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"Fool's Gold:" The Polls Shared with Konstantin Kilimnik Integrated Tony Fabrizio's Polling with Cambridge Analytica's

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emptywheel
Rick Gates integrated Paul Manafort's favorite pollster, Tony Fabrizio, with the polls of Cambridge Analytica before he sent the polling off to Konstantin Kilimnik.
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You Cannot Discuss Disinformation and the Steele Dossier without Discussing Oleg Deripaska

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emptywheel
In an attack on the Steele dossier, Barry Meier plays a role in the ongoing disinformation campaign that he attacks.
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The Shocking Blue Streets of Monaco

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bmaz
Monaco is part boring as a processional, and part the most special race on the calendar.
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DOJ Reaches a Non-Prosecution Agreement with the MCC Guards Bill Barr Used as Scapegoats for Jeffrey Epstein's Death

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emptywheel
Under Bill Barr, DOJ tried to scapegoat two prison guards for Jeffrey Epstein's death. Yesterday, Merrick Garland's DOJ entered into a non-prosecution agreement with them, which will allow DOJ IG to fully investigate the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death.
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Insurance File: Glenn Greenwald's Anger Is of More Use to Vladimir Putin than Edward Snowden's Freedom

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emptywheel
As Edward Snowden's utility in inspiring further leaks diminishes, Glenn Greenwald's tirades have become more valuable to Russian than Snowden himself.
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Vicky and Rudy: The Subjects of Delay

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emptywheel
SDNY is fairly explicit that the reason they want to use a Special Master to filter the content seized from Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing is to avoid the kind of delay that has stalled this investigation for the past 18 months.
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Discuss: U.S. Mobile Data Compared to Rest of Globe

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Rayne
Sometimes discussion material is self-evident, like the cost of U.S. mobile data compared to the rest of the world.
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Victoria Toensing's Singular Multiple Devices

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emptywheel
The government has docketed a less redacted version of the letter it originally posted asking for a Special Master to troll through Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing's devices to separate out the privileged material. As I predicted, the redacted…
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DOJ Moves to Label John Sullivan a Professional Provocateur

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emptywheel
Yesterday, the government released a superseding indictment for John Earle Sullivan, the guy who filmed video of the insurrection and then sold it to CNN and other media outlets. In addition to adding two crimes for his possession of a knife…
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Track This Post: U.S. Postmaster DeJoy Must Be Fired and Hajjar Hired

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Rayne
The country has had enough economic hassle this past year -- they don't need more from Trump's corrupt appointee Louis DeJoy. And whatever's holding up Anton Hajjar's appointment needs to end, stat, so he can help get rid of DeJoy.
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Rudy's Lawyers Destroy His Reputation in an Attempt to Save It

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emptywheel
Just before a long tirade about how, if DOJ had just asked Rudy Giuliani for help proving he's not a secret Agent of Russian-backed Ukrainians while he was busy at State and WDPA acting as a secret Agent of Russian-backed Ukrainians, he could…
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Y'all Qaeda Northwest: Ethan Nordean Provides Yet More Proof of the Proud Boys' Sophistication and Resilience

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emptywheel
The government and Ethan Nordean are having a dispute that is, at least procedurally, about whether by giving Nordean the Telegram text messages he demanded in prioritized fashion, the government committed a Brady violation. Nordean started…
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No One Wants to Work [For You] Anymore: The End of Oligopsony

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Rayne
There are few ways faster to piss me off than to say, "Slackers don't want to work" in response to the lack of candidates for low-wage jobs. Try paying a living wage and not being a bully, for starters.
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January 6: A Change of Pace

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emptywheel
The pace of arrests in the January 6 investigation has slowed of late. But there's a lot more going on in the background.
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DOJ's Curious Militia Math

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emptywheel
The latest filing in the Proud Boys leadership conspiracy raises questions about whether top Proud Boy leadership includes six people, or six people plus the FBI's seeming informant.
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Peter Debbins, Shrink-Wrapped Spy

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emptywheel
In a long redacted passage of the government's response to Peter Debbins' excuses for spying for Russia, the government likely address the theories of Debbins' psychiatrist.
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The Mike Flynn Interviews, with Backup

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emptywheel
A few weeks ago, the government turned over the backup to some Mueller interviews, including a number of Flynn interviews, at least one Steve Bannon interview, and a Corey Lewandowski one. I've long been tracking the public Mike Flynn interview…
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When Fox News Generals Boasted of Brokering Russian Meetings with Mike Flynn

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emptywheel
Recently liberated backup files to Mike Flynn's Mueller interviews show that at least one Fox News General was claiming he and Flynn had been reaching out to Russia during the election.
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Fertile Ground: Lack of Broadband and Disinformation Proliferation

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Rayne
The lack of broadband infrastructure serving Americans uniformly leaves them prey to disinformation about existential matters. This country needs broadband everywhere.
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"Oversight:" Mike Flynn Lied to Protect Barbara Ledeen, Who Then Fed Disinformation to Sara Carter

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emptywheel
Emails between Mike Flynn and Barbara Ledeen raise real questions about whether her disinformation campaign was an effort to protect him, or a bid to hide her own complicity.
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