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A footnote in the SDNY warrants investigating campaign finance crimes reveals that that US Attorneys office treated Trump Organization email hosted at Microsoft differently than Mueller treated it.

It's possible Hope Hicks is outright lying about knowing about the hush payments Michael Cohen made to protect earlier lies she told in 2017, before the whole hush payment story broke wide open. But it is certainly possible that if you work for Donald Trump all the sex scandals merge into one, either in fact, or in years old memories.

Democrats on HJC and HPSCI are reportedly assuming Mueller will successfully dodge pointed questions to which a truthful answer will be very illuminating and separating discussion of the cover up from the actions hidden by that cover up. I think that's a mistake.

There's a redaction in SDNY's letter accompanying the release of the Michael Cohen materials that raises new questions for me about the disposition of AMI's crimes associated with Donald Trump's campaign finance crimes.

Roger Stone's lawyers effectively admitted yesterday they didn't really need the CrowdStrike reports they've used to stoke conspiracy theories to defend Stone.

Now that the government is trying Bijan Kian without Mike Flynn's cooperation, they're moving to compel production of documents that he had previous provided voluntarily.

The news that Flynn and Turkish cut-out Ekim Alptekin had more ties than previously known makes some of his claims to Rob Kelner -- which his current firebreather lawyer Sidney Powell just released thinking it helped him -- may actually prove that he lied.

Sidney Powell made an claim in a June 27 meeting with Bijan Kian's prosecutors designed to blow up the prosecution. But she still wants to claim -- the cooperation schedule notwithstanding -- that her client is cooperating in that prosecution.

When Mike Flynn hired new counsel, it became clear he was ... up to something. Now that something might get him -- and possibly even his son (concerns about whom motivated Flynn to cooperate in the first place) -- sent to prison. Or, it might…

The U.S. meets the Netherlands today. Grab a beverage and watch along with us. This is an open thread.