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Yesterday, Jim Trusty started unilaterally blowing off Raymond Dearie's deadlines.

A reporter who was searched by the FBI in April told me fifteen years ago that "sometimes we fall in love with our sources."

The same frothy right wingers who complain that Carter Page was unfairly targeted by a warrant that John Durham falsely claimed Igor Danchenko caused seem not to have thought through all the warrants that Durham boasted of getting, including at least one targeting Sergei Millian.

In the wake of the government's accusations that Josh Schulte had loaded CSAM materials onto his laptop, the government and his lawyer are squabbling about simple things like consulting on post-trial motions schedule.

Among the details revealed at a Special Master status conference is that Trump has claimed Executive Privilege over a document he claims to be a personal document.

It is unclear what the jury in the Igor Danchenko case thinks of the confusing nested set of claims they were presented last week; we may get a verdict today. But it is fitting that John Durham ended his own attempt to find someone to blame for investigating things that -- in this trial -- he said should be investigated, by lying about the results of the Mueller investigation.

It's peak fall color here in Michigan -- a good time to enjoy autumn's best and air out the trash. This is an open thread.

In dismissing the charge pertaining to Chuck Dolan yesterday, Judge Trenga has ruled, the statement that Igor Danchenko made that Durham claimed was a lie was literally true. Durham made of that literally true statement a bogus pee tape panic that has done breathtaking amounts of damage. 

Among the records that Igor Danchenko's lawyers have shown John Durham withheld from witnesses was a communication that Durham himself included in his Danchenko indictment.

This post is dedicated to content and comments related to Day 9 of the House J6 Committee's public hearings — what may be the last public hearing of the committee's investigation.