
DOJ Has at Least One Card Left to Play: Congress' Instinct for Self-Preservation
By demanding a Special Master under ridiculous terms, Trump has guaranteed his legal woes with continue to suck the oxygen out of Republican attempts to win in November.

Trump Proposes a New Plan to Steal Classified Documents
Trump's Special Master plan is a way for him to steal documents from the CIA and NSA and retain access forever.

Perfect Specimen: Government Records about the Mazars Lawsuit and Trump's COVID Treatment Would Be Government Records
Even amidst several other dishonest claims on which Judge Aileen Cannon rested her decision to intervene in the Trump search, she did not claim that the medical, accounting, and tax records described in a still-sealed privilege review status report were not government documents.

A Likely Looming Battle in the Stolen Document Case: Classified White House Counsel Documents
DOJ says the government owns all the classified documents seized from Trump's club. But that also may include highly sensitive documents classified precisely to hide them from the taxpayers who paid for the lawyers involved.

The Tactics of DOJ's Request for a Partial Stay of Judge Cannon's Order
DOJ's motion for a partial stay pending appeal strikes me as an effort to improve their tactical position going forward. To refuse this order, Aileen Cannon would have to assert that the Federal Government doesn't own its secrets. I don't rule out that she'll do so. But if she does, it'll make an appeal far more modest, and her malign intent far more obvious.

Regina Mortua Est, Vivat Rex
The longest-reigning British monarch, Elizabeth II, has died today in Balmoral, Scotland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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…

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.

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.

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

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.

