emptywheel

I don't even have a real post for this because I am so goddamned angry right now. PAY ATTENTION, DAMN IT. Where are the girls, the babies, all of the children?

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Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Indefinite Detention, Trump Administration

Angry Mom: Hiding the Trumpian Genocide's Records

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June 21, 2018

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Rayne

When I think I can't get any angrier, the Trump administration proves there isn't a limit to how low they will go. ICE asked last year to shorten the time it keeps records on sexual assaults and deaths of detained immigrants in custody.

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Cybersecurity, emptywheel

What Seems to be Going on with MalwareTech's New Charges

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June 21, 2018

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emptywheel

The government seems to have fixed a lot of problems with their case against Marcus Hutchins in the superseding indictment.

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Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Indefinite Detention, Trump Administration

Angry Mom: I See Dead Children

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June 20, 2018

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Rayne

The Trump administration has been planning these 'death camps' for a year. Don't tell me it's hyperbole when they can't show us the girls and babies.

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2016 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity, emptywheel, Leak Investigations, WikiLeaks

Two Days after Julian Assange Threatened Don Jr, Accused Vault 7 Leaker Joshua Schulte Took to Tor

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June 20, 2018

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emptywheel

Monday, the government rolled out a superseding indictment for former NSA and CIA hacker Joshua Schulte, accusing him (obliquely) of leaking the CIA's hacking tools that became the Vault 7 release from Wikileaks. The filings in his docket (as…

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2016 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations, Mueller Probe

Two Details about DOJ IG's Leak Investigations, Plural, Including the One into Rudy Giuliani's Sources

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June 19, 2018

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emptywheel

Michael Horowitz dropped a few tidbits between the two hearings on the Hillary investigation. First, DOJ IG has multiple leak investigations ongoing. And they may have been referred criminally.

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2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe

Why Was George Papadopoulos Bitching about the UK While Working on His Presentencing Report?

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June 19, 2018

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emptywheel

George Papadopoulos, who must be in the middle of working on his motion to avoid prison time, just tweeted what appears to be a reference to perfidious Albion, a slur about the UK selling people out on matters of diplomacy and spying.

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2016 Presidential Election, Culture

His Girl Friday, But At The New York Times

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June 19, 2018

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bmaz

There is a wiki level amount of coverage currently of the so called "Fourth Estate". It seems so trite and antiquated now. How will an honest press deal with an aberrant malefactor writ large like Donald J. Trump? It is no longer a test…

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2016 Presidential Election

Name the Social Media Author: Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Or Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz?

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June 18, 2018

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emptywheel

Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz had very grave things to say about the bias of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in today's hearing on the investigation into Hillary Clinton. And they should know such bias, because they've said very similar things about Donald Trump.

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2016 Presidential Election, FISA, Mueller Probe

The Trump People Really Really Want to Know How Much Mueller Knows about Roger Stone's "Collusion"

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June 18, 2018

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emptywheel

Roger Stone wants to create another pseudo-scandal by suggesting he was targeted with a FISA order. All the available evidence suggests a judge instead found there is probable cause to believe his phone contains evidence of one or more crimes.

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emptywheel, Indefinite Detention, Racism

Who Taught Trump about Weaponized Migration?

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June 18, 2018

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emptywheel

One of Trump's most horrifying lines from the G-7, basically threatening the kind of weaponized migration that threatens to rip apart the European project, suggests someone very savvy has privileged access to Trump.

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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

The Most Irresponsible Thing Michael Horowitz Has Done as DOJ IG

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June 17, 2018

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emptywheel

I'm a big fan of Michael Horowitz. But releasing link analyses on which Agents talk to reporters without telling us whether they confirm the widespread understanding that the famously anti-Hillary NY office leaks like a sieve was inexcusably irresponsible.

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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

In Attempt to Learn How Much Mueller Knows about Roger Stone's "Collusion," Devin Nunes Blames FBI for Stone and Michael Caputo's Perjury to HPSCI

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June 17, 2018

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emptywheel

Roger Stone and Michael Caputo lied to Devin Nunes' committee to hide one instance where they considered conspiring with a Russian to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton. Devin Nunes' response to that clear case of perjury is to call for the impeachment of Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Wray.

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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

Rat-Fucker Extraordinaire Roger Stone Probably Had Far More Damning Texts Seized by FBI on March 9

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June 17, 2018

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emptywheel

Roger Stone is back in the limited hangout business, this time in regards to outreach from a Russian former FBI informant offering dirt on the Clinton Foundation.

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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

By January, Trump Believed Manafort Could Flip on Him; Since Then, Trump Learned Mueller Wanted to Know about Manafort's Requests to Russia for Help

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June 16, 2018

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emptywheel

Back in January, Trump was telling friends and aides that Manafort had information that could incriminate him if he flipped. Since then, Mueller informed Trump that he wanted to know if Trump knew about Manafort's requests to Russia for help on his election.

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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

The IG Report (and Public Evidence) Shows that Peter Strzok Lost the Argument to Investigate Aggressively

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June 16, 2018

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emptywheel

Trump thinks Peter Strzok's texts are evidence of a conspiracy against him. Instead, they're proof that Strzok lost the battles to investigate the suspected Russian assets on his campaign more aggressively.

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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

After Judge Kimba Wood Rules Any Privilege Fight Would Have to Be Public, Cohen or Trump Withdraw Three Claims of Privilege

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June 15, 2018

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emptywheel

After Judge Kimba Wood ruled that any fights over privilege determinations for the materials seized from Michael Cohen would have to be public, Cohen or Trump withdrew three privilege claims.

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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

Manafort and His Co-Conspirators Adopt the Communications Habits of David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell

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June 15, 2018

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emptywheel

Paul Manafort and his co-conspirators, after having been caught using PRISM servers in November, have moved onto "foldering," the use of draft emails in shared email accounts, to communicate.

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Roger Stone and ConFraudUs

Mueller Frees Up the Troll Team

Angry Mom: Hey Attention Deficit Media, Catch a Clue!

Angry Mom: Hiding the Trumpian Genocide’s Records

What Seems to be Going on with MalwareTech’s New Charges

Roger Stone and ConFraudUs

Mueller Frees Up the Troll Team

Angry Mom: Hey Attention Deficit Media, Catch a Clue!

Angry Mom: Hiding the Trumpian Genocide's Records

What Seems to be Going on with MalwareTech's New Charges

Angry Mom: I See Dead Children

Two Days after Julian Assange Threatened Don Jr, Accused Vault 7 Leaker Joshua Schulte Took to Tor

Two Details about DOJ IG's Leak Investigations, Plural, Including the One into Rudy Giuliani's Sources

Why Was George Papadopoulos Bitching about the UK While Working on His Presentencing Report?

His Girl Friday, But At The New York Times

Name the Social Media Author: Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Or Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz?

The Trump People Really Really Want to Know How Much Mueller Knows about Roger Stone's "Collusion"

Who Taught Trump about Weaponized Migration?

The Most Irresponsible Thing Michael Horowitz Has Done as DOJ IG

In Attempt to Learn How Much Mueller Knows about Roger Stone's "Collusion," Devin Nunes Blames FBI for Stone and Michael Caputo's Perjury to HPSCI

Rat-Fucker Extraordinaire Roger Stone Probably Had Far More Damning Texts Seized by FBI on March 9

By January, Trump Believed Manafort Could Flip on Him; Since Then, Trump Learned Mueller Wanted to Know about Manafort's Requests to Russia for Help

The IG Report (and Public Evidence) Shows that Peter Strzok Lost the Argument to Investigate Aggressively

After Judge Kimba Wood Rules Any Privilege Fight Would Have to Be Public, Cohen or Trump Withdraw Three Claims of Privilege

Manafort and His Co-Conspirators Adopt the Communications Habits of David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell

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