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There's no second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and there never really was a first wave. Like generals always fighting the last war, that's a metaphor we lifted from the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Whether it was a good metaphor then or not, it's not…

Attorney General Bill Barr's sworn testimony as of today is that he's not familiar with the obstruction case against Trump and -- arguably -- never read it, or at least is unfamiliar with the case it lays out about why, if Trump gave Stone clemency, it would be a crime. 

DOJ has argued that DOJ would face irreparable harm if they had to explain their actions in the Mike Flynn case under oath. Which is reason enough that HJC should focus on that question when Bill Barr comes to testify tomorrow.

International trade can improve all our lives, not just the lives of the rich and powerful.

Last week the breaking news in international political/media drama was the Russians hacking vaccine research in Europe and America, and on Tuesday the DOJ charged two Chinese hackers for hacking what Politico called "hundreds of millions of…

Of the seven pages describing ongoing investigations in a DOJ filing in the EPIC/BuzzFeed FOIA for the Mueller Report, one of the only unredacted pits reveals some redactions pertain to the Juliasn Assange prosecution.

Today, Billy Barr is claiming that he's infuriated by the attack on Judge Esther Salas, which killed her son. But earlier this year, as part of his effort to go easy on Roger Stone, Barr dismissed the import of threats on judges.

I went to bed in tears last night. They weren't tears of pain or shock or outrage. They were the tears you cry when the last of your grandparents "goes home." They're the tears of grief at the loss you've suffered, and the tears that say "It's your turn now." You have to tell the stories you learned at their knees, as you go on to make a difference in the lives of others as they made a difference in your life. I'm still in tears this morning, because I've got lots of stories to tell.

Peter Strzok is the villain of the narrative about a Deep State coup targeting Donald Trump. Yet Lindsey Graham just released yet another document showing that -- whatever Strzok's personal distaste for Trump -- he continued to push back against unjustified allegations about Trump at least as late as February 2017.