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In spite of the fact that the FBI got key warnings about Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio that never got shared with FBI's Washington Field Office, in spite of the fact that the FBI had 26 informants on site but only asked three for information, the FBI contested DOJ Inspector General's critique that it should have done more to work its informants in advance of the attack.

The recommendations in a DOJ Inspector General Report on leak investigations might give Congress further protection to leak. But it also might give aspiring FBI Director Kash Patel an excuse to prioritize prosecutions of journalists, before his former Congressional colleagues.

There were five cases in which fabricated evidence about Hunter Biden was ingested by FBI. Most was not used by investigators, which the House GOP then used to politicize the case against him. But at least two did have an affect on his prosecution.

The glee surrounding Brian Thompson's death is not unprecedented -- Donald Trump campaigned on a similar mob glee, targeting Paul Pelosi, to get elected. And then he installed a bunch of billionaires to start looting. And politicians like Elizabeth Warren have already suggested some "broad public solutions" to that looting.

You can't pardon your way out of Trump's attack on rule of law. It's going to take much harder work than that.

What kind of aspiring J Edgar Hoover can't even alphabetize his enemies list properly?

Judge Mark Scarsi's complaint that Joe Biden rewrote history in his press release announcing Hunter's pardon if he had not done the same in his ruling that Hunter's prosecution was not vindictive.

The paper owned by defense contractor Jeff Bezos chose to publish seven mostly worthless posts on Hunter Biden's pardon and not one on allegations that aspiring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth couldn't even manage two medium non-profits without financially ruining them.

Whatever else you think about the Hunter Biden case and the way Joe Biden pardoned him, it is crystal clear proof that the thing defenders of democracy swear they'll do in a second Trump term -- rise to the defense of those targeted for political prosecution -- they already failed to do.

The means by which Trump is attempting to install one of his chief propagandists as FBI Director is as important as the pick itself.