Thread of Threads regarding the FBI counterintelligence investigation:

Senate Intelligence has produced the 1000 page, Volume 5 report on the counterintelligence investigation. That’s longer than their first four volumes (364 pages) and the Mueller Report (448 pages) combined.
To understand the storm that’s about to hit Trump, start here, with my original thread from my @blakesmustache account, which got shut down: https://twitter.com/cm_merlin/status/1269561203317248000
Next read this, which explains the above thread in the context of what McCabe was dealing when he concocted his plan: https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1281027108366663681
Next read this thread explaining why McCabe had to cut Rosenstein out of the plan to protect the counterintelligence investigation: https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1281579659747106818
Next read this explanation of the fact that the FBI might have gotten Trump’s financials during McCabe’s brief, 81-day tenure as Acting FBI Director from May 10-July 31, 2017, meaning they might be addressed in Volume 5 of Senate Intel’s report: https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1281307270790426627
As explained in The Threat and in the podcast below, McCabe had worked the Russian mob desk of the FBI NY Field Office from 1996-2001. He had chased Tokhtakhunov (who Trump met with at 2013 Miss Universe) out of Trump Tower and investigated Felix Sater. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trump-inc/id1344894187?i=1000440028207
‎Trump, Inc.: Former FBI Deputy Chief Andrew McCabe and Trump, Inc. Compare Notes on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Trump, Inc., Ep Former FBI Deputy Chief Andrew McCabe and Trump, Inc. Compare Notes - May 29, 2019

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trump-inc/id1344894187?i=1000440028207
FBI General Counsel Jim Baker and staff lawyer, Lisa Page, were critical to helping McCabe craft a strategy for protecting the counterintelligence investigation McCabe opened on Trump:

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1281642323278024709?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1281642323278024709
When and how will Senate Intel’s report be released? See below:
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1281955134734585856?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1281955134734585856
The FBI has demonstrated its ability to recuse Trump from a counterintelligence investigation into cases where Trump is compromised. Just ask Bernie Sanders.

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1282017857140920320?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1282017857140920320
How did McCabe protect the FBI counterintelligence investigation from getting shut down? Here are some things he clearly would have considered and almost certainly would have done:

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1282034095560765442?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1282034095560765442
Here’s proof that Mueller was not authorized to investigate Trump, meaning that the FBI kept the counterintelligence investigation into Trump all for itself:

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1282274688383750145?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1282274688383750145
My response to the question of whether Senate Intel is reporting on its own counterintelligence investigation or on the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation:

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1282380232608055297?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1282380232608055297
Full timeline of the events I believe relevant to understanding what happened to the FBI counterintelligence investigation. All of this is public information, and much came from the books The Threat (by McCabe) and Deep State (by @JamesStewartNYT):

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1282706096264814592?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1282706096264814592
You’re Mueller: who do you trust, Ratfink Rosenstein or FBI Golden Boy McCabe, who you handpicked for some of the most sensitive projects of your career? Let’s see:

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1283067964959358978?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1283067964959358978
My explanation for why Mueller shut down his investigation as soon as Barr arrived on the scene:

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1283359858620870658?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1283359858620870658
My call for the release of Volume 5:
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1283466049237790720?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1283466049237790720
Watch this clip of Warner and Burr discussing Volume 5 during Ratcliffe’s confirmation hearing:
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1283504367367315458?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1283504367367315458
Step-by-step explanation of how the FBI counterintelligence investigation was protected from interference by Trump and Barr:
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1283808961024663552?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1283808961024663552
My explanation of why it may make sense for Warner to wait a while to release Volume 5, even after his August Recess deadline passes. Timing is everything and patience is a virtue!
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1284560511519076352?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1284560511519076352
McCabe was an expert on the Russian mob and long suspected they would try to infiltrate American politics. So it’s no wonder he opened the counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump was compromised by Russia:
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1284515823319646209?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1284515823319646209
My attempt to poke holes in my own theory. (Spoiler: I didn’t get far.)
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1284225074472648704?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1284225074472648704
What would a counterintelligence investigation into Trump focus on and what would it find?
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1284891149073817600?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1284891149073817600
This thread is similar to some of the others above about how to shelter a counterintelligence investigation, but looking at it from the perspective of Bill Barr, and I included my speculation about who oversaw the counterintelligence investigation:
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1285311727048036352?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1285311727048036352
Summary of some of the principal facts highlighting the importance of Volume 5:
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1286673339684204544?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1286673339684204544
Discussing ODNI sending the redacted Volume 5 back to Senate Intel.

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1287832598258036741?s=21 https://twitter.com/BlazerLegacy/status/1287832598258036741
Discussing what happens next now that Senate Intel can look at ODNI’s suggested redactions:
https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1287846998670966786?s=21 https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1287846998670966786
Why Volume 5 took over three years:

https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1290332968976879621?s=21 https://twitter.com/blazerlegacy/status/1290332968976879621
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