Election Day Countdown: Zero Day (Or Is It '0-day'?) [UPDATE-2]

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Rayne
Finally, the last text messages, phone calls, emails, political ads will be dispatched today. Finally, the people get their say.
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We're So Not Through Here

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Rayne
This union has always been aspirational, a work in progress. It most certainly isn't done.
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What Comes After America

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Quinn Norton
Whatever happens today, the Union is done. It has been for a long time, maybe even from the start. But we have reached the point where the longer it goes on, the more harm it will inexorably do. It's time, past time, to admit it didn't work,…
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Unsealed Mueller Report Passages Confirm the Then-Ongoing Investigation into Roger Stone

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emptywheel
The Mueller Report didn't say that Roger Stone didn't have a role in the hack-and-leak conspiracy. Instead, it said they were still trying to get the evidence to prove he did.
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Election Day Countdown: Better Than 1 Day Left [UPDATE-2]

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Rayne
A couple hours or twenty minutes left is better than a day left, amirite?
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Who Will Be Forced to Walk the Plank on November 4th?

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Peterr
You know that once the voting is over, Trump will be looking for vengeance against those he perceives as having wronged him or failed him.
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Bill Barr's DOJ Protecting Sean Hannity the Cut-Out

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emptywheel
DOJ redacted Sean Hannity's name in a Paul Manafort 302 released last week, presumably to hide that Manafort lied about feeding Hannity in violation of his gag order.
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Election Day Countdown: 2 Days, 2 Much 2 Go

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Rayne
MAGAtroids are ramping up their terror attacks ahead of Election Day. As if COVID isn't enough of a nuisance.
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"Show Me the Metadata:" A Forensic Tie Between Shadow Brokers and Guccifer 2.0

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emptywheel
Someone may have accessed a staging site for The Shadow Brokers from the same IP address as accessed Guccifer 2.0 infrastructure.
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Election Day Countdown: 3 Days, 3 Things

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Rayne
*cough-cough* More on that later. It's very late on Day 3, need to get through these pronto.
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Last Trash Talk Before The Election

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bmaz
The long national nightmare is hitting the home stretch, Sean Connery has passed, and there is some great football and F1 on tap this weekend.
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Child Rapist George Nader Introduced Dick Cheney and Ahmad Chalabi

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emptywheel
Last night, BuzzFeed released the second-to-last dump of 302s in their Mueller FOIA. There's a ton that's interesting in it (and I'm just skimming much of it). But -- as I said to Jason Leopold -- this George Nader interview, by itself, made…
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Glenn Greenwald's Self Hack: "I could go on and on"

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emptywheel
In emails that he thinks proves that he was censored by The Intercept, Glenn admits that he knows there is no evidence for the claim he wanted to make about Joe Biden being corrupt.
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Lindsey Graham Responds to News of Potential Ongoing Crime by Promising to Ignore It

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emptywheel
I asked Lindsey Graham's spox whether he's concerned about a potential crime in progress involving FBI alterations of official documents. She said he's very interested, instead, in continuing to review investigative events that happened four years ago.
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Trump's Slow-Motion Cover-Up of Erdogan Corruption and Jeff Sessions' Meeting with Mike Flynn's Clients

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emptywheel
NYT's story about Donald Trump's extended efforts to help Turkey avoid criminal penalties for matters investigated by SDNY barely mentions Jeff Sessions or Mike Flynn. That's curious given that Jeff Sessions called Flynn's clients to find out what Flynn was lobbying about.
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More Reason to Question the Government's Treatment of Andrew McCabe's Notes

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emptywheel
There's yet more evidence to suggest that someone went to great lengths to package up the Andrew McCabe notes falsely suggesting he briefed SSCI about Mike Flynn the day after Jim Comey was fired for public consumption.
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Election Day Countdown: 5 Days

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Rayne
There are five days left until Election Day. There are at least 228,000 Americans dead from COVID, and another 25-30% more excess deaths -- all of them Trump's responsibility.
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Doesn't Anyone in the Media Read the Actual Election Laws?

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Peterr
Since high school, I worked on a number of campaigns, from local school board stuff to Paul Simon's presidential campaign and a bunch at every level in between. One thing I've never forgotten is simple: read the election law. With all the "will we have a winner on Election Night?" blather, it seems few in the media have bothered to do that one very simple thing.
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