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Keith Ablow's Unallocated Space in Hunter Biden's Memory

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emptywheel
In the third part of Gus Dimitrelos' report* on the laptop attributed to Hunter Biden, he examines what he could find in the unallocated space of the laptop -- the place where deleted files go on computers until they eventually get written over.…
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Hunter Biden's Matryoshka Cell Phone: How the IRS and Frothers Got Hunter's Encrypted iPhone Content

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emptywheel
The frothers generally claim that "Hunter Biden's" "laptop" is authentic because it is registered to an account, [email protected], registered to him. But the more interesting question is how that account got access to a different iCloud account, registered to the email [email protected].
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Andrew DeFilippis Had a Role in the Prosecution of Gal Luft's Co-Conspirator-1

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emptywheel
Andrew DeFilippis was the source of the worst abuses on the John Durham investigation. And he managed the classified aspects of the prosecution of Gal Luft's co-conspirator-1, Patrick Ho.
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James Comer's Imaginary Whistleblower Friend, Gal Luft, Was Charged Last November for Lying in that March 2019 Meeting

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emptywheel
James Comer's imaginary whistleblower friend was charged -- last November -- for lying at the meeting where he claims to have shared dirt on Hunter Biden.
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Nine Months of Surveillance Video: Trump's Newfound Worries His Discovery Will Leak

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emptywheel
Trump says the discovery in his stolen documents case -- which includes 9 months of surveillance footage -- is too sensitive to entrust to vendors whose job is ensuring such discovery doesn't leak.
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When "Lock Her Up!" becomes "Wait Till Later!"

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emptywheel
Trump says he's too busy running for President to stand trial to determine whether he made false promises to protect classified information the last time he ran, only to use access he obtained as President to steal the nation's secrets.
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Stanley Woodward Tests Judge Aileen Cannon's Patience

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emptywheel
With his first filing in the Walt Nauta case, Stanley Woodward has decided to test -- tactically -- Judge Aileen Cannon's patience.
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The Blind Squirrel's Nut: Chuck Grassley Unwittingly Debunks Bill Barr

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emptywheel
Chuck Grassley has unwittingly revealed that the briefing of an FD-1023 that Pittsburgh FBI agents gave David Weiss' office days after Rudy Giuliani revealed his tie to the "Hunter Biden" "laptop"--which Bill Barr spun as an investigation into the bribery allegation in it--instead came as the office was reviewing the damage to the tax investigation of Rudy's political hit job.
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Gary Shapley and Hunter Biden's Colleague Named "Z"

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emptywheel
Around the same time someone downloaded Hunter Biden's iCloud account, someone restored his contacts list.
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The Laptop Everyone Knows as Hunter Biden's Appears to Have Been Deleted Starting February 15, 2019

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emptywheel
In January 2019, the Gmail account Hunter Biden used to contact sex workers took over his iCloud account and ordered all his content for download. The next month, the data on the Hunter Biden laptop was deleted.
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The Fifteenth Amendment

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Ed Walker
The weakest possible voting rights amendment
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Walt Nauta and the Single Box

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emptywheel
One thing appears in the Trump indictment that doesn't appear in the search warrant affidavit from last year: on May 22, 2022, Walt Nauta spent half an hour in the storage closet, then left with a single box.
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The Technical Oddities of the FBI's Exploitation of Hunter Biden's Laptop

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emptywheel
For some reason, the FBI deemed it necessary to buy a new laptop and install the hard drive from the laptop once owned by Hunter Biden before it could image the laptop.
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Hanging by Meta's Threads

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Rayne
You may have heard the buzz about Meta's new microblogging platform, Threads. How will Threads eventually interact with the open source federated universe including Mastodon?
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Serving as Julian Assange's Unwitting Data Mule to Israel Shamir Is Not Journalism

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emptywheel
James Ball describes that the FBI wants him to testify about how he served as an unwitting data mule for Julian Assange, providing State Cables to Israel Shamir.
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Trump's Stolen Documents: Newly Unsealed Numbers

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emptywheel
DOJ only obtained two months of surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago in a year ago -- and other interesting newly unsealed numbers.
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Double Booked: Whistleblower X Described Inappropriate Presidential Interference ... Back in 2019

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emptywheel
Whistleblower X, the IRS agent claiming misconduct in the Hunter Biden investigation, did provide evidence of that Presidential misconduct had killed the case. But that evidence implicates Donald Trump, not Joe Biden.
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Gary Shapley's Goosey Gander: When Investigators Want Treatment They Don't Accord Others

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emptywheel
Purported IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley wants to be treated differently than he treated -- and is still treating -- Hunter Biden.
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Repairing the Faults in this Nation's Foundation

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Rayne
Last year and this year, however, critical faults in the founders’ efforts to create a more perfect union have been revealed, and in a particularly ugly way.
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