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  • Lordy, There Are Tapes [of Trump Acknowledging He Had Stolen Classified Documents]!

    All trials are about prosecutors telling stories.

    This incident is a story so good that Trump tried to tell it himself, and in the process got recorded admitting he had stolen classified documents. 

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  • Leave No Stone Unturned

    Thinking about my hard-ass uncle on this Memorial Day, and a duty to the future.

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  • All GOP Horserace Analysis Is Useless without Consideration of Possible Indictments

    Any horserace analysis of the GOP primary that fails to at least consider how potential indictments might affect the primary is utterly useless.

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  • Three Things: Crustpunk Nazi Bar Update, $42K Extortion Edition

    It’s been a while since we had a chat about the crustpunk Nazi bar known as Twitter. The dead-ending bird decided to press the issue for us.

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  • OATHS BROKEN, OATH KEEPERS BOWED: Sentences for 2 more in marquee Jan. 6 conspiracy case

    Raw emotions positively dominated a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. this week as the Justice Department secured significant sentences for two more Oath Keepers involved in a larger conspiracy to forcibly stop America’s transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021. 

    On the heels of an 18-year-sentence delivered to a defiant…

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2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations

Lordy, There Are Tapes [of Trump Acknowledging He Had Stolen Classified Documents]!

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May 31, 2023
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emptywheel
All trials are about prosecutors telling stories. This incident is a story so good that Trump tried to tell it himself, and in the process got recorded admitting he had stolen classified documents. 
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Culture

Leave No Stone Unturned

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May 29, 2023
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Rayne
Thinking about my hard-ass uncle on this Memorial Day, and a duty to the future.
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2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection, Leak Investigations

All GOP Horserace Analysis Is Useless without Consideration of Possible Indictments

90 Comments
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May 29, 2023
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emptywheel
Any horserace analysis of the GOP primary that fails to at least consider how potential indictments might affect the primary is utterly useless.
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Blogs Internet and New Media, Culture

Three Things: Crustpunk Nazi Bar Update, $42K Extortion Edition

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May 28, 2023
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Rayne
It’s been a while since we had a chat about the crustpunk Nazi bar known as Twitter. The dead-ending bird decided to press the issue for us.
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

OATHS BROKEN, OATH KEEPERS BOWED: Sentences for 2 more in marquee Jan. 6 conspiracy case

43 Comments
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May 28, 2023
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Brandi Buchman
Raw emotions positively dominated a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. this week as the Justice Department secured significant sentences for two more Oath Keepers involved in a larger conspiracy to forcibly stop America’s transfer of power…
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

'NOTHING HAS CHANGED, MR. RHODES, NOTHING HAS CHANGED': Seditious Oath Keeper Elmer Rhodes sentenced to 18 years

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May 25, 2023
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Brandi Buchman
After expressing zero remorse and heralding himself to a federal judge as a “political prisoner” who “like Donald Trump only committed the crime of opposing those who are destroying our country,” Oath Keeper Elmer Stewart Rhodes was…
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

Stewart Rhodes: Yale Law Grad, Seditionist, Terrorist, and Ongoing Threat to Democracy

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May 25, 2023
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emptywheel
In sentencing Stewart Rhodes, Judge Mehta called him an ongoing peril to the very fabric of democracy.
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2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe

How CNN Inculpated John Durham While Purportedly Exonerating Trump

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May 25, 2023
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emptywheel
In an otherwise problematic early report on the results of the Durham Report, CNN caught Durham in two of the Special Counsel's numerous lapses of precisely the standards he attempted to criminalize with the FBI.
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Culture

Long Live The Queen

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May 24, 2023
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bmaz
This is a guest post by long-time community member Rosalind. Rest in peace, Queen.
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emptywheel

RIP Riverboat Queen

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May 24, 2023
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bmaz
As you may have heard, Tina turner has passed at the age of 83. It is pretty hard to describe how incredible, and important, she was over so many decades.
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Cybersecurity, FISA

Between the Annual Release of FISA Statistics and the Release of the FISA 702 Opinion, FBI Rolled Up Turla

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May 24, 2023
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emptywheel
There's a physical search FISA order released with the FISA 702 one that sounds like it pertains to a cybersecurity application.
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2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations

ABC Reports that Sources Familiar Say 2 + 2 = 5

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May 24, 2023
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emptywheel
Trump milked grievance on his social media platform yesterday in advance of being indicted. ABC did him the favor of claiming he was doing something else.
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2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Leak Investigations

The Potential International Grift Hiding behind the Stolen Documents Investigation

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May 23, 2023
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emptywheel
Investigative developments in the stolen document case reported out in the last several weeks have suggested that this investigation may not be the obstruction investigation everyone is treating it as. Jack Smith may only get to obstruction via a conspiracy to hoard classified documents. 
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emptywheel, FISA

A Modest Proposal to Fix FBI's FISA 702 Woes

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May 22, 2023
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emptywheel
My Modest Proposal to fix the FISA 702 impasse is to require the FBI to obtain probable cause warrants for the target of surveillance -- possibly from the FISA court -- for data they want to search.
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2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe

Doo-Doo Process: John Durham Claims to Know Better than Anthony Trenga and Two Juries

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May 21, 2023
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emptywheel
In spite of the fact that two juries and Judge Anthony Trenga acquitted Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko, in his report, John Durham repeats his allegation that they lied. To do so, he misrepresents the evidence submitted in both cases.
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2020 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection

Peter Baker Discovers that Russia Sows Partisan Antagonism and Then Helps Them Do So!

30 Comments
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May 21, 2023
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emptywheel
Peter Baker thought his naive observation about the way that Putin uses sanctions to foster divisions in the US was worth giving Russia an opportunity to claim that January 6 defendants were really just persecuted dissidents.
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2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel

Rudy's Very Bad Week

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May 20, 2023
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emptywheel
The key point of Noelle Dunphy's lawsuit against Rudy is to alert a lot of corrupt people that she has damning emails unprotected by a non-disclosure agreement.
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

DOJ Arrests Enrique Tarrio's Cop Buddy, Shane Lamond

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May 19, 2023
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emptywheel
For years, I've said that certain steps in the January 6 investigation had to wait on the Proud Boys verdict. One of those things was the arrest of Enrique Tarrio's DC Cop buddy, Shane Lamond.
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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

John Durham Committed the "Crime" of "Inferring" of Which He Accused Rodney Joffe

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May 19, 2023
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emptywheel
In his attempt to implicate Rodney Joffe in his conspiracy theories, John Durham criminalizes private citizens making inferences. And then he makes two inferences of his own.
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2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe

John Durham, High Priest of the Cult of the Coffee Boy

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May 18, 2023
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emptywheel
In an attempt to sustain his argument that the FBI was overly hasty in opening an investigation into Trump's Coffee Boy, John Durham whitewashed many of the details about George Papadopoulos, including that he himself found the Coffee Boy's communications with Sergei Millian to be "creepy."
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