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The Dog Drained My Pool to Try to Destroy Surveillance Video

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emptywheel
Jack Smith reportedly wants to know whether Trump's long-time maintenance guy drained the swimming pool in an attempt to destroy surveillance footage.
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The Dishonest and Incompetent FBI Work John Durham Learned to Love

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emptywheel
The evidence submitted in the Michael Sussmann trial showed that those in the Cyber Division who first assessed the anomalies made clear errors and unconvincing claims about their awareness of the DNC's involvement. And yet, John Durham covered that up.
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FBI Cyber Division's Enduring Blue Pill Mystery

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emptywheel
There may be a blank Blue Thumb Drive in the FBI's evidence lockers where Rodney Joffe's Alfa Bank data should be.
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ONLY TIME WILL TELL: Seditionist Oath Keepers sentenced amid tears and promises of redemption

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Brandi Buchman
Light sentences were doled out to several crying Oath Keeper seditionists over two days of high drama in a federal courtroom.
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Tim Parlatore Quit After Trump Lawyers Couldn't Find the Iran Document

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emptywheel
Tim Parlatore's decision to quit because of Boris Epshteyn's role as a gatekeeper looks very different given the news that he and other Trump lawyers haven't been able to find the Iran document Trump claimed to have in 2021.
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In March, DOJ Asked Trump for the Iran Document; In April, DOJ Asked for His Saudi Business Records

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emptywheel
In March, DOJ asked Trump for the Iran document he bragged he had at Bedminster in July 2021. He couldn't find it. In April, DOJ asked for details of his business ties with, among other countries, the Saudis.
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John Durham Fabricated His Basis to Criminalize Oppo Research

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emptywheel
The entire Durham investigation was built on a fabrication about what a Russian intelligence report said about Hillary.
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Lordy, There Are Tapes [of Trump Acknowledging He Had Stolen Classified Documents]!

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emptywheel
All trials are about prosecutors telling stories. This incident is a story so good that Trump tried to tell it himself, and in the process got recorded admitting he had stolen classified documents. 
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Leave No Stone Unturned

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Rayne
Thinking about my hard-ass uncle on this Memorial Day, and a duty to the future.
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All GOP Horserace Analysis Is Useless without Consideration of Possible Indictments

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emptywheel
Any horserace analysis of the GOP primary that fails to at least consider how potential indictments might affect the primary is utterly useless.
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Three Things: Crustpunk Nazi Bar Update, $42K Extortion Edition

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Rayne
It’s been a while since we had a chat about the crustpunk Nazi bar known as Twitter. The dead-ending bird decided to press the issue for us.
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OATHS BROKEN, OATH KEEPERS BOWED: Sentences for 2 more in marquee Jan. 6 conspiracy case

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Brandi Buchman
Raw emotions positively dominated a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. this week as the Justice Department secured significant sentences for two more Oath Keepers involved in a larger conspiracy to forcibly stop America’s transfer of power…
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'NOTHING HAS CHANGED, MR. RHODES, NOTHING HAS CHANGED': Seditious Oath Keeper Elmer Rhodes sentenced to 18 years

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Brandi Buchman
After expressing zero remorse and heralding himself to a federal judge as a “political prisoner” who “like Donald Trump only committed the crime of opposing those who are destroying our country,” Oath Keeper Elmer Stewart Rhodes was…
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Stewart Rhodes: Yale Law Grad, Seditionist, Terrorist, and Ongoing Threat to Democracy

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emptywheel
In sentencing Stewart Rhodes, Judge Mehta called him an ongoing peril to the very fabric of democracy.
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How CNN Inculpated John Durham While Purportedly Exonerating Trump

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emptywheel
In an otherwise problematic early report on the results of the Durham Report, CNN caught Durham in two of the Special Counsel's numerous lapses of precisely the standards he attempted to criminalize with the FBI.
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Long Live The Queen

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bmaz
This is a guest post by long-time community member Rosalind. Rest in peace, Queen.
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RIP Riverboat Queen

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bmaz
As you may have heard, Tina turner has passed at the age of 83. It is pretty hard to describe how incredible, and important, she was over so many decades.
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Between the Annual Release of FISA Statistics and the Release of the FISA 702 Opinion, FBI Rolled Up Turla

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emptywheel
There's a physical search FISA order released with the FISA 702 one that sounds like it pertains to a cybersecurity application.
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ABC Reports that Sources Familiar Say 2 + 2 = 5

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emptywheel
Trump milked grievance on his social media platform yesterday in advance of being indicted. ABC did him the favor of claiming he was doing something else.
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The Potential International Grift Hiding behind the Stolen Documents Investigation

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emptywheel
Investigative developments in the stolen document case reported out in the last several weeks have suggested that this investigation may not be the obstruction investigation everyone is treating it as. Jack Smith may only get to obstruction via a conspiracy to hoard classified documents. 
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