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John Durham included three sections in the Igor Danchenko indictment where he basically made unfounded accusations (and in at least one case, a provably false claim) without charging them.

Snap out of it. Pity parties don't do anything constructive except sell facial tissues. Far more happened yesterday than Virginia's gubernatorial race.

It's election day across the country with lots of local and state elections still underway. Take a look at some bullshit while waiting for the polls to close and votes to be counted.

Trump's attempt to claim privilege over White House records pertaining to January 6 is not, just, an obvious attempt by Donald Trump to cover up his own crimes. It's not just an attempt to hide how, in contrast to his predecessors, he did nothing as the nation's capital was attacked. It's also an attempt to hide whether Trump invited the terrorists inside the White House to plot the event. 

Chuck Rosenberg argues that you might as well hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt, because he'll never testify truthfully anyway. That's likely true, in the short term. But it's worth noting that Mueller's team got Bannon to testify truthfully, once, though in the grand scheme of things his testimony ended up to be no use.

There's some indication that DOJ is letting cooperative January 6 defendants plead down from felony counts. Kevin Creek, whose alleged "multiple assaults" and civil disorder charge became a single assault charge after he provided "substantial cooperation" is the latest example.

When Sheldon Whitehouse asked Merrick Garland whether DOJ was following the funders of the January 6 riot yesterday, Garland replied that DOJ was using all the techniques that Whitehouse would have used from his time as a US Attorney, and then some.

Why is it only after the August 2021 election of a new Westchester County district attorney took office was the possibility of tax and insurance fraud finally investigated? Why are 10 other courses going unexamined?

When DOD's General Counsel hired Mike Ellis, Paul Nakasone had some concerns based off his interaction over the John Bolton book. Then, in the days after January 6, two security incidents involving Ellis vindicated those concerns.

Eric Swalwell tried to grill Attorney General Garland on whether DOJ would reconsider the OLC memo holding that a sitting President cannot be indicted. Garland dodged answering any specific question. But along the way he laid out some principles that he might apply regarding the investigation of a former President.