
GRU Adopted the Identity of Two UK Journalists to Phish the OPCW
The only detail about the GRU hack of the OPCW and Porton Downs included in a new GRU indictment is that the phishes laying the groundwork for the attack were done using spoofed identities of real journalists.

Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Trolling for Russia
Roger Stone has played a key role in undermining the Russian attribution of the 2016 election year operation. But the SSCI and Mueller Reports barely mention how closely Stone's efforts mirror those of WikiLeaks.

Dr. Fauci Has No More Fucks Left To Give
This point was always going to arrive. An actually educated and aware specialist trying to deal with an obtuse oaf.
"The impact of a vaccine, he said, would depend on both its efficacy and the proportion of people who take it. Fauci cautions…

The Public In Dewey's The Public And Its Problems
Dewey's definitions start with understanding human actions in the context of the humans they affect.

Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Steve Bannon and Dirty Tricks
Thus far in my Rat-Fucker Rashomon story, I've shown strong evidence that Roger Stone not only knew that John Podesta's emails were coming, but knew or had the contents of some documents pertaining to an attack he had already been making on…

Steve Bannon, Guccifer 2.0, Glenn Greenwald, and Me: How Glenn Greenwald Defends "Smear Artist & Cowards"
When Glenn got treated the way the NYPost treats others, he accused those who posted from authentic documents of being "smear artists & cowards." But when Steve Bannon does it, he defends its right to go viral.

Docket Tea Leaves: Manafort, Bannon, and Flynn
There are some curious happenings in various dockets -- which may mean nothing.

Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Roger Stone's Mid-Burglary Foreknowledge
This post showed that the SSCI Report ignored a lot of evidence (laid out in the affidavits) that Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone had specific details -- possibly even the John Podesta emails themselves -- pertaining to Joule Holdings, which they…

Tuscaloosa Gets The Birmingham Blues
The Saban Spreader:

Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Jerome Corsi's Prescience about the Content of John Podesta's Emails
On October 13, Roger Stone published a Jerome Corsi post under his own name that Corsi suggested had been started by October 6. It relied on documents, however, that didn't become public until October 11.

"That's Rudy." Trump Proves, Yet Again, That He Would Just Ignore a Defensive Briefing
For much of the last three years, Trump has claimed that, if only he had been given a defensive briefing about Russia's efforts to help his campaign (rather than launch investigations into four men who all turned out to be selling Trump out to one or another foreign country), he would have done something about it. By ignoring the warnings he got about Rudy being targeted for disinformation, Trump just made it clear that was not true.

2020 Presidential Debates: Missing 'The Capital of Latin America' [UPDATE-1]
Here's a post so emptywheel community members can discuss the canceled second of three presidential debates — I mean, town hall on ABC with Biden and interview with Trump on NBC.

SCOTUS Nomination: Coney Barrett's Beeswax and Goose Quills
Originalists like Amy Coney Barrett are not up to the task of deciding issues of contemporary law using criteria shaped by goose quills and beeswax.

Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Accessing Hollywood Cover-Ups of the Russian Attribution
Rather than telling us what the Mueller team learned about Roger Stone's influence on the timing of the John Podesta release on October 7, 2016, the Mueller Report provided a comedy routine featuring Jerome Corsi's shifting claims about that day. It may have done so to hide that Stone timed the Podesta release to cover-up the US government's attribution of the DNC hack to Russia.
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The Frothy Right Proves Trump Buried 7 Details of Russian Outreach by Wailing about Carter Page
The spreadsheet attempting to validate the Steele dossier shows that the FBI used information collected under the Carter Page FISA orders to corroborate or rule out claims in the dossier seven different times.

Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Trump's Direct Line to the Rat-Fucking
The Mueller Report laid out the case that Trump was obstructing an investigation into his own role in cheating to win in 2016 by trading a pardon for Roger Stone's silence. The SSCI Report lays out just how much Trump was obstructing.

SCOTUS Nomination: Amy Coney Barrett's 2nd Day Before Senate Judiciary Committee
That's a pretty dull head, isn't it, for what's at stake, for the price Americans have paid for the GOP's SCOTUS nominee?

Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Four Stories about Roger Stone (Introduction)
Thus far, four different stories have been told about what Roger Stone did in 2016. None of those stories tells all the truth. But reading them together gets us closer to the truth.

Roger Stone Was Parroting That Russian Intelligence Report a Month before FBI Got It
Yesterday, I noted several key problems with the way the frothy right is trying to politicize some reports that John Ratcliffe just declassified: Russian intelligence analysis picked up before July 28 ascribes to Hillary foreknowledge of what…

Roger Stone's Remarkable Interest in Donald Trump's Foreign Policy
At two key moments in Trump's first election campaign, a guy with no known foreign policy chops sure seemed to have an acute interest in dictating the candidate's foreign policy views.