For what it's worth, Benjamin Wittes says, "It's going to be a long day. Buckle up."

[MelissaB]

Link to tweet

And Pwn All The Things? retweeted Benjamin Wittes and says:
If this is what I think it is, it is more deserving of a full grown 12" howitzer blast than a baby cannon.

Link to tweet

[GusBob]

1. For What Its Worth, indeed eom

[Orrex]

9. :thumbsup:

[MelissaB]

13. This was meant as a heads up

for those interested, but I knew it would draw posts like this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Just discovered him on Twitter yesterday....n/t

[LanternWaste]

23. Quite the unintended irony in your post.

Quite the unintended irony in your post, indeed (part two).

[awesomerwb1]

2. I know of the baby cannon and Mr Wittes...

but who is "Pwn All The Things" and what's his or her background?

[MelissaB]

6. He is the guy who " Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians" by the dead guy (Smith)

who said no foul play in suicide note.

I'm not good w/ names and there are so many to keep up with. I had to google. Here he is. He was twitter legend even before this.

The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians
By Matt Tait
Friday, June 30, 2017, 10:50 PM

... snip

Towards the end of one of our conversations, Smith made his pitch. He said that his team had been contacted by someone on the “dark web”; that this person had the emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server (which she had subsequently deleted), and that Smith wanted to establish if the emails were genuine. If so, he wanted to ensure that they became public prior to the election. What he wanted from me was to determine if the emails were genuine or not.

It is no overstatement to say that my conversations with Smith shocked me. Given the amount of media attention given at the time to the likely involvement of the Russian government in the DNC hack, it seemed mind-boggling for the Trump campaign—or for this offshoot of it—to be actively seeking those emails. To me this felt really wrong.

In my conversations with Smith and his colleague, I tried to stress this point: if this dark web contact is a front for the Russian government, you really don’t want to play this game. But they were not discouraged. They appeared to be convinced of the need to obtain Clinton’s private emails and make them public, and they had a reckless lack of interest in whether the emails came from a Russian cut-out. Indeed, they made it quite clear to me that it made no difference to them who hacked the emails or why they did so, only that the emails be found and made public before the election.

... snip

By the middle of September, all contact between us ended. By this time, I had grown extremely uncomfortable with the situation, so when Smith and his colleague asked me to sign a non-disclosure agreement, I declined to do so. My suspicion was that the real purpose of the non-disclosure agreement was to retrospectively apply confidentiality to the conversations we had already had before that point. I refused to sign the non-disclosure and we went our separate ways.

As I mentioned above, Smith and his associates’ knowledge of the inner workings of the campaign were insightful beyond what could be obtained by merely attending Republican events or watching large amounts of news coverage. But one thing I could not place, at least initially, was whether Smith was working on behalf of the campaign, or whether he was acting independently to help the campaign in his personal capacity.

More: https://lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians

[awesomerwb1]

10. Thanks! n/t

[MelissaB]

17. You're welcome!

It's hard to keep track of all of the characters in this play.

[FarPoint]

3. So, what could this teaser be about?

I'm lost.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. ................

[Laurian]

5. Hmmm. No tweets from the asshole this morning.

Maybe he's preoccupied with whatever is coming?

[demmiblue]

7. To be fair, he has a really busy schedule today:

10:30 a.m.: President Donald Trump will receive his daily intelligence briefing in the Oval Office.

11 a.m.: Trump will meet with national security adviser H.R. McMaster in the Oval Office.

1:30 p.m.: Trump will meet with OMB Director Mick Mulvaney in the Oval Office.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/31/trump-schedule-today-white-house-242203

[MelissaB]

8. He usually tweets early morning.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Looks like Pres. Kelly is focusing on getting things done.

He sits in on all the meetings, ya know, and controls who sees and does not see Trump.
Has made it calm and orderly in the Oval, but I have to wonder if he is "translating" these meetings to Trump, since Trump's focus is so limited. Which would make Kelly the real source of info.
Way too calm and orderly for Trump who is famous for wanting drama going on.
He is gonna be real bored now.

[SweetieD]

11. I'm excited. Waiting for the day the biggest scandal brings him down.

[MelissaB]

14. I think it's going to be death by 1,000 cuts,

but I'm just guessing.

[malaise]

12. Get thee to the greatest page

Rec

[MelissaB]

18. Thanks!

[Mr. Ected]

15. What could it be? Will Grassley be releasing the transcripts today? n/t

[spinbaby]

16. But it's not even Friday yet

Isn't a Friday evening of a holiday weekend prime time for a news dump?

[brooklynite]

21. A journalist I know was told by a source...

...that IF something was going to happen, having it happen over Labor Day weekend would be a good time to avoid market chaos.

[MelissaB]

22. Interesting.

Thanks for that.

[Eliot Rosewater]

24. Thank god for the State of NY and their Atty Gnl, because we know the GOP will allow

the trump group to commit any crime, any level of treason, and do absolutely nothing

We know that, they are proving that. Which normally means country is over.

Maybe, just maybe NY can save our asses.

[Mrs. Overall]

25. BOOM! His cannon just fired: RNC Russian Donations story...

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/manafort-notes-russian-meet-contain-cryptic-reference-donations-n797816?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

[MelissaB]

27. Thanks!

[Not Ruth]

26. He is the new leader of Team Patriot

Mensch is quiet, and Taylor is all about how little money he has.

[ecstatic]

28. I assume Rachel will have another great show tonight! nt

[Not Ruth]

29. I guess this was about the Mueller IRS news?