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In testimony last August, Robert O'Brien suggested that a Colombian extradited on money laundering charges to the US in 2021 is "Vladimir Putin's laundry man."

Trump's lawyers told DOJ that the reason people they paid to search Trump's properties found an empty classified folder is because he has an empty classified folder fetish. He does have an empty classified folder fetish. But that cannot explain why it remained in his residence in December, after not being found in August.

The answer to the most pressing Trump document theft story from yesterday -- why did a former White House aide now working for Trump's PAC have classified materials on her laptop -- may answer the most pressing outstanding question from the Special Master review -- who compiled a document with messages from a book author, a religious leader, and a pollster with classified documents?

Updates on the stolen and mishandled documents investigations.

When a politician resists saying under oath what he has said in a book, as Mike Pence is doing, that is the story -- not some hyped up drama about the very precedented fact that a (former) Vice President got a subpoena.

One of the most interesting things about the Vladimir Voronchenko indictment, in which he was charged for conspiring to help Viktor Vekselberg dodge sanctions, is that he was charged alone.

Jeff Gerth spends 23,000 words lecturing other journalists they need to be more transparent. But he doesn't reveal that one of the key pieces of evidence in his narrative that Hillary pushed a "conspiracy theory" that "there was a secret alliance" between Trump and Russia was a Russian intelligence product, a product the reliability of which not even spooks managed by John Ratcliffe would authenticate.

In CJR's 23,000 word narrative criticizing reporting on the Russian investigation, Jeff Gerth committed the first of many errors at word 18.

An open thread to talk the stupidest Chinese spying balloon take.