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SSCI's Timidity on Trump Tower Moscow

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emptywheel
Unlike the other sections of its investigation, the SSCI Report on the multiple lucrative real estate deals Trump chased while running for President doesn't explain the counterintelligence risk.
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SSCI Confirms that Mueller Considered CFAA Charges for Don Jr.

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emptywheel
The SSCI Report makes clear that a long redaction in the Mueller Report discusses how the Mueller team (correctly) decided not to charge Don Jr with CFAA violation.
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Trump Tried to Claim Privilege Over a Document Flynn Claimed to Not Remember

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emptywheel
Don McGahn made a crazy ass claim of privilege over a document tied to two meetings that Mike Flynn claimed not to remember.
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Work In Progress: Saving the USPS

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Rayne
Trump donor and appointee Louis DeJoy is deliberately and maliciously destroying the U.S. Postal Service; negligence can't explain these actions. We've got work to do to save the USPS.
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"These Actions Have Targeted Not Only against Russia, But Also Against the President Elect"

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emptywheel
We don't need to speculate about Russia cultivating Trump's hostility to the IC, because we've got evidence they started doing so weeks before Trump was even inaugurated.
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Billy Barr's DOJ Throws the Book at Someone Not Named Mike Flynn for Reneging on a Plea Agreement

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emptywheel
The government wants to lard on terrorism charges against Minh Quang Pham because he availed himself of a SCOTUS precedent to try to get his sentence lessened.
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Page's Intelligence Officers, Plural, Versus His Serial Willingness to Be Recruited

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emptywheel
According to the DOJ IG Report, Carter Page probably did not tell the CIA about being recruited by a second Russian intelligence officer. But that means he likely provided information on multiple other suspected Russian intelligence officer earlier in time.
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How Durham Gets to Intent on False Statements with Kevin Clinesmith

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emptywheel
Kevin Clinesmith is not charged with intentionally lying about whether Carter Page was a CIA source. He's charged with intentionally using a false document.
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Reviews of The Deficit Myth

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Ed Walker
Reviewers try to come to grips (or not) with the insights of Modern Monetary Theory.
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The Clinesmith Information Suggests that John Durham Misunderstands His Investigation

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emptywheel
In the Kevin Clinesmith Information, John Durham made the same mistake that DOJ IG made, mistaking a counterintelligence investigation for a criminal one. His entire investigation may be based on embarrassing mistake.
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There's Lots of Reason to Think Steve Bannon Lied; But He May Also Have Told the Truth, Once

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emptywheel
Among the people SSCI referred for further investigation is Steve Bannon. But there's reason to believe he told the truth, at least once.
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Bill Barr Deems 11 Months to Charge False Statements, "the Proper Pace"

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emptywheel
According to Bill Barr, 13 months is a proper pace for charging false statements, meaning the Mueller Investigation was actually really quick by comparison.
Photo: Pavan Trikutam via Unsplash
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Three Things: They Look Like Phones [UPDATE-1]

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Rayne
Those three things sure look like phones -- like something you should be using to make phone calls ASAP. Call about what, you might ask? How about the U.S. Post Office?
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Not the Right Kind of Monster, Says the Racist [UPDATE-2]

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Rayne
A once-respected news organization has now become cursed by its terminal adherence to bothsides-ism, in which monsters are permitted equal time.
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A Newfound Obsession with Paul Manafort's iCloud Account

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emptywheel
For over a year after the end of the Mueller investigation, some material pertaining to Paul Manafort has been stored somewhere other than standard FBI evidentiary files, inaccessible to normal searches on DOJ systems.
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Jeff Wall: It Would Cause Attorney General Barr Irreparable Harm If He Had to Reveal His Secret Reason He Moved to Dismiss Flynn's Prosecution

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emptywheel
Today Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall claimed that DOJ would suffer irreparable harm if they had to explain why they moved to dismiss Flynn's prosecution AND ALSO admitted there were secret reasons Barr was trying to hide.
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Semi-Open Thread: Biden's Vice President Will Be... [UPDATE-4]

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Rayne
It's that time - the VP announcement has been made. Bring your comments about the Democratic Party's VP nominee here in this thread alone though other topics are welcome.
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Hurricane COVID-19: GOP's Fiscal Restraint Pisses into the Winds

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Rayne
Trump, Meadows, Mnuchin...they just don't get it. They are unable to lead in the face of this massive ongoing catastrophe which has wiped more than 162,000 American lives off the map, even though they had experts and forecasts.
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Trump's Latest Executive Orders: Head Fakes and Head Games

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Rayne
The White House isn't interested in addressing the pandemic's economic problems any more than they are interested in addressing the pandemic itself. It's snowing the media with head games and propping up Trump using head fakes while letting the country burn.
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Social Security And Other Entitlements

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Ed Walker
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP are essential sources of funds for huge numbers of us. Republicans use them to scare old people.
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