @GlennThrush: Binders full of women might be first real gaffe Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct Ms. Katherine Fenton is the first attractive questioner tonight.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct Are all people from Long Island this freaky looking?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct America was praying that a fistfight was about to break out there ..... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct @MEaglen Another hypocritical Republican. I thought you all believed federal spending does not promote jobs? Nice shilling there though
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct Obama with a beatific smile this evening. He learned from the last debate .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct RT @FranklinFoer: I saw that kid who asked the question in American Pie 7.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct Whoever Saturday Night Live used to play the big chick from Wilson Phillips -- they can use her again to play Candy Crowley this weekend.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct @Cirincione The Romney campaign shakes in fear that you are doing just that. #notreally
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct RT @ezraklein: Am I the only one who thinks a town hall debate made up of decided, highly interested voters would be better? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct @JOssoff Then I guess you are the one with way too much time on your hands .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct @JOssoff Should I take your fascination with my identity as a compliment?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct @danielgins This is Twitter -- no holds barred. I'm sick of the lies she spouts ever day. If she's offended, she can tone down her nastiness
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct @danielgins Sorry if you are an apologist for her, but @jrubinbloggerblogger is a vile human being. And you've seen her photo, no?#buttugly
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Oct For his sake, I hope the husband of @jrubinblogger has a mistress. The thought of having sex with her would make any man want to puke ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Oct @jaketapper That's my point. Ultimately, his importance comes down to his family lineage. And that's not right ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Oct @AshEChandler Hey intern girl, you need to learn to mind your own business. By the way, has Daddy sent you the check for this month yet?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Oct @jaketapper One is a U.S. Senator and a former OMB Director. The other is a state Attorney General for a tiny state. No real comparison.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Oct @JOssoff My friends call me Batman.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Oct @AshEChandler Who the hell are you and why would I care about what you think? Nice poseur picture there - was that your junior yr in Paris?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Oct Tell me again what journalistic talents Chelsea Clinton possesses that inspired NBC News to hire her as a correspondent? #nepotismsucks Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Oct @jonathanweisman Hatch only said that because he just got re- elected and doesn't have to worry about reelection for another 4 yrs, if ever.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Oct Newsflash to @whoisbenchang -- no one cares about you or your tweets now that you sold out to the whores at the Podesta Group. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Oct @JacksonDiehl @RobertZarateDC "We will restore strength" The Romney campaign's answer to all FP arguments #meaninglessBS
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Oct Folk, Ben Rhodes was involved in the prep for the first debate too. If you didn't notice, it included foreign policy questions too ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Oct RT @alexwagner: Actually laughing out loud as Ed Gillespie tries to make the case that AEI is a "non-partisan organization." #Chortles Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Oct How does @jaketapper justify bringing Beau Biden on his show? Other than being the Veep's son, how is he different from 49 other state AGs?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct RT @DraperRobert: OK that last Raddatz "as a man" question makes me want to take back my best-moderator-ever plaudit, almost Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct @Cirincione Where can I get a job as head of a major foundation and still get to play hooky for baseball games?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct When @noonanjo is looking to get laid, there's only phone call he makes: @jrubinblogger She's the only hope this overweight slob has ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct RT @YahooFinance: Biden smart to directly address the camera and people?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct RT @TheFix: Why this debate is so good: Biden and Ryan clearly hate one another. #vpdebate
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct @EliLake Yeah, but he also wanted to pay for them, unlike your ideological comrades ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct RT @MattNesto: Martha: equal opportunity hammerer. I love it #VPDebate
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct Sorry if this is rude, but how on earth did Martha Raddatz squire three husbands -- all of whom rather successful? She's not a looker .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct Sure. Why don't you start by describing how he is in bed? @AnnieLowrey: Everyone ready to gossipsnark about Ezra? Good. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct @ezraklein If so, why the hell should we pay attention to your tweets?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct Hearing thru the grapevine that Michelle Flournoy is hosting an Obama fundraiser with natsec Dems next week. She really wants to be SecDef!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct Lazy reporters should stop hailing Biden's foreign policy staff. It's one man deep: Tony Blinken. The rest are paper pushers. #getreal Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Oct @joshrogin Maybe Weiner can tweet about the movie this evening ....

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Oct 12 Wow @blainr really needed to tell everyone it was his birthday today - - five consecutive days in @mikeallen 's rag! Is he five years old? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Oct 12 MT @davidaxelrod: Brutal summer yields to seasonable temps, just as election looms. Is it real, or rigged data from Obama Weather Service?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Oct 12 MT @BrendanNyhan: Turning off Twitter for debate. Journos - why you should too: /htp:/bit.ly/SCL17G
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Oct 12 RT @TheOnion: Biden Implores Obama To
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Oct 12 @hillhulse Only if both Members are in Leadership in their respective Chambers -- and that's still a long walk across the Capitol ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Oct 12 @hillhulse But it would be totally believable if it was a senior House member!!!!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Oct 12 Someone should tell @jrubinblogger if she wants more followers, she shouldn't post her photo. Seriously, babies grimace at that mug shot. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Sep 12 @Jonah_Blank So, if your theory is correct, I look forward to hear the cases where lobbying $$ influenced your decisions as a Senate staffer
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Sep 12 @Jonah_Blank I didn't realize Ed Rendell and Howard Dean trended neocon ..... #MEK
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Sep 12 So @AmbassadorRice is being unfairly attacked, but that's why Tom Donilon stays off the Sunday shows. Who do you think asked Rice to go on?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Sep 12 @Cirincione Romney is being rejected for his ideas, but they're his piss poor economic memes. Nobody's following foreign policy ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Sep 12 Is @annielowrey going for the pretentious "I'm so important I get driven everywhere" look for her new avatar?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Sep 12 Michael O'Hanlon proves again that he's biggest schmuck in DC. He brags to multiple reporters that he's a "close friend" of David Petraeus.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Sep 12 Instead of tweeting non-stop about Bibi and Mitt, maybe @colinkahl can shed light on tension between Tom Donilon and his ex- boss, M Flournoy
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Sep 12 @mattyglesias Sure, if you consider interns and junior LCs are the ones reading it ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Sep 12 @lauraevansfox5 I had a pseudo-crush on you back in the day and was just disappointed that you would date such a tool! View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Sep 12 No matter how much Mitt Romney spins on foreign policy "strength", he's a joke so long as ex-intern Alex Wong is primary FP staffer. #joke Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Sep 12 Does anyone ask why Hillary Clinton relies on a young wunderkid as her foreign policy alter ego? When will press write about Jake Sullivan?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Sep 12 @MarkLeibovich If so, it would be a douchebag fest of all time ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Sep 12 @ArmsControlWonk That's true for most every think tank and research organization. When you get establishment cred, the blogging goes away.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Sep 12 @peterwsinger Hey, who knows, maybe you'll finally get that Administration gig in a second term!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Sep 12 @GlobeBender
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Sep 12 @BillGertz Don't worry, fat boy. Looks like we will have four more years of "intel failures" to enjoy, since your boy Mitt is capsizing ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Sep 12 RT @GlennThrush: If Obama was worried about getting the base going, and he is, this mighta just done it
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Sep 12 Hearing that Shawn Brimley is returning to @CNAS with a big promotion in tow. Heady stuff for a former intern there ..... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Sep 12 RT @pourmecoffee: If the Romney campaign were the Salt Lake Olympics, they'd be calling Romney in to run it about now.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Sep 12 Nothing like Afghan policy chats to spark a office romance: nyti.ms/QSdGc8 Some awful cheesy quotes from Vikram and Ashley though.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Sep 12 Instead of giving bad foreign policy advice to Mitt Romney, wouldn't Rich Williamson spend his time better by losing some weight? #fatfuck
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Sep 12 Today reminds the Romney team why you shouldn't entrust your entire foreign policy prep to Lanhee Chen and his law school buddy Alex Wong ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Sep 12 @emilycadei Many of us will be quite happy to see the "Three Amigos" and their ego-fueled neoconservative politics disappear ... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep 12 @markknolller I doubt this sense of outrage will stop Leon from cashing in on his own tell-all memoirs when he leaves office ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Sep 12 RT @DLeonhardt: Jimmy Carter now holds the record for longest post-presidency, surpassing Hoover. MT @kairyssdal: theatln.tc/Sw9X7t
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep 12 RT @ethanklapper: White House: "Tomorrow, the Vice President will meet with senior advisors." --> thtp:/witpic.com/aswlo7
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep 12 @FitzpatrickIISS The Israelis have been known to bluff/play mind games a few times in the past, no? Nobody knows what they will do ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep 12 @NinaHachigian Great new photo! Glad you followed my advice ;-)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Sep 12 @FitzpatrickIISS And your evidence for said conclusion is?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep 12 RT @greenfield64: If "literally" is a drinking game, everyne's going to be smashed by the end of this speech
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep 12 @joshrogin The real question is why is Tim Palwenty a foreign policy advisor to Mitt Romney? #WTF
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep 12 RT @djrothkopf: John Kerry--running again. This time for Secretary of State. Outcome will be the same however. Bloviatissimus. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep 12 When folks like @jonah_blank say they "worked" on the Obama campaign, do they admit they were only in casts of hundreds on "taskforces"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep 12 @ezraklein No way White House names John Kerry if Scott Brown loses this fall. That's a ticket right back to Senate for Brown ... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep 12 Umm, someone should tell John Kerry that PM Netanyahu may not be the most effective advocate for Barack Obama ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep 12 RT @CrowleyTIME: But for 68,000 votes in Ohio, President John Kerry might be here to anoint his successor, John Edwards. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Sep 12 @RachelKleinfeld Sorry, but not everyone wants to become a careerist brown noser like the people who join the @TrumanProject
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Sep 12 @BillGertz Is Bill Clinton also responsible for your nonexistent sex life? #pathetic
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Sep 12 Who are the two blondes flanking Chelsea? And is it just me, or has she put on some weight?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Sep 12 RT @ezraklein: Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Or about 1993- 2000.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep 12 @chucktodd Another major difference? About 150 pounds or so ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Sep 12 RT @JacksonDiehl: Martin O'Malley has the luck to follow Deval Patrick, and thereby is shown to be not a rock star, but a stiff #DNC2012
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep 12 The @FP_Magazine Top 50 lists are a complete joke. Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow in Top 30 influential Dems? @jamiemfly #24 for GOP? #WTF
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep 12 RT @JamesFallows: Sorry to learn V Jarrett has her own Secret Service detail /b:/pthit.ly/Q1p43a by me
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Sep 12 RT @timmathews: Just an FYI, if you retweet me, that's an endorsement, regardless of what your profile says.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep 12 Even more alarming? She's Condi Rice's conduit for back channel foreign policy advice? Hey Condi, ever heard of Tom
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep 12 So we learn today that Valerie Jarrett has Secret Service protection? Really? Did Karen Hughes or Karl Rove have the same? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep 12 Doug Band = douchebag. Nothing more needs to be said ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep 12 @EliLake Fair enough then. They're two douchebags who deserve one another .... #yale
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep 12 @EliLake Leverett and her bozo husband are complete jokes. Wonder how they scratch out a living. But why the slam on #yale? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep 12 @CJamesCervantes I'm surprised you would be wiling to say that in public ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Sep 12 I'm a fan of Obama, but his continuing reliance and dependence upon a vacuous cipher like Valerie Jarrett concerns me. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Aug 12 @Cirincione It's the Friday before Labor Day. She probably just surfed the Net all day like the rest of us ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug 12 RT @Austan_Goolsbee: this was the part in 1992 when Clinton/gore started playing that fleetwood Mac song
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Aug 12 @evan1867 Still not sure why that is the province of the FBI. More like the job of the House Ethics Committee ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug 12 @djrothkopf Yes, but what most mainstream analysts don't understand is the hatred the neocon/nationalist wing of GOP has for her ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug 12 RT @FranklinFoer: Vapidly tweeting about the convention is so much better than blogging it. #itgetsbetter #2008memories Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug 12 @blakehounshell Your shock and outrage that someone is using a pseudonym on the Internet is touching. Do you also believe in Santa Claus?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Aug 12 @blakehounshell Why should anyone really care what a low-level flack like @marieharf thinks about Romney's foreign policy? She's paid for it
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug 12 @howardfineman Nah. Just that they're not the generic Ken and Barbie they appear to be ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug 12 Is Ann Romney tipsy? #seriously
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug 12 RT @BenLaBolt: So Congressman Davis got duped in '08, then voted with the President 95 percent of the time? Got it.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug 12 Hey journalists -- all 5000 of you on Twitter don't need to make the exact same observation on every convention happening 5000 times ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug 12 Everyone in the Senate will be glad when the McCain-Lieberman- Graham bromance trips on USG tab comes to an end this year. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug 12 One staffer is Vance Serchuk, whose short stature is belied by his Napoleonic complex and overbearing ego. Other staffer is 20 something.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug 12 So @joelieberman is traveling to Europe in early Sept. He retires in 3 months, but needs to take two staffers at taxpayer expense. WTF? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Aug 12 @TheFix @ezraklein Umm, MOST people, including voters, are not wasting their time with these infomercials , networks or not. #gop2012
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Aug 12 One lingering question from Galillee Gate: Stunned no one asked why it was FBI's business to investigate horseplay by Members of Congress?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Aug 12 RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, my body fat is around 6-8%, which will also be Mitt's tax rate under my new plan for America.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Aug 12 @FitzpatrickIISS What does "human security threat" mean? #NKorea
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Aug 12 Per my earlier tweet on Evelyn Farkas, this seals the case --she has a Wikipedia page: bp:/thit.ly/KAemgz Hmm, I wonder who drafted that Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Aug 12 @CrowleyTIME In Sununu's world, it means that Obama walks like a confident black man. And we can't have that ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Aug 12 And what's with another of Flouronoy's former junior @cnas interns getting a plum slot? When will the nepotism at the Pentagon end? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Aug 12 Good scoop from @joshrogin today. Few people more gratingly ambitious than Evelyn Farkas -- not sure what Derek Chollet sees in her.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug 12 @mvallonesta Thanks. I like Obama too, but ultimate hypocrisy for campaign hacks to allege he was so experienced in foreign policy in 2008.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug 12 If the Obama campaign steeped in foreign policy, why did they hire a low level ex-bureaucrat like @marieharf as their natsec "spokeswoman"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug 12 Obama hack @marieharf spreading nonsense that GOP ticket has no foreign policy experience, ignoring fact McCain said same thing re Obama ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug 12 @marcambinder But do Presidential road trips really count as "out of the bubble"? Short conversations with locals d/n offer much insight ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 Hey @Morning_Joe and @JoeNBC -- @dansenor is a staff member on the Romney campaign. Why is he still appearing on your show's roundtables?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 @jonathanchait Please stop retweeting your exchange with another person on Twitter. The rest of us could care less .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 Paul Ryan is going to have @dansenor as his primary foreign policy advisor? Did Liz Cheney put on too much weight to bear rigors of trail?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 How come today's @nytimes mini-profile of @StateDept Toria Nuland didn't ask this question:"How do you find Bob Kagan physically attractve?"
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 @RichardGrenell I guess @AmbJohnBolton 's work was done when W decided his confirmation wasn't worth fighting for ..... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 @MarkLeibovich Come on, we all know Tim Pawlenty is having a massive breakdown right now even as he keeps a stiff upper lip in public ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 Based on her dumb tweets, Obama campaign is in trouble if it relies on @marieharf to share national security TPs. Isn't that Rhodes' job? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 I'm going to say what @RichardGrenell should tweet: Romney campaign exploiting his former boss, @AmbJohnBolton - but won't give him a job.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 @djrothkopf Your wife is a 1992 college grad? -- my respect for you, Messier Rothkopf, just went up. Rocking the cradle and all .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 I'm guessing @Joe_Nye would be a frontrunner for the"Most Pretentious Twitter Avatar" award. It's the chin resting on the fist, natch ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 @dgjackson @richardgrenell But when it's overflow crowds for Obama, it's just because he's a superficial celebrity, right? #RomneyRyan2012
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 @RichardGrenell Agree. @JRubinBlogger should be there. Ugly people need to be represented too ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 @djrothkopf If Romney wins, watch for an ISR strike during the transition. No one will be in charge in DC.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Aug 12 @jonathanchait Safe to say Orszag only shares the "Misguided" attribute with Ryan there; he thinks Ryan is handsome because his hair is real
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 Hey @RichardGrenell -- everyone knows @RosannaLopez101 is right. You got FIRED from the Romney campaign because you're gay! #dumbass
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 MT @peterwsinger Best part of Ryan nomination, which all can agree on: @sarahpalinusa just became even more irrelevant, if that was possible
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @ArmsControlWonk Well, conservatives were upset. It's just that, in Rubin's fevered imagination, Obama personally wrote that NIE.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @ArmsControlWonk Rubin is nothing more than the crazy cat lady who sat on the park bench. Instead, she now has a blog with @washingtonpost
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @ArmsControlWonk Agree. @jrubinblogger is an embarrassment, especially for @washingtonpost which made the mystifying decision to hire her.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @ArmsControlWonk I'm in "govt relations". When I say I "work the GOP side", that's just where most of my contacts are due to my field.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @ArmsControlWonk I don't believe I have made no secret of my lefty leanings, although I do enjoy skewering incompetent Dems as needed.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 RT @ColinKahl: I feel so much better "@stephenfhayes: Ryan has been receiving fopo/nat sec briefings from Elliott Ab ms,Kim&FedKg ”
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 I guess @RichardGrenell has nothing better to do than harass reporters for alleged pro-Obama tweets. Guess his sex life must be pathetic .
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 MT @CrowleyTIME: Nightmare for Dems: Romney wins, economy rebounds at last. 2014-2016 GOP blowouts, 2nd term conservative rampage.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @djrothkopf Twitter or not, people would still gossip about Zakaria. Technology not that relevant here ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 To my fellow Dems: Critiquing Romney and Ryan on no foreign policy credentials? Obama not all that different in 08, and SFRC d/n matter.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @jeffzeleny Don't recall a similar statement made about Palin four years ago ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 MT @AlecMacGillis: Across the capital, in Hill basements + Ballston towers, Young Republican interns awoke thinking, one day, it could be me
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @RichardGrenell If you want to be a foreign policy spokesman for a Republican presidential campaign, you have to be straight. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 RT @davidmwessel: A novel debate idea: Obama v Ryan (young wonks) vs. Romney v. Biden (older, fewer facts)
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @ed_kilgore TPaw has really embarrassed himself with his obsequious ass-kissing in recent years. He needs to get out of politics.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 RT @wexler: Fun fact: Ryan is first former Tortilla Coast waiter to be nominated for Vice President by major political party. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @KennethBaer Maybe, but it's hard to paint Ryan as a wealthy heir if he worked part time at the Tortilla Coast! #Romney
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @Markhalperin What do you mean "no vet probs"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @KennethBaer Sounds like you're a douchebag dad .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Aug 12 @RichardGrenell How does MSNBC justify having Dan Senor on Morning Joe then?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Aug 12 @joshrogin Neither political party trusts Zakaria. He will never get Sec State, scandal or not. #toosoon
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Aug 12 @djrothkopf Zakaria's insufferable arrogance has rankled many along the way. He is getting his just desserts ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Aug 12 So @NinaHachigian is an attractive woman -- so why does she have such a bizarre looking (and terrible) Twitter avatar? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Aug 12 @armscontrolwonk Your restraint in going after Morrison is admirable. He really needs to learn how to use a condom properly. @repmiketurner
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Aug 12 @ArmsControlWonk @cirincione Honestly, fellas, I think you both are clutching at straws here. Go after misguided policy, not tiny nits.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Aug 12 @Cirincione @armscontrolwonk Is it plagiarism if the same staffer wrote both speeches for both members at different times? Or just laziness?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Aug 12 So @RichardGrenell is a tough guy on Twitter, but when nobody Alex Wong tells him to stuff it on his 3rd day on Romney campaign, he says yes
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Aug 12 My respect for Katie Ledecky went down after I found out her uncle is Jonathan Ledecky. I suspect @lauraevansfox5 would agree with me ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Aug 12 My friends at NSC laugh when ill-informed lawyers write blog items about how they know it all after two years of govt. service @brooks_rosa
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Aug 12 @djrothkopf I share Bloomberg's views on gun control, but hard to call him courageous -- last time I checked, NYC is not a NRA hotbed.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 @CokeHobbit @pourmecoffee It's racist to call a black person stupid without any other evidence than the fact that he disagrees with you ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 @tricityjdw Let me know when you lose your virginity, douchebag. Some of us have better things to do than be on Twitter 24/7 .. unlike you.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 @arenda @Cirncione Neither do ceremonies to honor Pearl Harbor or anything else that happened 50+ years ago .... #Hiroshima View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 @tricityjdw Maybe so. But I'm certainly not a pathetic loser who jumps into a Twitter conversation between two other people ... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 @yeselson Why the hate for Karl? As opposed to any other reporter in the biz? If you want to hate on someone, @lukerussert is a good choice
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 If Obama prefers closest aides be competitive jock types, as @politico claims, why does he count Tom Donilon and Cass Sunstein as top aides?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 RT @davidmwessel: RT @ianbremmer In 1974, 3% of retiring members of Congress became lobbyists. Today, 50% of Senators, 42% of House Reps
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 Started following @RichardGrenell Romney campaign getting best of all worlds-they rebuked him and he's still tweeting as if he's on campaign
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 @tricityjdw Good point. No need for you to be anonymous because no one knows who the fuck you are in any case.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Aug 12 Obama has grown to deeply dislike Mitt? Hmm, wasn't that the plot line for a West Wing episode when Bartlett was running for reelection?

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Aug 12 @RichardGrenell You got kicked off the
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Aug 12 @RichardGrenell I wasn't really asking for a conversation with you, douchebag. Say hi to Groombridge for me ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Aug 12 @pourmecoffee A bit rich you calling Fox News racist after calling Clarence Thomas stupid b/c he doesn't agree with you. Still a virgin?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Aug 12 It's pathetic how @RichardGrenell carries on the fight for his fellow Republicans after they declared him non-grata because he 's gay, no?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Aug 12 @marcambinder Why do you change your avatar photo every week?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Aug 12 @David_Shorr Yeah, Mark is a good Dem, but Ian is a former Helms hack who worked in the Bush Admin. for a few years. Mika is the airhead.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug 12 It's telling Mitt Romney depends on @dansenor -- a sleazy press flack -- as his Middle East policy advisor. I would take @colinkahl any day Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug 12 Understand that Romney had Ian Brzezinski join him for Poland stop. His first choice, Mika, was apparently unavailable.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Jul 12 Romney's "senior" foreign policy adviser is Alex Wong. His key foreign policy credential is a State Department internship. #nojoke Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jul 12 Once again, @JRubinBlogger embarasses herself: every Administration, not just O, has refused to declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jul 12 All you need to know about Romney campaign is major league tool @dansenor is his Israel muse. @campbell_brown couldn't have done better?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul 12 @BillGertz And you are the paragon example of right wing hackery .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul 12 RT @sportsguy33: I can't believe Obama let the first lady this close to Tony Parker.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jul 12 Don't tell @annielowrey but the women are fantastic! MT @ezraklein: Hey tweeps -- in Rio de Janeiro. Any advice on where to eat/what to do?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul 12 Back in those wild and wooly days of post- invasion Baghdad, Dan Senor was apparently quite the Mack Daddy in the Green Zone. #suprisedtoo
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul 12 Hearing from my friends at the NSC that Tom Donilon only selects young attractive women to staff positions in his front office. What's up?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul 12 @ColinKahl Cheap shot. You must have missed this morning's Post article on Obama's luxury fundraisers in downtown DC. Not far from @cnas !
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul 12 RT @ConnellyAL: RT @ianbremmer: if Chick-Fil-A were, say, @ShakeShack, then we'd be in a much more serious quandry. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul 12 @nukes_of_hazard @amrscontrolwonk Really? Doubt Pakistan or the DPRK are going to snag many medals .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jul 12 @MEaglen Why are you retweeting a tweet recommending that people follow you -- to people who already follow you? Are you that vain?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jul 12 Anyone know if Romney brought along any foreign policy types for this grand tour abroad? If not, he could use them! #romneyshambles Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jul 12 Thanks @mikeallen for telling your readers THREE days in a row that some spoiled 6 year old is having a birthday party today. #whogivesafuck
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jul 12 Need another reason to oppose Mitt Romney this fall? HIs "policy director", Lanhee Chen ,appears to be a jackass. b/:pthit.ly/KFCxhU Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jul 12 @NPTRevCon That's quite the collection of pretentious jerk-offs .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jul 12 @politicalwire Dude, nobody who follows

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jul 12 2) Gelb's new crush is young Derek Chollet, who he fancies the Holbrooke for this new century. Time to hang it up, Les .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jul 12 Two thoughts from Les Gelb's typically overwrought review in the @nytimes today: 1) He can't let go of his old flame Holbrooke; (1 of 2) Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Jul 12 @AbuSnuffy Excellent thought there! Toria is a right winger, but she's not bad on the eyes ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jul 12 Was Huma Abedin wearing beer goggles the night she met Anthony Wiener? Almost as bad a pairing as Samantha Powers and Cass Sunstein ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jul 12 Trying to figure out who is the bigger apologist for the Iranian regime: @barbaraslavin1 or @rezamarashi It's a close race, folks!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jul 12 @ArmsControlWonk Does this mean you're dumping said wife?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jul 12 Paterno family hasn't gotten memo they're just mediocre white trash who profited off a football coach/protector of sex predator. #PennState
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jul 12 @KennethBaer So how long of a "graceful" interval are you planning before you cash in the big bucks on your OMB service? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jul 12 @billgertz You either don't know or ignore that EOP staff includes lots of career staff, like OMB personnel. Not just top WH aides.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jul 12 RT @BenLaBolt: If you "retire retroactively" do you return your income and profits from that period?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jul 12 RT @ConnellyAL: Apropos of nothing, Kurt Campbell has a very distinctive briefing style.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jul 12 MT @Doctrine_Man: Million-$$$$ question. RT @emptywheel So why Obama team only knows hardass on the election trail, not on governance trail?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jul 12 Writing in your LinkedIn profile that your career objective is to be a "national security leader" when you just turned 30 makes you a douche
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jul 12 @FitzpatrickIISS My friends call me ..... Batman.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jul 12 @FitzpatrickIISS Your concern for the health of the British governing system is touching ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jul 12 @dpletka Worried that you won't get a job in yet another GOP Administration? #DC
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jul 12 @FitzpatrickIISS As of August 2008, yes, he was. And he had exactly two folks on his campaign payroll who knew foreign policy. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jul 12 @armscontrolnow You folks really want to get into a debate with a parody Twitter feed? #armstreaty
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jul 12 @morningdefense As a former Hill staffer, I can attest that nobody on the Hill reads those boring reports .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jul 12 @armscontrolnow Because religious evangelicals are logically genuine authorities on the 2nd Amendment #gimmeabreak #armstreaty
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jul 12 James Mann's The Obamaians is a great read. Lots of insider dirt on McDonough, Lippert, Rhodes, Holbrooke and many others .. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jul 12 @FitzpatrickIISS How many foreign policy advisors did then Senator Barack Obama have in 2008? One, if I recall. #whatsyourpoint?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul 12 @peterwsinger Are the Hollywood circles you are trying to break into any better?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul 12 And, of course, @mikeallen demonstrated he is a master brown-noser by referencing his boss' kid's birthday multiple times. #nbodycares Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul 12 Thanks @mikeallen for informing us FIVE times this week that whoever the hell is Evan Kaufman had a birthday today. #essentialknowledge
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Jul 12 @ColinKahl Would anyone seriously expect Barak to answer that question: "No, he is not." #getreal
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jul 12 @ColinKahl Generally not a good idea to quote or reference Stephen Walt in any way if you wish to maintain your establishment street cred.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jul 12 RT @CJamesCervantes: I remember when I used to want to intern for Stratfor. But then I grew up.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Jul 12 Hearing that Tom Donilon tried to rally the NSC troops last week. Fell flat as a rock with what came off as an Obama re-elect speech. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul 12 Why is Ben Rhodes apologizing for Scott Gration, calling him only a "very direct and candid person"? Would he have said same re John Bolton?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul 12 Since @mikeallen 's life is devoted to sucking up to the self-important types in DC, fair to say he would sided with the Brits on #4thofJuly Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jul 12 @FitzpatrickIISS Nope. Just socially clueless .... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jul 12 Good piece by @elilake on Romney foreign policy operation. Not good sign when your lead "coordinator" cites an internship as selling point.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 @CNSWolfsthal You should probably just move your fucking car. #gloverpark
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 Hearing Tom Donilon addressed the troops at the NSC last week. Proceeded to give them a trite Obama re-election campaign speech. #really?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 @Max_Fisher Trust me, @slaughteram has no idea what's happening in Syria.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 Special Tool of the Week award goes to Jordan Acker, who included in his NYT wedding annncmnt: "He briefs Jane Lute on her daily meetings."
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 Calling the President a "tool" and a former Speaker of the House a "dingbat"? Maybe Palin should pay more attention to her white trash kids
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 I can guarantee you the Obama White House is not pleased with this type of self-promotion. Especially Tom Donilon and Denis McDonough.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 As if all of America is thanking God this man is our Secretary of Defense? Really?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 Anyone else think it a bit presumptuous for Leon Panetta to issue a press release marking his first year anniversary of taking office? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 @CNSWolfsthal Are you some sort of Derek Mitchell groupie?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 Finally read the much buzzed article by @slaughteram So one can have incredible careers w/o making any personal tradeoffs at all? #whoknew?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 12 RT @byoungsmith: Why Scott Gration really resigned /bp/:ht it.ly/LUDvmU by @mtredden. holy cow that's bad
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun 12 Someone at #aspenideas should ask Valerie Jarrett what it is she actually does at the White House #ihavenoideadoyou?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Jun 12 @Cirincione If I recall, @ploughshares gets a ton of dough from corporate bigwigs ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jun 12 Why won't @pourmecoffee apologize for his racist tweet yesterday regarding Clarence Thomas? It has been 24 hours now ..... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jun 12 @joshrogin What happened to Mia's son? #aspenideas
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jun 12 @Cirincione By your logic, then, domestic achievements by George W. Bush were good for U.S. national security ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jun 12 So pathetic must the life of @pourmecoffee be. My guess is he's a 45 year old overweight virgin still living in his parents' basement ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jun 12 So @pourmecoffee writes a slightly racist tweet questioning Clarence Thomas' intelligence and, when called for it, tells you to unfollow him Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jun 12 @JoelAchenbach Don't worry, you're more successful than @joshrogin
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jun 12 @pourmecoffee Some might call that a slightly racist tweet ....

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Jun 12 @joshrogin Doubt it. POTUS already spends enough time in DC with massive egos blowing hot air .... #aspenideas
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jun 12 @shka_marie I'm saving that story for my tell all memoir -- should be a blockbuster. BTW -- what a cute profile pic there ;-) View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jun 12 @emilycadei Newsflash: That's how every single one of those briefings are. Why Congressional oversight of national security is a misnomer.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jun 12 Re today's @washingtonpost on Afghan infighting: what WH officials said about Dick Holbrooke in 2009, they say about Kurt Campbell today.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jun 12 This year will bring an end to the one of the more annoying bromances in recent history: McCain and Lieberman. They should get a room.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jun 12 Looks like whoever is manning the Twitter feed for @CashionsEatPlce needs to learn the difference between "peak" and "peek" ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jun 12 Strangest Twitter feed of a senior Obama foreign policy official? @gottemoeller Can't figure out if one of her interns has hacked into it. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jun 12 RT @byoungsmith: Apparently, when Obama gave his first big Chicago antiwar speech, he was a last-minute replacement for John Mearsheimer
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Jun 12 @Gottemoeller I assume you are aware @senatorlugar is buh bye in six months? No need to kiss up to him or the bunch of jerks on his staff!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jun 12 @SCClemons I can't object to that ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Jun 12 @SCClemons Have you considered the possibility that he did NOT want to make news tonight? #Obama
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jun 12 Was it really necessary for @mcfaul to come all the way to Mexico for the POTUS-Putin meeting? Did any other U.S. Ambassadors do that?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jun 12 Never understood why Obama White House stood by McGurk for so long. He was a GOP tool who clerked for Rehnquist. Why any loyalty to him?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jun 12 @natsecHeather Not disputing you, but why does the "apology tour" meme have so much traction?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jun 12 Did anyone else notice Maureen Dowd's s slam of Germans in yesterday's column on the Sandusky trial? "a good German"? WTF?????
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jun 12 The FP Twitterati 100 is out. Outraged that @FP_Magazine did not include me. You will be hearing from my lawyers! b/:pthit.ly/MJmY4p Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Jun 12 Oh Ben Rhodes, the sad and pathetic life of constantly spinning appears to be getting to you ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jun 12 @SangerNYT Does it say that national security leaks are bad, except when they are delivered on a silver platter to you? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jun 12 @EliLake It's called informed speculation. What 99% of Twitter is ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jun 12 Folks, even if a National Security Advisor wanted to leak, he wouldn't be the one doing the leaking. His staff would #keepyoureyeonbenrhodes
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jun 12 @natsecHeather Because that AUMF really worked out great the last time. #iraq #neoconnonsense
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Jun 12 Gotta imagine Ben Rhodes is lawyering up now that a leak investigation is underway. If anyone in the Obama White House leaked, it was him.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Jun 12 Hey @erin_pelton, nstead of having a White House press flack tweet all the horrible things happening in Syria, maybe you could do something?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun 12 The hiring of @jrubinblogger as a "blogger" even though she spews lies/misinformation is further evidence @washingtonpost in serious decline
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jun 12 Someone should tell @jrubinblogger that Wendy Sherman had nothing to do with February 2011 deal with N. Korea, despite Rubin's recent rant.

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Jun 12 For my most recent follower, no offense, but being a graduate student and calling yourself a "national security expert" is more than amusing Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jun 12 Oh people, we are going to have so much fun with this Brent McGurk confirmation ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jun 12 @ColinKahl @armscontrolwonk Correct. RTing the original tweet exceeded the damm 180 character limit ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jun 12 RT @alexmassie: You can tell @franklinfoer is back at helm of @tnr. They're running a Euro2012 groupblog. I shall be contributing.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun 12 Klein slams Romney associating with Bolton. Ouch: swampland.time.com/2012/06/06/roaew-political- notes/#ixz1x4vLFkF...3d-trip-day-6-a-f
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun 12 If @ambjohnbolton and @jrubinblogger had a love child, that baby would spew the craziest right wing shit ever. BTW - and be super ugly too.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jun 12 @EliLake Obviously, you're too stupid to realize the difference between cyber/sanctions attacks and wars that kill American soldiers #Iran
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Jun 12 Question to my Twitter peeps: who is Mitt Romney's Condoleeza Rice in this campaign? Or, if you're a Democrat, his McDonough/Lippert?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Jun 12 @ska_kongshan I'll ignore that snide comment only because your Twitter profile pic is quite hot there!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jun 12 Hey geniuses, treaties require ratification in the Senate by more than just a "majority" @chipmanj: @joshrogin #IISS_Asia
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jun 12 Hearing Derek Chollet starts at OSD on Monday. Surprised no one has batted an eye that his NSC replacement is a Eliot Cohen neocon protege.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Jun 12 Hey Twitter people -- when you go to a conference, we really don't need tweets every two minutes on what a speaker is saying ... @abedenmark
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 May 12 #Humblebrag #puke MT @peterwsinger: Speaking on US ForeignPolicy . But at #Princeton Reunions, so much of our audience will be drunk.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 May 12 Is @mikeallen now going to "Welcome to Washington" every doofus summer intern who sends him an email request?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 May 12 Now that Derek Chollet has been confirmed for his Pentagon gig, I hope folks will focus on who his replacement at the NSC will be ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 May 12 Nice to see Wendy Sherman checking in with her political masters following the talks with Iran this week ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 May 12 @jonathanweisman If he wants a real future in politics, he needs a thicker skin ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 May 12 @howardfineman Wait -- Tom Donilon is at a NBA playoff game? When Syria is melting down and Iran talks are happening and all sorts of crap?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 May 12 Folks, just remember: Elect Romney this fall and you might get idiots like Jamie Fly and Matthew Kroenig in your government ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 May 12 That is so deep it just blew my fucking mind RT @Rnaamani: #dohaforum Steve Clemons: "when we meet in 10 years you'll see a new middle east"
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 May 12 I find it entirely amusing that Evelyn Farkas has apparently decided to write a Wikipedia page about herself: htp:/bit.ly/KAemgz Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 May 12 @rezamarashi Except those of us who fear an Iranian nuclear weapons arsenal or a regional war. #Iran #Oil #Sanctions
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 May 12 If there was a Frat Boys Network (FBN), then @lukerussert would be a primetime news anchor. Otherwise, he's just in over his head. #nepotism
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 May 12 Does @Joe_Nye think Twitter is filled with Rhodes Scholars? MT @Joe_Nye #Rhodes Scholars. Need to give back. Only a quarter of us helping.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 May 12 @lrozen The White House has an issue with the uniformed military, not the civilians at OSD. "Stacking" not right term.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 May 12 It's cute how @jrubinblogger writes as if she knows something about foreign policy. But mostly pathetic ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 May 12 Hearing Jay Carney and Ben Rhodes virtually high fiving tonight over Thom Shanker's @ nytimes article on U.S. and NATO. Get a life, guys.
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Mark Leibovich @MarkLeibovich 19 May 12 Kevin Madden profile in which writer calls him "eye candy." This makes Eric Fehrnstrom what, "eye pretzels?" bthtp:/ it.ly/K1Vwk0 via @daily
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 May 12 Latest evidence that @cnas is trying a little too hard to showcase its bipartisan creds? Appointing a former McCain staffer as new prez. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 May 12 @danielgins @benls absolutely!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 May 12 @danielgins @benls It's touching how you are sticking up for each other. Are you guys in a committed relationship or is this just a fling?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 May 12 @blakehounshell @armscontrolwonk Another sign of Romney's manifest unfitness for Oval Office: relying on Baker Spring for major op-ed ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 May 12 @BenLS @danielgins I'm amused by both of you losers. Who invited you to respond to my tweets in the first place? Ben - too many fat jokes?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 May 12 @BenLS @danielgins By the looks of your online profile pic, Mr. Ben Sacks, you need to start going to the gym + laying off the Krispy Kremes
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 May 12 Reading Sanger article reminds me: no one has asked why Tom Donilon promoted an Eliot Cohen protege as new Director of Strategic Planning?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 May 12 By the way, I believe the proper name for the "Bolton faction" is the "asshole faction".
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 May 12 Great piece by David Sanger in @nytimes showing internal foreign policy battles from Bush years replaying themselves in Romney campaign ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 May 12 @CNSWolfsthal I would advise you against going into comedy as a second career ..
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 May 12 @danielgins Who the fuck are you and why should I give a shit about what you think?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 May 12 Good piece by @joshrogin on Lugar successor at SFRC. Word to the wise; it won't be @SenBobCorker -- for one, nobody can stand Stacie Oliver
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Harvard Biz Review @HarvardBiz 10 May 12 "Resumes are dead. Interviews are largely ineffectual. Linked-In is good. Portfolios are useful." sptht:/.hbr.org/JZUHVo Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 @lrozen @danhklein So Israel has different rules than United States. We believe in wisdom of our voters to choose who can represent them.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 @danhklein Eh, Stephen Walt would just say that's redundant ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 @lrozen Weldon retained his security clearance until he was convicted and booted out of Congress. What's your point? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 @lrozen U.S. soldiers aren't elected. Why is this so difficult for you to understand? Do some real reporting!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 @lrozen Anyway, a security investigator once told me the best security clearance investigation is a political campaign all secrets come out
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 @lrozen Imagine furor if elected Member denied a security clearance, especially if GOP administration denies it to Dem Member or vice versa.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 @lrozen Still illegal to disclose classified information. Same holds true for cleared individuals and Members of Congress. View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 @ArmsControlWonk @cirincione Difference, of course, is that Biden WANTS to go to DE as often as he can, even now. Lugar and IN, not so much
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 @TimothyS @lrozen Hey morons, Members of Congress DO NOT have security clearances. If they're on the right committee, they get the info.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 Whenever I see @arifleischer I remember that he is the living incarnation of that old saw that "DC is Hollywood for ugly people" ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 May 12 I wonder if @davideckelswade knows his constant micromanaging is a big reason why so many SFRC staffers are leaving in droves @gwbled
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 So when is @BillGertz going to tell us why the @washtimes canned his ass?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 @jonathanchait That people won't fall asleep anymore at SFRC hearings listen to Lugar drone on and on?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 John Kerry now freaking out that 1) all his staff keeps leaving him and 2) he needs to deal with Corker or Risch as SFRC Chairman ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 @ezraklein Is Kirk planning on resuming his Senate duties and have his douchebag staffer Rich Goldberg stop pretending he's a Member?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 @RBReich Lugar chose to run as a Republican. He could have put himself on the ballot sans party affiliation.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 @ArmsControlWonk I work the GOP side of the Hill for my day job. After you sent the bio, I had a vague recollection of Levine. Tall guy?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 @Cirincione All politics are local. Joe Biden never forgot that. Too bad Dick Lugar didn't. Who the hell stays in a hotel as his "home"?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 Lugar always liked to play the role of a genial gentleman, but his staff always had knives out. Good riddance to those hypocritical bozos. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 Speaking of the SFRC, good riddance to the assholes on Dick Lugar's staff. The Myers father/son combo was a mix of nepotism and bullying...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 And people really think Kerry has the managerial chops to manage the State Department when he can't manage a rinky dink Hill staff? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 12 Another senior staffer departs Kerry's Foreign Relations staff: bit.ly/IJst77 When will folks realize it's a mess over there? Expand
carl hulse @hillhulse 7 May 12 GOP line of succession on Foreign Rltns Comm after Sen Lugar leads to fairly junior mbers - Sens. Corker, Risch and - wait for it - Rubio Retweeted by NatSecWonk Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 May 12 How do I get @lrozen to stop flooding my timeline by retweeting every single tweet tonight about Israeli politics? #twitterproblems
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 May 12 For reporters preparing elegant odes to the gentlemanly Dick Lugar, remember that he was perfectly happy to let staff do his dirty work .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 May 12 @AdamBlickstein Here's a thought: just ask a bartender to change the channel. I'm sure they will be happy to oblige ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May 12 @dpletka Wow, how does a former Hill staffer and think tank executive have so much assets that she needs to invest it overseas?
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf 6 May 12 Who do you think is having a worse night, Sarkozy or DSK watching the Socialist win he thought would be his?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May 12 The faux humility here is so impressive ... @RachelKleinfeld Amazing testimonials on impact of our advocacy! #TrumanCon Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 May 12 Will he lay out his plans to replace Donilon in 2nd term? @erin_pelton Deputy Nat'l Security Advisor Denis McDonough speaking on Middle East
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 May 12 @MarkLeibovich Doubt that either @taggromney or his wife want to advertise the fact that one of them is sterile .... View conversation
Robert H. Christie @BobthePRGuy 5 May 12 Politico posts then checks (or why Politico is a piece of crap) wapo.st/K7e6HS @politico
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 May 12 Using a photo of yourself with a very important person as your LinkedIn/Facebook profile pic doesn't make you look important. Just
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 May 12 So what's up with Mitt Romney's son using a surrogate to have more babies?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 May 12 Hey @morningdefense -- we don't really need a stream of retweets of someone else describing what is happening in Guantanamo today ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 May 12 @ArmsControlWonk Are you a groupie of his?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 May 12 So @mikeallen -- if one of Mikey's rules is to step away from the bar before you have stayed past your due, when are you killing your rag? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 May 12 @ArmsControlWonk Who is Ed Levine? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 May 12 For people who get hard ons about the White House Situation Room, umm, it's just a set of conference rooms.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 May 12 @lrozen So telling that you reporters get all spun up over inconsequential falsehoods like where the President is. Focus on real stories!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 May 12 That Republicans on the Hill listen to an uninformed yodel like @dubo1968 tells you all you need to know about the state of Congress today.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 May 12 @ArmsControlWonk Plenty of good staffers on the Hill.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 May 12 Foreign policy right wingers upset over Ric Grenell should recall their hero Jesse Helms blackballed an Ambassadorial nominee for being gay.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 May 12 @peterwsinger Your humility here is overpowering ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 May 12 @lrozen Sadly, the brothel scene in Kabul is sorely lacking ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Apr 12 FYI: if you email your birthday, your wedding anniversary, the birth of a child, and other life events to @mikeallen you may need a life. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Apr 12 Why are the Obama Administration's national security/foreign policy leg affairs folks so underwhelming? They couldn't find anyone better?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Apr 12 Once again, @mikeallen proves he is the tool of tools with his breathless coverage of #nerdprom. Sadly, Mikey still won't get laid tonight.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Apr 12 Hey DC journalists, nobody other than you gives a shit about a bunch of reporters in a hotel ballroom. #NerdProm
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Apr 12 @TalkingWarheads Someone needs to get over his bitterness ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Apr 12 @Cirincione Umm, @Humblebrag anyone? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Apr 12 Are these Members of Congress crowing about government waste ready to give up their precious CODELs? The ones that include winery tours ?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Apr 12 @natsecHeather I understand Bill Kristol is hard at work this evening drafting the Rubio foreign policy speech ...
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Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush 21 Apr 12 Isn't there a way to discipline newsroom kiddies short of public humiliation/firing? And how about joint reporter-editor culpability?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr 12 @Cirincione Not tweeting anymore about the Red Sox, eh?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr 12 @fritzhahn I stand corrected ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr 12 When did @mikeallen start pimping for men's neckwear?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr 12 @fritzhahn I'm surprised the @washpost pays you enough to shop at fancy schmancy @hughandcrye
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Apr 12 @EliLake Your buddy @jkirchik looks hung over there ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Apr 12 @AnnieLowrey Does that mean @ezraklein isn't getting any tonight?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Apr 12 @lrozen The #CNAS mafia strikes again! View conversation
Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson 17 Apr 12 @DLeonhardt Hate to channel Matt Taibbi, but has Tom Friedman been right on anything in 15 years? So tone deaf. Bloomberg in 2012 is DOA.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Apr 12 What's so disturbing about the Hillary dancing photo is the high-def resolution of Ben Rhodes' balding pate. And Jake Sullivan behind him.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Apr 12 @lrozen They may just be tired after spending all day in a stuffy room, no?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Apr 12 @SlaughterAM Please stop sucking up to @AmbassadorRice because you are gunning for a senior level post when she takes over State!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Apr 12 @barbaraslavin1 Umm, they're being paraded to the guillotine as we speak!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Apr 12 @ArmsControlWonk So senior U.S. officials tell the North Koreans not to do something, but you think they should listen to a blogger?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Apr 12 @stephenfhayes Yeah, a tough minded conservative would never dare send assistance to N Korea. Oh, wait, Bush did that five years ago
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Apr 12 Hey @joshrogin -- you going to follow up on Kurt C. creating a 6 figure DAS sinecure for his former intern/research assistant at State? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Apr 12 Does the Kerry statement on North Korea tonight mark the formal takeover of Asia policy by Rolfe Schiffer replacing Frank Jannuzzi? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Apr 12 I'm hearing that Kurt Campbell has installed his former @cnas intern as a new DAS. Must do wonders for the morale in the EAP bureau! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Apr 12 Why is Obama NSC appointing a Bush holdover, Eliot Cohen neocon protege as new Senior Director for Strategic Planning to replace D. Chollet?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Apr 12 @GlennThrush So, wait, you saying only Jews are real fans of the Yankees? #huh
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Apr 12 @djrothkopf Nah, McDonough seen as too boyish to be NSA. Keep you eye on Donilon for Foggy Bottom -- he wants it bad .... View conversation
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf 9 Apr 12 Rumor mill: Rice way in front in race to replace HRC. McDonough likely replacement for Donilon. Possible slot for Fareed Zakaria.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Apr 12 "Because America needs the wisdom and intellect of Valerie Jarrett as a top White House advisor for another four years." #obamaslogans Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Apr 12 @TalkingWarheads Yeah, hippie appeaser, because Fordow is just a symbol of peace and love from the I-Ranians ... #whatcrackusmokin?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Apr 12 @morningmoneyben Keep drinking that Politico Kool Aid. For some strange reason, poor Mikey's former colleagues at @washpost don't agree ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Apr 12 @morningmoneyben Haven't you reached a point in your career where such pathetic shills on behalf of your colleagues are no longer needed?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Apr 12 @jonathanweisman That's a perfect example of why college is not necessary for everyone. You need a B.A. to locate car keys? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Apr 12 Oh, this story just needs more circulation. So who is the Cabinet Officer?w:pth/w.ired.com/dangerroom/201a2/04/ana- chapmn-cabinet/...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Apr 12 Why doesn't @ColinKahl tweet about something other than the perils of a military strike on Iran? #justaskin
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Apr 12 @jwolfsthal Except when your former boss decides to visit a failing clean energy company that is recipient of serious gov largesse #solyndra
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Apr 12 @Martin_Indyk All set to read this until you mentioned that Mike O'Hanlon was a co-author .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Mar 12 It must be April Fools Day when John Bolton is complaining about an Administration pressuring intel analysts regarding WMD assessments. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Mar 12 @djrothkopf Please drop the false modesty. We all know that Garten Rothkopf has made you a very wealthy man ... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Mar 12 I just left a comment in "Conversation @ shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/03/harge_of_us_hum...n29/who_is_i_c ..."

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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Mar 12 Stupid headlines like "Are U.S. diplomats on drugs" is why @joshrogin is condemned to always blog and never be a a real newspaper reporter.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 Mar 12 The mancrush that @mikeallen has on @lukerussert is heartwarming, yet pathetic at the same time ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 30 Mar 12 @EliLake We agree on one thing. Peter Beinart is obnoxious and overrated.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Mar 12 @sallyquinndc Well, you're a middle aged upper crust white lady, so yeah is odd that your husband has two tattoos. Mid life crisis anyone?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Mar 12 @morningdefense Please don't take after loser @mikeallen with the birthday thing. We're adults, not 4th graders waiting for our special day
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar 12 @David_Shorr Yeah, I was talking about you in particular.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar 12 Interesting set of people calling themselves Obama's "foreign policy advisors". Some serious folks, like Flournoy, and some nobodies. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar 12 Hey Obama campaign people, you may want to rethink sending emails from the First Lady with the subject "Up Late". That sounds ... dirty.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Mar 12 @CrowleyTIME It doesn't help that watching Ben Rhodes mouth banal platitudes at the podium is less interesting than watching paint dry ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 27 Mar 12 @JoeDavidsonWP I am aware. It is your constant editorializing on behalf of fed workers that makes you more an advocate than reporter.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Mar 12 @lrozen And that tells us what?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Mar 12 To quote Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars, Episode IV, A New Hope: "There's more machine than man now" #dickcheney #hearttransplant Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Mar 12 @alexwagner Sorry, but nobody could give a rats ass about the GOP primary race any more. It's over.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Mar 12 Why does @joedavidsonwp write columns like he is a union rep/booster for federal employees? He should act like an objective journalist ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Mar 12 @GlennThrush Maybe you don't, but @mikeallen pathetically craves approval from DC wannabes ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Mar 12 Don't let the tributes to @SenatorBarb fool you. Every Senate staffer knows she is the most miserable boss on the Hill with high turnover. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Mar 12 @lrozen Please explain how withholding his name is evidence of a "coverup"? Agree with you on Panetta threat.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Mar 12 @lrozen We get it -- you got a scoop! Are you waiting for a Pulitzer Prize now?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Mar 12 Poor @joshrogin puts up another sloppy post. Says Senate letter on North Korea is to Obama, but just one look at text shows it is to Clinton
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Mar 12 @SuzanneNossel So are you going to tell us why Frank Jannuzi got pushed out by Kerry and took a gig with Amnesty as a consolation prize?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Mar 12 @lrozen Is becoming a lobbyist really a true second career?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Mar 12 Remember when people used to pay attention to Steve Clemons and his blog posts?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Mar 12 Only @politico thinks something called a "MikeyCam" is remotely interesting. Does it also include footage when @mikeallen jerks himself off?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Mar 12 @barbaraslavin1 Nobody in the
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Mar 12 If there is ever to be a movie made on the life of Kurt Campbell, I think Tommy Lee Jones is the natural lead ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Mar 12 So when is @colinkahl going to turn to Kroenig and yell: "Hey bitch, I was your fucking boss at the Pentagon!" #PONIDebates @CSIS_org Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Mar 12 Has anyone ever asked how Liz Cheney

became a DAS in the Bush Administration? Are we all going to pretend she was the most qualified?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Mar 12 Liz Cheney: What happens when rank nepotism meets sheer stupidity. Also, she takes after her father -- she's like 30 pounds overweight.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 Mar 12 @lrozen Umm, you do realize those readouts never actually say anything that's remotely true, huh?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Mar 12 2 douchebags getting into a catfight: MT @politico: A clash with a fellow aide led to Brad Dayspring's exit: /htp:/politi.co/yDGDmT
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Feb 12 @ColinKahl Let's hope @abumuqawama works out better than that other loser CFR fellow who worked for you and now thinks he's an Iran hot shot
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Feb 12 I enjoy the Twitter feed of @jamespmanley but how does he draw big time clients for Quinn and Gillespie with such partisan ranting?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Feb 12 Who are the funny looking people with you and the President? RT @mcfaul Champagne with Obama in 12/2010 pic.twitter.com/LPxhzaNQ
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Feb 12 Hey @SarahPalinUSA Divorce or not, I'm sure Todd is getting some on the side. I don't blame him, cause you're bat shit crazy ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Feb 12 @lrozen Umm, who elected you? View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Feb 12 It's safe to say that, if you work for Santorum, you had few options: @jamespmanley Rick Santorum aide gaffe: Ob m ’s ‘Is mic icies’ Ex d
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Feb 12 Sorry, but now that you no longer are an important DC type, I don't care about networking with you. @slaughterAM I just joined LinkedIn .
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Feb 12 I got an email today from Obama campaign inviting me to a fundraiser where Valerie Jarrett will be the speaker. How is that an incentive? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Feb 12 @SCClemons Amazing how Hagel

continues to mesmerize you and friends. He voted for Iraq War, never had balls to run for Prez.. Quit Senate
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GROUPIRA @GROUPIRA 13 Feb 12 #GROUPIRA loves Job Change Notifier - get an email alert when your #LinkedIn connections change jobs w.J:/pthobChangeNotifier.com/via @JCNotifier
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb 12 What's up with the unnecessary snark from @CapitalWeather? You have no idea what's happening tomorrow and you cater to weather porn geeks.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Feb 12 Why? Nobody cares if a First Daughter tells dumb stories about dogs. @ErikWemple: Chelsea Clinton close to re-upping with NBC network.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb 12 I pity the poor reporter who actually bought @dubo1968 's claim he is a "White House advisor". Mark Dubowitz is a self- promoting clown ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Feb 12 @ArmsControlWonk Huh? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Feb 12 @armscontrolnow Yeah, but people like @tparsi think Dennis Ross is Satan ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Feb 12 @lrozen Oh you can't put out a tweet like that without giving us some substance! What did Dave Turk do this time?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Feb 12 @natsecHeather Don't worry, 3000 other people in DC got the same generic invite from @scclemons - I'm sure he will have a webcast available
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Feb 12 @robinjwalker Something uniquely annoying about the @trumanproject types though. Pretentious and holier than thou .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Feb 12 Wow! @joshrogin just retweeted a parody tweet on supposed death of Kim Jon Eun, not realizing it was fake. Then he deleted it! #journalism
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Feb 12 Discuss: The @trumanproject is filled with the most annoying, pushy, and full of themselves career climbers in DC.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 9 Feb 12 Any bets on whether BigTool @mikeallen will link to the story on poor treatment of women at @politico in tomorrow's Playbook? Of course not
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 Feb 12 Prepare to be utterly bored: @erin_pelton Deputy Nat'l Security Advisor @rhodesb talks to CBS's @Norahodonnell on #Syria options and #Iran.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Feb 12 ASK @mikeallen why he writes his silly Playbook columns like a desperate frat brother giving shoutouts to morons and jackasses ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Feb 12 Lots of young/green DASes being named at State and OSD these days. Never knew a research assistant gig qualifies you for a management job.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Feb 12 I knew @BPC_Bipartisan was a joke when they hired Michael Allen, Mr. "Arms Control, what's that?" idiot ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Feb 12 I see that @BPC_Bipartisan has put out another pointless report on Iran. Who are these people and what role do they think they are filling?
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Leah Farrall @allthingsct 29 Jan 12 I seriously think there are more analysts doing CT related stuff in US than there are terrorists.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Jan 12 Every time I see Les Gelb, I keep thinking of my eccentric uncle who the family wonders whether or not he's finally lost his marbles .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jan 12 @ArmsControlWonk But you freely admit that. Kroenig likes to pretend he was sitting in Deputies meetings and advocating for an Iran strike.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jan 12 Much better photo @colinkahl !! Follow my advice and you could go places, young man ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Jan 12 You know, @colinkahl is a good looking dude. Why does he have such a dorky Twitter profile pic?
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@wmata @wmata 26 Jan 12 Red Line: Trains single tracking btwn Friendship Hghts & Van Ness due to a broken rail near Tenleytown. Expect delays during AM rush hour.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Jan 12 @BillGertz Analgous to "Real reporters can do what sham ideologues like Bill Gertz can't do"
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan 12 Poor @EliLake thinks he's got a hot lead on an Iran story. Too bad he's being fed a load of crap. But he's gullible enough to believe it.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan 12 If Gingrich wins the nomination, all those GOP foreign policy weenies who jumped on Romney's bandwagon, er policy teams, will be so screwed!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan 12 @elilake The answer to your DM to me is: "I'm your worst enemy." I couldn't DM you because you don't follow me. You should change that.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan 12 When is Charles Hoskinen, aka @morningdefense, going to admit he got thoroughly snowed on by Wendy Anderson's PR blitz on behalf of herself?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan 12 I thoroughly enjoyed the bitch slapping that Colin Kahl administered to Mr. Kroenig recently in @foreignaffairs
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Jan 12 Why is @NYTmag quoting Matthew Kroenig? He was a low-level desk officer at the Pentagon for ONE YEAR. He knows jack about U.S. Iran policy
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jan 12 When is someone going to call out #MorningJoe for the sheer nepotism of trotting out the co-anchor's dad for weekly appearances?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jan 12 Watching Valerie Jarrett on #MorningJoe right now. Wondering, yet again, how this woman is a senior White House officials...#nothingthere
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jan 12 Especially egregious? @morningdefense just gave a passing mention to Erin Conaton, a true professional.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 24 Jan 12 Amused to see that @morningdefense fell hook, line, sinker for the Wendy Anderson self-promotion campaign. She's viewed poorly on the Hill.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Jan 12 @CrowleyTIME From my experience, low- level flunkies call themselves "mid-level" officials. Everyone's senior these days .... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jan 12 @dpletka Funny, but Mitch Reiss has completely lapped you in the career department, no? You're stuck at crappy AEI for life ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Jan 12 @marcthiessen Oh, fat boy, jealous that Jon Huntsman is, I don't know, ten times as good looking as your bloated ass?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jan 12 @dpletka Snarky comments from the same woman who was too right wing to even get a job in the Bush Administration ... View conversation
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Jan 12 I guess Huntsman's "ticket to ride" just got invalidated.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jan 12 @EliLake Trita's an advocate. You're an alleged journalist. Who's supposed to be more objective and free of foreign influence?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jan 12 I'm not really surprised that no one has ever mentioned @dandrezner for a position in any Administration ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Jan 12 Hey @noonanjo -- No tweets on your boss, Buck McKeon, accepting a VIP sweetheart mortgage deal from Countrywide? Cat got your tongue?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Jan 12 @Cirincione Your modesty is overpowering ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jan 12 @joshrogin I just need to see who you quote anoymously. They're always a "senior Senate GOP aide". Everyone knows who your sources are.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jan 12 @Cirincione So, umm, when do you do actual work when you aren't meeting Hollywood stars or running on the Mall during the workday?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jan 12 @EliLake Very fair point. I would have save some valuable Twitter characters ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Jan 12 @EliLake Umm, yeah. Everyone in DC knows @joshrogin gets his leaks spoonfed to him by right wing neocons, just look at his Iran post
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jan 12 @marcthiessen No, fat boy, George Bush invading Iraq and then botching the occupation handed the country over to Iran. How stupid are you?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jan 12 So @jodikantor and @ronlieber are a perfect example of why people call Washington DC "Hollywood for ugly people". #justsayin Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Jan 12 Glad to hear that Robert Gibbs rightfully chewed out Valerie Jarrett. All my White House friends have zero idea what she does all day. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Jan 12 Safe to say @jodikantor has locked up @humblebrag prize for 2012! You and POTUS have "an intense relationship"? He knows exactly who U are?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Dec 11 Half of the folks involved in @trumanproject have no idea/could care less about whatever vision Rachel Kleinfeld and company are pushing.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Dec 11 Note to journos -- the @trumanproject is all about a bunch of 20/30 somethings interested in career advancement in DC foreign policy circles
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Dec 11 Why is @BillGertz - who supposedly focuses on national security, trashing Occupy DC in his "reporting"? Should I tweet on how obese he is?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Dec 11 Kroenig is goosing himself up as a neocon, but was desperately looking for a job in the Obama Administration. Wonder why that is .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Dec 11 is Kroenig's overinflated bio. "Responsible for defense policy on Iran". Really? As a one year fellow? Wonder what Colin Kahl thinks? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Dec 11 Everyone's talking about Matthew Kroenig's article in Foreign Affairs advocating a military strike on Iran. But what people should focus on Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Dec 11 @marcambinder Please, let's not be overdramatic. Very little the USG can or want to do for next few days other than monitor and watch.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Dec 11 @ArmsControlWonk Maybe try responding
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Dec 11 @Gottemoeller Too bad the White House abruptly asked Mr. Beyrle to cut short his tour early to make way for Mike McFaul ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Dec 11 Apparently, Mr. Rhodes chose to send an email to WH/NSC staff a few minutes before midnight to inform everyone that the

Iraq War has ended.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Dec 11 Hey @joshrogin -- hearing that some in the WH not very happy with Ben Rhodes' self-congratulatory and ill-informed Iraq commentary recently!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Dec 11 Kudos to @erikwemple for keeping the heat on why the news media canonizes Chelsea Clinton for having the good fortune of being born. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Dec 11 Umm @joshrogin - a bit of a stretch to refer to @jamiefly and David Merkel as "prominent" experts. Really?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Dec 11 Hey @Goldberg3000 -- instead of darkly intimating shadowy advisors stopping POTUS from taking on Iran - why not name them?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Dec 11 What is @JaredCohen remembered for at the State Dept? Rolling in at 10 AM every morning and posting dumb photos from Syria. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Dec 11 Glad to see this morning that Tim Morrison continues to shamelessly leak to @billgertz from his new position with @repmiketurner
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Dec 11 Hey @joshrogin -- everyone knows you file your Hill posts by getting spoonfed by the same two "GOP senior staffers". We know who they are.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 Dec 11 What is with @mikeallen and his obsession with chronicling the woes of @washpost? Did he get fired there for being a dork? Expand
JIDF @JIDF 29 Nov 11 yeah, I'm thinking there's a system-wide realtime search problem right now. no results for about the last 2 hours....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 29 Nov 11 Kudos to @erikwemple for tearing away the Oz curtain behind which @mikeallen hides! Mikey's nothing more than a corporate whore! Expand
YouGottaVote @YouGottaVote 23 Nov 11 @NatSecWonk You crack out some deliciously stinging tweets; glad I have the good fortune of following! Retweeted by NatSecWonk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Nov 11 @YouGottaVote Yep. The creeping commercialization of Twitter ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Nov 11 Hey @erinpelton - when was the last time Ben Rhodes said something not painfully banal and obvious? What does Obama see in this guy anyway?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Nov 11 I had forgotten how fat and pastyfaced @marcthiessen is. #cnndebate
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Nov 11 What was up with @dpletka and the librarian look last night? She had a good question -- few histrionics there. I'm surprised. #cnndebate
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Nov 11 Wow, a huge collection of douchebags all gathered in one room. People like @mikeallen @keithurbahn @noonanjo @dpletka and the list goes on.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Nov 11 Does anyone seriously think @mikeallen has any idea what "The Look" is? Has he even kissed a girl yet?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Oct 11 Why does @mikeallen cut and paste press releases on sports broadcasts into his overrated Playbook?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Oct 11 Hey @billgertz - everyone knows your "source" is a fat Republican. His initials are JH/he's a GOP flunkie who burrowed into civil service. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 11 Oct 11 I'm sure @jamiemfly 's kid will be touched to know her parents were such tools they need to send her 1 yr b-day announcement to @mikeallen
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Oct 11 Exploring why I was left off Mitt Romney's national security team announced today. Folks - time to start sucking up to these people! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 6 Oct 11 Hey @joshrogin -- when did Neera Tanden become a foreign policy expert?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 4 Oct 11 Now that Frank Lowenstein has joined the Podesta Group, does he still get to take smoke breaks every 2 hours? #justaskin Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Sep 11 Any better way to spend a Sunday than seeing Jeffrey Lewis and Daryl Kimball bitchslap each other around? @armscontrolnow @armscontrolwonk
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Aug 11 Hey @humblebrag -- check out @scclemons tweets this evening. Risking his own life to post on his blog. #whatanationalhero Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Aug 11 Hey @elilake -- good piece in TNR, but know that Brian Hook was never an A/S at State -- was only acting when Silverbrand left.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Aug 11 @keithurbahn Amusing. Speaking of interns, isn't your wife still one?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 7 Aug 11 When did @mikeallen get in the business of proffering TV viewing recommendations? And bad ones at that ....
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pourmecoffee @pourmecoffee 1 Aug 11 Gabby Giffords does the impossible again by humanizing the House in her first vote since the Tucson shooting.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug 11 Why do House GOP leadership never allow the only woman on their leadership team to ever speak at pressers?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Aug 11 Ron Christie is living proof that any low level ex Administration hack can land a cable TV gig ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Jul 11 Funny how @jrubinblogger can't admit she screwed up on her Norway-Al Qaeda hypothesis. As stupid as she is ugly? Guess so ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Jul 11 I love anonymous GOP criticisms of Lippert in @joshrogin post. Did they forget that the Rumsfeld Pentagon was packed with ex Helms bozos?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 1 Jul 11 Great piece @natsecnet but why praise for Vicenzino? Everyone knows his GSP is one man self-promoting blowhard. No one takes him seriously
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 31 May 11 Hey @mikeallen - just b/c your missing buddy is a white male from NW DC does not mean newspapers have to provide banner coverage. Get real.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 11 @AlecJRoss Can someone say puke? I doubt the average FSO considers you a "diplomat" ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 8 May 11 @ArmsControlWonk The life of a think tank denizen should qualify for combat danger pay ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 May 11 Does anyone have Audrey Tomasen's phone #? She's the new it girl in wonk circles, so I want to be mentioned in Reliable Source as her date.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 5 May 11 How many others caught the Washington Post mini-profile of Jonah Blank? No mention that most of DC thinks he is an insufferable blowhard.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 3 May 11 Kristol @scclemons and others: Anyone consider Palin hired new FP aides without any consideration or understanding of their different views?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 May 11 @CrowleyTime Others in room include State Department's Bill Burns and NSC waterboy Matt Spence.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 May 11 @CrowleyTime No, the hefty one at the far right is Nick Rasmussen, Senior Director for Counterterrorism.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Apr 11 Senator Kyl's nukes staffer, Tim Morrison, hasn't had a date in the last decade. #notintendedtobeafactualstatement
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Apr 11 @mvallonesta Indeed we should ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Apr 11 #civilwarpolitico We give your our breakdown. Winners: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Richard E. Lee Losers: All the dead soldiers. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Apr 11 #civilwarpolitico Debuting the new section 16: Everything you ever wanted to know about President Lincoln, including his hoops partners.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Apr 11 #civilwarpolitico The Confederacy Playbook: @mikeallen gives you the scoop on who's in, who's out, and which random person's birthday it is.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Apr 11 #civilwarpolitico A Click Special: Which capital has the more rocking social life? Washington DC or Richmond, VA?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar 11 Hearing that Mark Lippert is headed back to Pentagon as Chip Gregson's replacement as Asia point person. Kurt C. is about to be schooled!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar 11 Stunned that I haven't gotten twenty tweets and five emails from @scclemons today alerting me to the @politico cover story on HIM! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar 11 I'm sure Obama appreciates the advice from @dpletka A lady so right wing and so condescending she couldn't even get a job in the W admin.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 28 Mar 11 Hey reporters, there's no need for every

one of you to tweet the same lines from the POTUS speech! Umm, we can link to the WH website too.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Mar 11 Surprised to hear Al Kamen now on Twitter. He hasn't been relevant since the Clinton 90s. Gets his ass kicked by folks like @joshrogin Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar 11 The question everyone in DC is asking: who's crazier? HFAC Chair Ros Lehtinen or her Staff Director, Yleem Poblete? Who influences whom?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Mar 11 Poor, poor Ben Rhodes .... madly spinning away, trying to explain a policy that just makes no sense to anyone, right or left. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Mar 11 @senatorlugar appears to be only person in DC unaware that he is a lame duck incumbent -- which is why no one is listening to him on Libya.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Mar 11 Question: will Randy Scheuneman serve as Sarah Palin's foreign policy sherpa when she visits Israel? What a fun job that must be ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Mar 11 Scratching my head as all these arms control experts become nuclear energy specialists overnight to talk Japan meltdown. Why I love DC ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Mar 11 New Director of Policy Planning at State: Has there ever been a greater name than Bathsheba Crocker?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Mar 11 Who finds it baffling that the Irish PM is in Washington EVERY St. Paddies Day? It's like POTUS going to Mexico for every 4th of July! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Mar 11 Where was @slaughteram with all these policy paens when she was in government? Oh, that's right, working on the all too forgettable
QDDR!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Mar 11 When did I miss the news that @lrozen was hired as a paid flack for @pjcrowley? Her tweets today so help the MSM when they argue objectivity
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Mar 11 @benpolitico @dcjourno Both. I like to straddle the fence ...
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Mar 11 So when are reporters going to out Philippe Reines as the guy who stuck the dagger in PJ's back? @benpolitico
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 10 Mar 11 Did I just hear Tom Donilon bitch slap Jim Clapper? Wow! And then his teenage aide Ben Rhodes piles on ... Meow!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 2 Mar 11 Re Bardella firing, I constantly have to remind myself that I am not more important than my boss. It's tough when he's a moron ... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 26 Feb 11 Heading off to a trendy dinner party this evening. Some Administration types will be there, giving me fodder for water cooler chat next week
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 25 Feb 11 I'm on the distro list for the Nelson Report. Just thought you all should know. #imaveryimportantperson
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Feb 11 For all my journo friends tweeting on the demise of TBD.com, a short message: NOBODY CARES! Thank you.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 23 Feb 11 Am I the only one who thinks Les Gelb reminds you of your crazy old uncle who won't stop talking at you while flashing a creepy smile? #cfr
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Feb 11 I did. Really! Ask any cab driver I have used ... @stevenacook Amazing. Everyone in Washington predicted the Arab revolutions of 2011.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 22 Feb 11 Working furiously to reposition myself as a Libya expert. Egypt is so passe now. Will wearing green make me be seen as "in the know"? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 21 Feb 11 Do folks remember when Khaddafi called Condi an "African ebony queen" or something like that? That bozo deserves his imminent comeuppance.!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 20 Feb 11 Phillipe working overtime with all these HRC exclusives popping up. What's the angle ? Trying to push back against bad press from Egypt?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 19 Feb 11 I'm available to speak with any reporters on the new Iran NIE. Have no idea what's in it, but I have read all the anonymous leaks about it! Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 18 Feb 11 @SCClemons I recall your push for PP chief in the last Administration. Cheers.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Feb 11 My Dick Holbrooke anecdote: easedropping on a conversation he had with a staffer while he was pissing in the urinal. A fascinating man.
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Feb 11 Good Hill hearings this week. I always like to see who is sitting behind Cabinet officers when they testify. "Kremlinology" if you will... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 17 Feb 11 Any bets on who will be tapped to serve as Jake's deputy at the Policy Planning bureau at State? Will @scclemons nominate himself again?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb 11 Re Bill Burton's departure, does anyone in Washington DC other than O no longer doubt that Robert Gibbs is a major douche bag?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb 11 Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Condi and Dani went at each other. This would have sold tickets, people! http://blog.american.com/? p=27120
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb 11 Am I the only one who thinks Jay Carney looks like a 15 yr old who just won the spelling bee? P.S. His wife, Claire Shipman -- a hot
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb 11 Contemplating how I can engineer a move to CSIS just in time to land a nice office at their fancy new digs on Rhode Isld Ave opening in 2014
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb 11 Props to my man Phillippe for not one, but TWO, puff pieces on HRC this week! Meanwhile, is Denis flipping out over at the West Wing? Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 16 Feb 11 Poring over the new members list for the Council on Foreign Relations? #verysexy
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Feb 11 @colincookman I have had good experiences with both, although I took Megabus only to Philly. Either way, they both trump Amtrak!
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Feb 11 Are others going to the J Street conference at the end of the month?
I think I'll go with the seminars at U Street, thank you very much. Expand NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Feb 11 The selection process for the new S/SRAP: HRC begged and cajoled every living former D and P before someone finally said yes ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 15 Feb 11 @noamunger I'm in this to win, baby! Actually, I was thinking the foreign policy world needs the equivalent of @dcjourno ....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Feb 11 WaPo is reporting Marc Grossman will be the new SRAP. Need to plant a leak that I am under consideration as one of his deputies .... Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Feb 11 Putting on my green eyeshade so that I can pretend to know something on the budget process. Figure I will make lotsa refs to "State Ops".
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 14 Feb 11 Trying to figure out what next foreign policy crisis de jour is so I can brush up on my reading and get ahead of the curve for cable shows. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Feb 11 My sources tell me Hillary was not happy with today's NYT tick tock on Egypt. She's cursing, "Who the fuck told me Wisner was a good
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Feb 11 Greatest dream in life? To be a source for a @marcambinder blockbuster special .....
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Feb 11 Because I participated in one White House outreach session during the Egypt crisis, I can list "White House advisor" in my bio for all time. Expand
NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 13 Feb 11 No mention of me in this morning's epic NYT tick-tock of the U.S. response to Egypt. How do I join the cool kids club - Denis, Ben, and Sam?
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NatSecWonk @NatSecWonk 12 Feb 11 Now that Egypt has been solved and I'm done advising the Administration, it's time for me to get all 2010 and join Twitter! This will be fun
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