
The [Thus Far] Missing Seth DuCharme Emails Pertaining to Rudy Giuliani's Russian Disinformation
There's something odd about DOJ's response to a FOIA for the documents pertaining to Rudy Giuliani's efforts to share known Russian disinformation with DOJ.

Paul Hodgkins Pleads Guilty to Obstruction
Paul Hodgkins became the first January 6 defendant to plead out today. He faces a sentencing range of 15-21 months.

Government Moves to Dismiss Its First January 6 Case: Christopher Kelly
The government just moved to dismiss the case against Christopher Kelly, whose Facebook seemed to show that he went to January 6 with some Proud Boys and his brother, a former NYPD cop.

OpSec Confusion on the Oath Keeper Conspiracy
The Oath Keepers went to some lengths to hide their communications. And then they made their hotel reservations via an interlocking set of bookings and payments that makes plain they were an organized interstate network.

Crystalizing Conspiracies: Fourth Superseding, James Breheny, Puma's GoPro, [Redacted], and the Willard Hotel
The developments in the Oath Keepers prosecution in the last week have added a call for insurrection, a planning meeting with other militia, and a third witness to what happened at the Willard Hotel before Oath Keepers rushed from there to the Capitol.

Latex Gloves Hiding Evidence of Conspiracies: On the Unknown Adequacy of the January 6 Investigation
If Donald Trump and his close associates are going to be held accountable for January 6, it will be via a conspiracy charge, almost certainly involving the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. But thus far, we have no idea what evidence of conspiracy prosecutors have.

Rudy Giuliani's Alleged "Cooperation" Is a Threat to Lay out How Bill Barr and Jeffrey Rosen Protected Russian Disinformation
The Russian scandal of 2020 is, in many ways, even more scandalous than the Russian scandal of 2016. At least Paul Manafort and Roger Stone were in a position to claim plausible deniability. Bill Barr and Jeffrey Rosen are not.

Let The Girls Rock And Roll At Indy
The good news:
There is a full on female racing team about to run the Indy 500 in about an hour and a half. The effort is awesome. Hopefully transformational. For any interested, this is a must read ESPN article by Alyssa Roenigk:
Roughly…

The Rudy Giuliani Warrants Likely Go Up To the Andrii Derkach Meeting
The twin Rudy Giuliani warrants likely end on either December 5 or December 31, 2019, including his first meeting with Andrii Derkach but no later.

Rudy Giuliani's Support Role in the Mueller Report
Rudy Giuliani had a significant role in the 2016 campaign, and Mike Flynn believed he'd be among the most likely people to hunt down stolen Hillary emails. Yet he barely shows up as a participant in the Mueller Report.

Lev Parnas Failed to Delete His iCloud Content Just before DOJ Got a Secret Warrant for Rudy Giuliani's iCloud Content
Rudy Giuliani is wailing about the suggestion that DOJ might have suspected he would delete content from his iCloud. But shortly before DOJ got a secret warrant targeting him, SDNY would have discovered that Lev Parnas had just unsuccessfully tried to delete content from his iCloud.

Three Things: Pouring Cement Down the Wells
There's no going back to the toxic avoidance of disruption. Change has come whether we like it or not -- fossil fuel industries are finally feeling it.

Republicans Filibuster Keeping the Capitol Safe
Republicans just filibustered the bill to create a bipartisan commission to investigate January 6, 54-35. It was the first bill killed by filibuster in this Congress.
I never held out much hope that the commission would work with our partisanship…

Jeffrey Rosen Separated the Investigation that Could Turn Rudy Into a Russian Agent from the Rudy Investigation
Because of steps Jeffrey Rosen took after SDNY started investigating Rudy Giuliani, the part of the investigation that relates to Russian agent Andreii Derkach is in EDNY and not SDNY, and Rudy is not a subject.

Lev Parnas' Gamble: The Three Nested Investigations
Lev Parnas is trying to force the government to look at evidence he has reason to believe exists of a cover-up to protect Donald Trump.

In [Legal] Defense of the Nazi
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.

The Manafort Unsealing and Konstantin Kilimnik
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…

Bill Barr Issued Prosecution Declinations for Three Crimes in Progress
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.

RICO Comes to the January 6 Investigation -- But Not the Way You Think
DOJ argues that they can seize the funds John Earle Sullivan made by selling his video of the insurrection by going through RICO thinking.

Amy Berman Jackson Accuses Bill Barr of a Preemptive Strike on the Mueller Report
Amy Berman Jackson is still considering whether to grant a stay of her decision to release the full Barr memo.