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The Frothy Right Embraces CIA's Unmasking the Identities of Political Candidates

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John Ratcliffe just declassified documents that strongly suggest the very first person unmasked by CIA in reporting shared with the Crossfire Hurricane team was ... Hillary Clinton.
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Jeff Sessions HAD Shut Down the Investigation into Russian Interference

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emptywheel
The Mueller Report describes how, in June 2017, Trump tried to get Jeff Sessions to shut down any investigation into Russian interference in the election. A passage of Andrew Weissmann's book describes that, when he and Jeannie Rhee checked into what DOJ was doing at about the same time, DOJ wasn't actually investigating it.
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Government Caught Between a Recusal Motion and Desperation

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emptywheel
Emmet Sullivan got the government to weigh in in favor of ruling on the motion to dismiss immediately.
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The Desperation of the Jeffrey Jensen Investigation Already Made Clear that John Durham Won't Indict

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emptywheel
Even if John Durham wanted to prosecute someone, the desperate way Jeffrey Jensen has conducted a parallel investigation using the same evidence has undermined any chance that will happen.
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Sidney Powell Switches Her FARA Villain Mid-Stream

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emptywheel
Sidney Powell has switched villains in her Mike Flynn FARA story mid-stream.
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Yet Another Warning from Michigan: FBI Busted Plot to Kidnap "That Woman"

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Rayne
Timing of the seditious terror plot against Michigan's Gov. Whitmer and events which may have inspired this idiocy don't seem to correlate well. This wasn't about emergency orders related to COVID-19.
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Sidney Powell Falsely Claims All Jeffrey Jensen's Errors Have Been Corrected

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Sidney Powell wants Judge Sullivan to stop receiving information about how Jeffrey Jensen is feeding her false claims to use against Trump's enemies.
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The "Scanned" Andrew McCabe Notes Weren't [Just] "Scanned"

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emptywheel
DOJ's explanation for their addition of a probably incorrect date to Andrew McCabe's notes doesn't make sense. Nor do their excuses for added dates explain the third instance of an added date, which was added to a redaction.
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2020 Vice Presidential Debate: In the Land of the Shoshone

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Rayne
This post is dedicated to discussion of the Vice Presidential debate between current VP Mike Pence and Democratic VP candidate Senator Kamala Harris.
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Sidney Powell Submits Evidence Proving Materiality of Flynn's Lies

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emptywheel
In her never-ending pursuit of proving her client lied to protect Donald Trump, Sidney Powell just proved that the first question the FBI needed to answer after discovering Mike Flynn's lies was whether he had consulted with Mar-a-Lago before telling them.
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Sidney Powell Has Become No More than a Channel for the Fevered Rantings of Her Twitter Followers

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emptywheel
Sidney Powell has started culling arguments for legal briefs from what she finds in the fevered swamps of her own Twitter feed.
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McCabe Casts Doubt on the Date Added to His Notes, Too

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emptywheel
Jeffrey Jensen wants you to believe his FBI Agents -- FBI Agents!!! -- are so dumb that they don't know what Andrew McCabe was up to on May 10, 2017.
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DOJ Admits Jeffrey Jensen's Team Added Erroneous Date to Peter Strzok's Notes, Asks for Mulligan

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emptywheel
DOJ says Jeffrey Jensen's team added the erroneous date to the Peter Strzok notes, without explaining why they added an erroneous date they've submitted evidence they know to be erroneous.
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DOJ Decides Leaked, Inaccurate DOJ IG Materials Are Awful

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emptywheel
DOJ, which has fired multiple FBI officials based in part on inaccurate DOJ IG Reports, and who improperly leaked DOJ IG investigative materials as part of that effort, is now complaining about inaccurate DOJ IG Reports and improper leaks.
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Van Halen

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bmaz
Not by any choice, we revert to being a music blog. They were originally four, and they came out of Pasadena/Hollywood. A friend went to high school with them. David Lee Roth may have been the lead singer, but Eddie Van Halen was always the…
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Federalist Society Super-Spreader Plausible Deniability

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emptywheel
The White House is only doing enough contact tracing to admit the possibility that Trump might have been COVID-positive while debating 77-year old Joe Biden. But that's designed to hide the possibility he's the one who got everyone else sick at the Amy Coney Barrett party.
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Bill Barnett's Second Gratuitous Swipe at the Mueller Investigation Collapses

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emptywheel
FBI Agent William Barnett's complaints about his Mueller team colleagues thus far have only discredited his own credibility.
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October COVID Surprise: So Much Bullshit, So Little Time [UPDATE-4]

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Rayne
Here's a new post because the last post's comment thread is now unwieldy, and there's more fresh Trump bullshit to wade through.
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What A Week Trash Talk

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bmaz
Since the period where there was no sports to trash talk about, and this turned into a music blog, it has been hard to get back into the normal trash groove. Let's try to get back to it, because everything else is botched up. The NBA has…
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Andrew McCabe Delays Testimony to SJC, Calling In-Person Testimony a "Grave Safety Risk"

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emptywheel
Andrew McCabe says the Senate Judiciary Committee poses such a grave safety risk because of its COVID cluster that he will postpone testimony that had originally been scheduled for Tuesday.
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