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The 9th Circuit just declared the Section 215 dragnet exposed by Edward Snowden violated the Fourth Amendment.

Mike Schmidt's publicity tour has set off a debate about what happened to the counterintelligence investigation into Trump back in 2017. A far more urgent question is what Bill Barr did to counterintelligence investigations implicating Trump this year.

Bill Barr released a memo purporting to add to FISA oversight. There's nothing obviously offensive about this memo. But it would do little to prevent a repeat of the Carter Page problems. And it's not clear that it adds anything to the very real efforts to improve the FISA process at DOJ. Indeed, it may well be an effort to pre-empt more substantive concerns about the role of NSD (as opposed to FBI) in this process.

The DC Circuit ordered Judge Emmet Sullivan to move with appropriate dispatch in resolving whether to dismiss Mike Flynn's case. But that still may drag the decision out past the election.

The details laid out in accused Russian espionage recruit Peter Debbins' detention hearing suggest his actions extended beyond the January 2011 act laid out in his indictment.

Mike Schmidt has a story describing that Rod Rosenstein led Andrew McCabe to believe that the Deputy Attorney General had tasked Robert Mueller to investigate the counterintelligence risk posed by Trump's financial vulnerabilities, even though…

Theresa May's one-time Chief of Staff, Nick Timothy, has now told his side of Trump's meltdown because Mike Flynn wasn't responsive enough to Vladimir Putin's January 21, 2017 call. At the time Trump had that meltdown, he knew the FBI was investigating.

The final night of the Republican National Committee's Convention was a disgusting spectacle, but its unlawful wretched excess wasn't the worst of it.

In Ireland, hypocrisy over public health guidelines just forced Phil Hogan to resign. In the United States, however, Trump's multiple contributions to the devastation of COVID have brought little of the same kind of shame.