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Reportedly, some Democrats are pushing to have Justin Amash among the Impeachment Managers in the Senate. As a constituent, I think that's a great idea.

Time is closing on the joy that is the Black Hole in Oakland. The NFL will not be the same without it.

Impeachment is about a clash between the future American and the past. And it's unclear who will win this battle for America. 

Filings by Lev Parnas' co-defendant, Andrey Kukushkin, suggest FISA may have been used against one or more of the alleged co-conspirators in that case.

As part of its claim that the FBI withheld exculpatory information in Carter Page's FISA application, the DOJ IG Report described George Papadopoulos' interactions with Stefan Halper in mid-September 2016. When Halper twice asked Papadopoulos,…

Yevgeniy Prigozhin's trolls complain that if they have to comply with a subpoena they may commit treason in Russia.

Mike Flynn got investigated because he was one possible answer to the question of how George Papadopoulos got advance notice of Russia's hack-and-leak operation.

This report from the Washington Post on lies from the military closes the loop with the report from the Times on lies from analysts in the media. Senior military figures lie about how wars are going. They eventually retire and then get lucrative jobs with defense contractors. From these positions, they sometimes pose as "analysts" to spout similar falsehoods in the media, prolonging futile wars but enriching the contractors. I wonder if the magnitude of the lies told while in the military determines the size of the salary once they are hired by the contractors. The net result, though, is futile wars that can't be won, but with endless spending on them anyway.

Instead of making peace with Russia, Kurt Volker was instead trying to help Paul Manafort dodge accountability for 2016.