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Ten Days To Go Trash Talk

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bmaz
There are ten days left to insure the Trump Train leaves the station forever. Let Mr. Springsteen tell you to drive that train on out of town.
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From Failed Whistleblower to Journalistic Source: Natalie Sours Edwards Mounts a Credible Public Interest Defense

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emptywheel
Natalie Sours Edwards -- Jason Leopold's source for his reporting on Suspicious Activity Reports -- has done what every other leaker I've covered has tried to do with far less success: mount a public interest defense.
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Judge Emmet Sullivan Just Created Four Big Problems for DOJ in the Mike Flynn Case

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emptywheel
Judge Emmet Sullivan just ordered DOJ to comply with the order he already issued, that it certify all the exhibits submitted in this proceeding. He added a nearly impossible deadline and a requirement that DOJ transcribe hand-written notes and provide the author and date. This order will create a whole heap of problems for DOJ.
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675 Days after Mike Flynn Blew Up His Probation Plea Deal, We Learn There Never Was an "Original 302"

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emptywheel
It turns out the Holy Grail Mike Flynn has been searching for throughout the 675 days during which he has utterly blown up his plea deal -- an "original 302" -- doesn't exist.
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2020 Presidential Debates: The Battle of Nashville [UPDATE-3]

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Rayne
FINALLY, the last presidential debate of this election cycle. Here's a post for emptywheel community members' discussion about the debate.
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Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Guccifer 2.0 the Go-Between

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emptywheel
When you separate the story of Roger Stone's communications with Guccifer 2.0 from the WikiLeaks one, the August 15, 2016 asking how he liked the documents Guccifer 2.0 posted looks totally innocuous. But when you combine them, it looks like Guccifer 2.0 is Stone's go-between.
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Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Getting the "Highest Level of Government" to Free Julian Assange

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emptywheel
On June 10, 2017, Roger Stone told Julian Assange he was "doing everything possible to address" Assange's plight "at the highest level of Government." On June 19, 2017, Trump tried to send a back channel order to Jeff Sessions to shut down any investigation into past Russian meddling in the election, effectively an attempt to shut down any investigation into Assange.
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GRU Adopted the Identity of Two UK Journalists to Phish the OPCW

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emptywheel
The only detail about the GRU hack of the OPCW and Porton Downs included in a new GRU indictment is that the phishes laying the groundwork for the attack were done using spoofed identities of real journalists.
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Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Trolling for Russia

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emptywheel
Roger Stone has played a key role in undermining the Russian attribution of the 2016 election year operation. But the SSCI and Mueller Reports barely mention how closely Stone's efforts mirror those of WikiLeaks.

Dr. Fauci Has No More Fucks Left To Give

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bmaz
This point was always going to arrive. An actually educated and aware specialist trying to deal with an obtuse oaf. "The impact of a vaccine, he said, would depend on both its efficacy and the proportion of people who take it. Fauci cautions…

The Public In Dewey's The Public And Its Problems

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Ed Walker
Dewey's definitions start with understanding human actions in the context of the humans they affect.
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Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Steve Bannon and Dirty Tricks

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emptywheel
Thus far in my Rat-Fucker Rashomon story, I've shown strong evidence that Roger Stone not only knew that John Podesta's emails were coming, but knew or had the contents of some documents pertaining to an attack he had already been making on…
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Steve Bannon, Guccifer 2.0, Glenn Greenwald, and Me: How Glenn Greenwald Defends "Smear Artist & Cowards"

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emptywheel
When Glenn got treated the way the NYPost treats others, he accused those who posted from authentic documents of being "smear artists & cowards." But when Steve Bannon does it, he defends its right to go viral.
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Docket Tea Leaves: Manafort, Bannon, and Flynn

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emptywheel
There are some curious happenings in various dockets -- which may mean nothing.
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Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Roger Stone's Mid-Burglary Foreknowledge

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emptywheel
This post showed that the SSCI Report ignored a lot of evidence (laid out in the affidavits) that Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone had specific details -- possibly even the John Podesta emails themselves -- pertaining to Joule Holdings, which they…
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Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Jerome Corsi's Prescience about the Content of John Podesta's Emails

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emptywheel
On October 13, Roger Stone published a Jerome Corsi post under his own name that Corsi suggested had been started by October 6. It relied on documents, however, that didn't become public until October 11.
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"That's Rudy." Trump Proves, Yet Again, That He Would Just Ignore a Defensive Briefing

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emptywheel
For much of the last three years, Trump has claimed that, if only he had been given a defensive briefing about Russia's efforts to help his campaign (rather than launch investigations into four men who all turned out to be selling Trump out to one or another foreign country), he would have done something about it. By ignoring the warnings he got about Rudy being targeted for disinformation, Trump just made it clear that was not true.
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2020 Presidential Debates: Missing 'The Capital of Latin America' [UPDATE-1]

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Rayne
Here's a post so emptywheel community members can discuss the canceled second of three presidential debates — I mean, town hall on ABC with Biden and interview with Trump on NBC.
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SCOTUS Nomination: Coney Barrett's Beeswax and Goose Quills

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Rayne
Originalists like Amy Coney Barrett are not up to the task of deciding issues of contemporary law using criteria shaped by goose quills and beeswax.
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