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In the case of election interference, then, Barr does not consider the publication of documents identified on a wish list that hackers subsequently steal to amount to joining a conspiracy. But in the case of Chelsea Manning's leak, his DOJ does.

Of the first four people tied to Trump's campaign who were investigated by the FBI -- Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and Paul Manafort -- the Mueller Report came to remarkably similar conclusions as the campaign did when all three were fired in 2016. That makes Bill Barr's investigation into the origins of the investigation all the more scandalous.

There are three theories of prosecution EDVA used in the superseding indictment against Julian Assange. One charges him for soliciting the leaks of stolen information, which will endanger people like Jason Leopold. One charges him for attempting to help hack and therefore obtain classified information, which is relatively risk free. And one charges him for disclosing the identities of US sources, which is dangerous because, on a smaller scale, journalists do the same.

It's 2016 all over again when the woman frontrunner is trashed by white dudes' tweets and crappy reporting. Come on already. This is an open thread.

I've grown increasingly bothered by the justification William Barr made for Trump's obstruction of the Russian investigation. Basically, the Attorney General of the United States argued that because the President was "frustrated and angered"…

Agriculture is complex even in the best of times. It's nightmarish faced with the mounting climate emergency and the crises Trump creates. This is an open thread.

The Democrats must act like a real political party. Activists have to try new ways to communicate. What we're doing now isn't working.

There's been a lot of attention to Konstantin Kilimnik's descriptions in the Mueller Report. There's been less focus on the meeting that Viktor Boyarkin, who set up a January 2017 meeting with Paul Manafort to recreate the old friendship he had with Oleg Deripaska, set up.

According to comments Bill Barr made in SJC testimony on May 1, he opened an investigation into the genesis of the Russian investigation because he believes the surveillance used in the early days of the investigation was "anemic" given how serious the threat was.