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The frothy right thinks it's really important to ask Robert Mueller about the role of the dossier in his investigation of Trump people like Michael Cohen. But the public record suggests it didn't predicate the investigation into Cohen, who was the villain of the Steele dossier.

No one has to beg for equality in a decent society.

Okay, as you may recall, the Judge William Pauley in the Southern District of New York had indicated he would release additional materials from the Cohen case there. As some background, here is our friend Adam Klasfeld of Courthouse News (if…

DOJ just told Jason Leopold that Mueller obtained the contents of around 2,300 media devices.

CNN has a piece that focuses on visitor logs when it should instead focus more on the Ecuadorian politics over Julian Assange's presence in their embassy and the inventory of devices accessible to Assange. It also

None of the internecine squabbling between House Democrats' factions gets them any closer to doing what the 2018 Blue Wave told Democrats needed to be done. When will House Dems pull out of their navel-gazing spiral?

Gina Haspel is trying to make it harder to hold the CIA accountable and legally more risky to leak classified identities to WikiLeaks. But the effort may backfire, making it easier for Assange to beat charges for leaking the identities of informants (which is a good thing).

Ann Donaldson generally used a code to not answer the House Judiciary Committee's questions to her. But the way in which she applies that code to questions about Richard Burr tipping off the White House to the FBI's investigation are quite damning.

A decent society is based on freedom from domination.

Noting our nation's grim slide this past year it's important to recall this holiday has always been aspirational, its full potential unrealized. We still have work to do.