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The government still appears to be investigating Oleg Deripaska's ties to Christopher Steele.

Andrew McCabe's lawsuit against DOJ and FBI for the way he was fired is very well lawyered. DOJ could make it go away at very little cost, except the most costly: depriving Trump of one of his pettiest wins.

Republicans keep asking whether there's precedent for the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the President. That's not the right question though. The right question is whether there's precedent for the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into a major party candidate, and the precedent is clear: Hillary Clinton

In a lawsuit over the way he was fired, Peter Strzok argues that nothing has happened to NY Field Office agents who were biased against Hillary and leaked information. A FOIA from Judicial Watch may confirm his claim.

"A republic if you can keep it," said Ben Franklin. It's still on us to exercise representative democracy and demand the remaining 45% of House votes to support an impeachment inquiry. This is an open thread.

For a while there has been the assumption -- backed by a good deal of chatter -- that the government would offer Schulte a plea deal if he cooperated against WikiLeaks. On Friday, the government denied that they had.

As part of her order to force the government to give Roger Stone redacted passages from the Mueller Report, Amy Berman Jackson released a list of the pages that the government believes include references to the dissemination of stole emails. That changes the look of Flynn's firing significantly.

As Mueller confirmed in his hearings last week, the report does not show Trump to be an agent of Russia. But the Report and Mueller's own testimony does not say, one way or another, whether Russia has been able to manipulate Trump by getting him to lie to America about his entanglements with Russia.

When Garrett Graff lays out what the role of the Intelligence Community is supposed to be, the problem before us becomes more stark.