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The Day After the Second COVID Mother's Day

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Rayne
The cards have been opened and read, the flowers admired, you made your phone call to the mothers in your life yesterday to tell them you care. Now prove you really care and follow through.
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DOJ's Failures to Follow Media Guidelines on the WaPo Seizure

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emptywheel
The 2020 seizure of some Washington Post reporters' phone records didn't comply with DOJ's policy on notice to the reporters. But given the detail that DOJ didn't succeed in obtaining their email records, it's likely the seizure didn't comply with other DOJ guidelines on media requests.
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Peter Debbins Claims He Stopped Spying for Russia in 2011

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emptywheel
In the sentencing memo for Peter Debbins, DOJ notes that Debbins claims to have quit spying for Russia in 2011, but then lays out a host of details that suggest they don't believe him.
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Did John Durham Seize Journalists' Call Records?

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emptywheel
The best explanation for a report that DOJ seized some WaPo reporters' toll records is that John Durham is seizing journalist call records.
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Radicalized by Trump: A Tale of Two Assault Defendants

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emptywheel
It's not clear whose mental illnesses Trump exacerbated worse, Landon Copeland or Anthony Antonio.
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Four Ways Billy Barr Obstructed the Investigation into Rudy Giuliani

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emptywheel
Bill Barr's various efforts to obstruct the investigation into Rudy Giuliani succeeded in delaying it by over 500 days.
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January 6: Focus on Jeff Merkley's Office and Missing Laptop

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emptywheel
Amid an increased focus on those who trashed Jeff Merkley's office on January 6, the government has moved to revoke the bail of one of the guys who was there.
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In Request for Special Master, the Lev Parnas Prosecutors Hint at Prior Filter Team Searches on Rudy

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emptywheel
In a letter asking for the appointment of a Special Master to review the content obtained in Rudy and Victoria Toensing's phones a few weeks ago, SDNY suggested they may have used just a taint team with a prior search on Rudy.
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Will Amy Berman Jackson Finally Break the Spell of OLC Feeding Bullshit FOIA Claims to DC District Judges?

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emptywheel
In her opinion ruling that DOJ has to release a memo that Bill Barr used to pretend his basis for claiming Trump had been exonerated by the Mueller Report was legally sound, she judged that several career DOJ attorneys had misrepresented the memo in question. Will this lead to more scrutiny of such DOJ claims in the future?
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Bad Habits Of Thinking Make It Hard To Form Community

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Ed Walker
Posts In This Series Chapter 5 of John Dewey’s The Public And Its Problems addresses the role of community in moving from the theory of democracy (the subject of the first 3 chapters) to a working form of democracy. Dewey says that democracy…
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DOJ Got All the Proud Boy Telegram Texts from Ethan Nordean's Phone

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emptywheel
According to a status hearing in the Proud Boys Leadership conspiracy case, the very damning Telegraph chats used in the conspiracy case all came from Ethan Nordean's phone. That means contrary to speculation, they don't have a high level person flipped in that case yet.
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January 6: On the Track of the Missing Laptops

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emptywheel
While the FBI appears to have interviewed the wrong woman in their attempt to figure out who has the laptop stolen from Nancy Pelosi during the January 6 insurrection, discovery correspondence in another case suggests they have a lead on who stole Jeff Merkley's laptop.
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When No Means Yes: The Flynn and McFarland Response to Information to Paul Manafort

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emptywheel
A KT McFarland email released last night really demonstrates how the Mueller Report put fairly damning communications in favorable light.
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Seth Rich Conspiracists Liberate Records Showing DOJ Believes They're Conspiracists

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emptywheel
Some Seth Rich conspirators liberated some FBI documents on Seth Rich that explain that one of their conspiracies arises out of the way FOIA and time work.
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Will the GOP Demand Ron Johnson Be Stripped of Committee Assignments for Ignoring a Defensive Briefing?

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emptywheel
According to the GOP, Eric Swalwell should be stripped of his committee assignment because he received an FBI briefing that he was being recruited by a Chinese spy. They argue that even though after the warning, Swalwell cooperated with the FBI and had nothing to do with her again. But by Ron Johnson's own admission, when he got a similar briefing, he blew it off.
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The Crossroads of Insurrection: The Senate Chamber Insurrection Defendants

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emptywheel
QAnon may have been more important in and successful at breaching the Senate itself than either the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers.
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Ethan Nordean's Funny Idea of Exculpatory

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emptywheel
The Proud Boys seem to think it's exculpatory that they started recruiting people to come to DC in December to not attend Trump's rally.
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The George Nader Problem: NSA Removes the Child Exploitation Content from Its Servers

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emptywheel
Among the more baffling details in the recently released Section 702 reauthorization is the description of the approach NSA has chosen to take evidence of child exploitation off its servers.
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The NFL Draft 2021 and Portuguese GP

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bmaz
Down to the stretch in the NBA, and a week from now the order will be pretty fascinating. Some fun stuff in MLB, what with the Cubs Rizzo striking out MVP Frederick Freeman. Both were incredible sports about the encounter, and it was great.…
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