Graydon Young: Trading a Potential Terrorism Enhancement for Testimony against His Sister

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When Graydon Young pled guilty, the government dropped the charge against him that carries a terrorism enhancement. Here's what he may have given the government in exchange.
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The January 6 Plea Deals: Cooperation, Felony, and Misdemeanor Plea Deals

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emptywheel
Links to the three kinds of plea agreements we've seen in the January 6 investigation so far.
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Mutually Assured Blackmail: Roger Stone Tries to Undercut Steve Bannon's Power

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emptywheel
Roger Stone has accused Steve Bannon of blackmailing Trump to obtain a pardon. That's interesting, because Bannon witnessed Stone presenting the materials Stone himself may have used to blackmail Trump to get a pardon.
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Thomas Webster's Opening Electronic Communication: A Glimpse at How FBI Sees This Terror Attack, Not a Debunking of Christopher Wray

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A paragraph of likely boilerplate in the opening memo for Thomas Webster doesn't debunk what Christopher Wray has told Congress. But it does show what kind of terrorist attack the FBI understood the January 6 to be four months ago.
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PCLOB: The Essential Oversight Link Designed to Be Inadequate

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Last year, there were a couple of measures that purported to respond to the problems with the Carter Page FISA application but which would not have helped him at all. In February, House Judiciary Committee rolled out a bill to replace the now-lapsed…
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Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald Are Outraged that Bill Barr Set Up Antifa!!!! [Just Kidding]

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emptywheel
If Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald believed the conspiracy theory they're spreading, they would be outraged that Bill Barr set up Antifa using informants recruited from the Proud Boys.
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The Crimes of Violence Ashli Babbitt's Mob Allegedly Committed

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emptywheel
Thus far, four of the men who were present when Ashli Babbitt was shot have been charged with the kind of damage that can (though has not yet) carry a terrorism enhancement.
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The Model MAGA Tourist, Anna Morgan-Lloyd, and Evidence Collection

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emptywheel
What the government sentencing memo for MAGA Tourist Anna Morgan-Lloyd says about possible resolutions for other January 6 defendants.
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Charlie Savage's Obfuscations in the Service of Claiming Julian Assange Is a Journalist

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emptywheel
Everyone is fighting for press freedoms again, and therefore lots of people are misrepresenting the facts about Julian Assange's prosecution in purported defense of press freedom again. These are the paragraphs with which UK Judge Vanessa…
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Joshua Schulte Attempts to Hack the Court System

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emptywheel
Joshua Schulte attempted to complete a hack of the court system yesterday. I don't mean that Schulte used computer code to bring down the court systems. His laptop doesn't connect to the Internet, and so he does not have those tools available.…
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The Delayed Trespassing Charges against Savanah McDonald and Nolan Kidd

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emptywheel
The government seems to be using confrontations that took place outside the Capitol to hold insurrectionists accountable for entering a lightly guarded side door of the Capitol.
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A New Emphasis on Threats of Violence in the Latest January 6 Conspiracy Indictment

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emptywheel
The Three Percenter conspiracy has the same goal as all the other militia conspiracies, but was charged differently. By doing so, the government may be trying to hold people accountable for the violence they incited while standing on a rally stage.
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How Don McGahn Distracted the NYTimes from the Subpoenas Known To Be Problematic

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emptywheel
The NYT has a key update on the HPSCI subpoenas, which is that the investigation was targeting a committee staffer, not Adam Schiff. But instead of focusing on that, Don McGahn got the NYT to instead spend 17 paragraphs speculating wildly about why he was subpoenaed in 2018.
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Ending American Erasure

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Rayne
Reject the erasure of Americans who aren't white and accept the truth of this nation's history.
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"Target:" A Vocabulary Lesson for Adam Schiff

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emptywheel
None of the Attorneys General denying any knowledge of a subpoena "targeting" Adam Schiff are denying that a subpoena obtained records that happened to be from Adam Schiff.
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Carter Page Believed James Wolfe Was Ellen Nakashima's Source Disclosing His FISA Application Less than a Month After the Story

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According to the Statement of Offense to which James Wolfe -- the former Senate Intelligence Committee security official convicted of lying about his contacts with journalists -- allocuted, Carter Page suspected Wolfe was the source for Ellen…
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Wegman and NYT on Judge Katzmann

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bmaz
Judge Robert Katzmann has passed. Jesse Wegman has penned a magnificent tribute to him.
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Some Perspective on the Politicized Leak Investigation Targeting Adam Schiff

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emptywheel
Now that Adam Schiff has learned that "it's just metadata" doesn't rule about abuse of surveillance powers, maybe we can have a broader discussion about how the government uses metadata?
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