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Hatchet Speed Arrested on a Small Part of his $50,000 "Panic Buying" Arsenal
DOJ just arrested Hatchet Speed, a formerly cleared defense contractor and January 6 trespasser who continues to train at Andrews Air Force Base in his job in the Navy Reserve, on felony firearms charges. He's another example why January 6 trespassers remain an urgent threat.
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Team Trump Knows Details of the Investigation that Jay Bratt Does Not -- and Trump's Already Leaking Them
Marco Rubio falsely claimed that only the Justice Department knows what was the FBI seized in Trump's leatherbound box on August 8. That's obviously false. Trump himself knows what he had stashed away. But as of last Thursday, there are things that Trump's team knows that prosecutor Jay Bratt does not. And Trump is already leaking about it.
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NARA May Have Pre-Existing Legal Obligations with Respect to Documents Covered by Aileen Cannon's Order
There are at least four legal requests pending at NARA -- two sets of subpoenas pertaining to January 6, discovery requests pertaining to Tom Barrack's prosecution, and a subpoena from Peter Strzok -- that might represent legal obligations on the rightful owner of the 11,282 government documents seized from Mar-a-Lago on August 8 that pre-dates Judge Cannon's order limiting access to them.
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Aileen Cannon Prioritized Donald Trump's Reputation over CIA Assets' Lives
Donald Trump has already been given 18 months during which his failure to prevent leaks of highly classified documents could get people killed. Yesterday, Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that -- to protect him from merely hypothetical leaks -- he must be given more time to get people killed.
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Judge Aileen Cannon's Funny Ideas about Being Owned
In order to shut down a criminal investigation into why Trump stole highly classified documents, Aileen Cannon has totally upended the property structures before her, presumptively granting Trump ownership rights even she admits she cannot give him.
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Aileen Cannon Calls an Investigation into "What's Literally a Stolen Diary" ... "Politicized"
Aileen Cannon believes that an investigation into the theft of tax and medical records from Ashley Biden must be politicized, even if it was predicated under Bill Barr and Jeffrey Rosen.
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Judge Aileen Cannon Thinks 64 Tax and Medical Records No Investigator Has Read are More Important than 11,282 Stolen Government Documents
Judge Aileen Cannon thinks the privacy interest Trump has in some MAGA hats and tax records the investigative team hasn't seen outweigh the government's interest in criminally investigating the 11,282 stolen documents seized on August 8.
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Evan Corcoran Keeps Arguing that Evan Corcoran Didn't Do a Diligent Search
Trump's lawyers, including Evan Corcoran, keep claiming they have no idea what was in the boxes seized on August 8 or where they were stored. But in June, Corcoran told the FBI he knew what was stored where.
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"Desperate at Best:" Igor Danchenko Starts Dismantling John Durham's Case against Him
In a motion to dismiss the indictment against him, Igor Danchenko reveals that investigators never even asked him about several things that are central to John Durham's indictment against him.
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On Serena
Not really a Trash Talk. The stage is changing in women's tennis. Serena beat Kontaviet, which was kind of unexpected. But lost to Ajla Tomljanovic. Not sure that was unexpected. Time comes for all of us. Even Serena. Long ago, Serena came for…
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The FBI Seized No Boxes with Press Clippings that Postdate November 2020
There are press clippings in every box seized from Mar-a-Lago, right along with the government documents. But according to the FBI inventory, not a single one of those press clippings comes from after November 2020.
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Beryl Howell Says the Surveillance Video Subpoena Was June 24, Not June 22
In Judge Beryl Howell's order unsealing the grand jury materials surrounding two subpoenas served on representatives of Trump, she indicated that Trump may be lying about the date of the second one.
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Index And Introduction To The Subject And Power By Michel Foucault
Foucault writes about power relations, something we don't see in The Dawn Of Everything
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Return to Sender: DOJ Seized Evidence that Up to 90 Highly Sensitive Documents May Have Disappeared
In addition to all the classified documents DOJ seized on August 8, they seized 46 empty CLASSIFIED document folders and 42 empty "Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide" folders. Each of those is a highly sensitive -- and now missing -- document.
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Kellye SoRelle: Oath Keeper Capper or Potential Pivot?
Kellye SoRelle was charged, by herself, in a conspiracy to obstruct the vote count on January 6. Undoubtedly, DOJ believes it can prove she conspired with the Oath Keepers. But do they intend to prove she conspired with others, including lawyers involved in the fake elector plots?
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No One Puts Roger Stone in a Box
The DOJ response to Trump's bid for a Special Master suggests that the clemency for Roger Stone that Trump apparently stashed in his desk drawer is something he doesn't want to be made public.
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That Bratt-I-Am, That Bratt-I-Am, I Do Not Like That Bratt-I-Am
In the far-away land of Mar-A-Lago
sits a once-vaunted leader, now brought very low.
And then come his lawyers, with news of a guest,
A visit un-looked for, unwelcome, unblessed. . . .
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How DOJ Continues to Build Its Case that Trump Improperly Retained National Defense Information
By giving DOJ an opportunity to lay out all the ways they continue to closely hold the documents Trump stole, Trump's lawyers are only making any hypothetical criminal case against him stronger.
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Christina Bobb Claimed No Copies of the Stolen Classified Documents Had Been Made
According to the narrative offered by DOJ of the June 3 meeting at which Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb handed over just a fraction of the classified documents that remained at Mar-a-Lago, Bobb offered up a claim that none of those classified documents had been copied.
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Trump Stored Some of the Nation's Most Sensitive Secrets with His Framed Time Magazine Cover
Trump was keeping some of the nation's most sensitive secrets next to a framed Time Magazine cover.