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In [Legal] Defense of the Nazi

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emptywheel
The government has been holding January 6 defendant, Nazi sympathizer Timothy Hale-Cusanelli for four months, but they have yet to show that he was a key player in the January 6 attack.
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The Manafort Unsealing and Konstantin Kilimnik

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emptywheel
Earlier this week, the court unsealed the filings in Paul Manafort's case pertaining to his breach determination. I've put most of the filings below. Much of what has been unsealed is not new. Because Manafort's attorneys failed to actually…
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Bill Barr Issued Prosecution Declinations for Three Crimes in Progress

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emptywheel
The OLC memo that DOJ is trying to keep secret explains how Bill Barr ended up giving prosecution declinations for three crimes in progress: the pardon for false testimony obstruction Trump engaged in with Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort.
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RICO Comes to the January 6 Investigation -- But Not the Way You Think

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emptywheel
DOJ argues that they can seize the funds John Earle Sullivan made by selling his video of the insurrection by going through RICO thinking.
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Amy Berman Jackson Accuses Bill Barr of a Preemptive Strike on the Mueller Report

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emptywheel
Amy Berman Jackson is still considering whether to grant a stay of her decision to release the full Barr memo.
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"Purge:" Gordon Sondland Probably Just Won Himself Another Subpoena

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emptywheel
Gordon Sondland may or may not win his lawsuit trying to force the State Department and/or Mike Pompeo to reimburse his legal fees from testifying during impeachment. But he is bound to win a subpoena from SDNY.
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Lev Parnas Wants in on the Rudy Giuliani Warrant Bonanza

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emptywheel
Lev Parnas says there's stuff that will help his defense in the materials SDNY seized from Rudy Giuliani.
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Frankenstein's OLC: DOJ Says DOJ Can't Do What DOJ Did in the Barr Memo

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emptywheel
DOJ's memo asking Amy Berman Jackson to stay her opinion releasing the OLC memo admits that DOJ is not permitted to do what DOJ did with the Barr memo it is trying to withhold from FOIA. And part of the memo itself, which DOJ unsealed last night,…
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On the Barr Memo: Julie Straus Harris Says Julie Straus Harris' Unexplained "Flourish" Wasn't a Lie

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emptywheel
In DOJ's motion for a stay of Amy Berman Jackson's decision to release the entire Barr memo rationalizing giving Trump a clean bill of health in the Mueller investigation, Julie Straus Harris ignores ABJ's complaint about Julie Straus Harris' past work.
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Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and the Ongoing Investigation into Cambridge Analytica

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emptywheel
Steve Bannon responded to what may have been Alexander Nix's pitch to reach out to Julian Assange to help find Hillary Clinton's missing emails in June 2016 by responding, "Love it." DOJ has hidden that email in a series of FOIA releases…
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Steve Bannon's Mueller and Mueller Aftermath Interviews, with Backup

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Given the release of the backup materials to several Steve Bannon interviews in the BuzzFeed FOIA, I wanted to pull together the known interviews Steve Bannon did as part of the Mueller investigation and its aftermath. I've discussed Bannon's…
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"Fool's Gold:" The Polls Shared with Konstantin Kilimnik Integrated Tony Fabrizio's Polling with Cambridge Analytica's

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emptywheel
Rick Gates integrated Paul Manafort's favorite pollster, Tony Fabrizio, with the polls of Cambridge Analytica before he sent the polling off to Konstantin Kilimnik.
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You Cannot Discuss Disinformation and the Steele Dossier without Discussing Oleg Deripaska

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emptywheel
In an attack on the Steele dossier, Barry Meier plays a role in the ongoing disinformation campaign that he attacks.
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The Shocking Blue Streets of Monaco

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bmaz
Monaco is part boring as a processional, and part the most special race on the calendar.
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DOJ Reaches a Non-Prosecution Agreement with the MCC Guards Bill Barr Used as Scapegoats for Jeffrey Epstein's Death

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emptywheel
Under Bill Barr, DOJ tried to scapegoat two prison guards for Jeffrey Epstein's death. Yesterday, Merrick Garland's DOJ entered into a non-prosecution agreement with them, which will allow DOJ IG to fully investigate the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death.
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Insurance File: Glenn Greenwald's Anger Is of More Use to Vladimir Putin than Edward Snowden's Freedom

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emptywheel
As Edward Snowden's utility in inspiring further leaks diminishes, Glenn Greenwald's tirades have become more valuable to Russian than Snowden himself.
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Vicky and Rudy: The Subjects of Delay

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emptywheel
SDNY is fairly explicit that the reason they want to use a Special Master to filter the content seized from Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing is to avoid the kind of delay that has stalled this investigation for the past 18 months.
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Discuss: U.S. Mobile Data Compared to Rest of Globe

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Rayne
Sometimes discussion material is self-evident, like the cost of U.S. mobile data compared to the rest of the world.
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Victoria Toensing's Singular Multiple Devices

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emptywheel
The government has docketed a less redacted version of the letter it originally posted asking for a Special Master to troll through Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing's devices to separate out the privileged material. As I predicted, the redacted…
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DOJ Moves to Label John Sullivan a Professional Provocateur

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emptywheel
Yesterday, the government released a superseding indictment for John Earle Sullivan, the guy who filmed video of the insurrection and then sold it to CNN and other media outlets. In addition to adding two crimes for his possession of a knife…
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