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Bill Barr Not Only Overrode Emmet Sullivan's Brady Ruling, He Explicitly Pre-Empted Sullivan's Covington Review

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emptywheel
In moving to withdraw the Mike Flynn prosecution on Thursday, Billy Barr effectively overrode Emmet Sullivan's authority twice.
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The Fabulous Emptywheel Music Blog: Little Richard

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bmaz
Little Richard was everything. If it wasn't Chuck Berry, it was Richard Wayne Penniman. The definition of rock and roll.
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The Logan Act Is Just the Cherry on Mike Flynn's Foreign Agent Sundae

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emptywheel
Bill Barr is misrepresenting the record to defend intervening in Mike Flynn's prosecution. But the way he's doing so makes it clear that Flynn did what he did on orders from Trump.
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Damning New Details from Mary McCord and Sally Yates

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emptywheel
Among the things revealed in documents released yesterday is that Flynn didn't just discuss sanctions with Sergey Kislyak, he purportedly raised them. Which is one reason people who read the transcripts of his calls with Sergey Kislyak don't believe he forgot those conversations.
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Judge Sullivan Has Already Rejected Most of Timothy Shea's DOJ Flynn Pardon

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emptywheel
In this post, I laid out how Acting DC US Attorney Timothy Shea claimed DOJ had "newly" acquired a bunch of information which led it to decide to ask Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss Mike Flynn's prosecution. Except none of the information…
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Trump Pride and DOJ Prejudice: The Flynn Volume

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bmaz
The irreducible minimum is that Judge Emmet Sullivan is the one with jurisdiction and control of this case. Not Trump. Not Barr. An honest and good judge, and one that has proven that over decades. Sidney Powell was right about one, and only one, thing: The Stevens case is a template for the court to find the truth.
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To Justify Dismissing Mike Flynn's Prosecution, Timothy Shea Claims Information DOJ Has Always Had Is "New"

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emptywheel
Timothy Shea claims DOJ found new information to excuse asking Judge Sullivan to let DOJ drop the case against Mike Flynn. And then he rolls out a bunch of information that is not new, at all, to DOJ.
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As Predicted, Billy Barr Bolloxed the Mike Flynn Prosecution

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emptywheel
Amid reports that DOJ will drop the Mike Flynn prosecution, Brandon Van Grack has withdrawn the Mike Flynn case.
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Ric Grenell Declassified George Papadopoulos' Brags about Fucking Older Women, but Not about Befriending Sergey Millian

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emptywheel
The frothy right is ginning up a fake scandal over the orchestrated release of the House Intelligence Committee Russian investigation transcripts. Except there's already evidence that Ric Grenell is politicizing the declassification process.
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Where's the Beef? Republicans Don't Understand Critical Infrastructure and Supply Chains

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emptywheel
As we reopen without having taken the opportunity created by the shutdown to figure out how to keep workplaces safe, what happened in the meatpacking industry will happen in other parts of the economy.
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Lindsey Graham and Ric Grenell Reveal Mike Flynn May Not Have Fully Disclosed His Foreign Contacts

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emptywheel
Lindsey Graham thinks he's exposing FISA abuse. But in the case of Mike Flynn, he's not only showing that the FBI stopped pursuing leads on Flynn once they had chased them down, but were chasing one that was previously unknown: that he lied on his security clearance form. 
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Jail Couldn't Silence The Music Of Albany In 1961 And A Voluntary Lockdown Won't Silence Them Now

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Jim White
The parallels between 1961 and 2020 in Albany are striking. The citizens of Albany took a stand for what is right in 1961 and were locked up for it. They realized that this suffering while locked up would help everyone in the struggle for civil rights. Today, the citizens of Albany are once again organizing and this time they're locking themselves up. Just like before though, this round of being locked up is being undertaken with the knowledge that it is for the good of their community and their country.
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An Update on the Human Experiment in Marion Prison

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emptywheel
Ohio started testing entire populations of several prisons in April. Thus far, .5% to 1.6% of prisoners who tested positive have died.
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Live and Let Die: The Data Manipulation Begins

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emptywheel
Trump has chosen the worst of all options with his COVID-19 response, with epidemiological efforts that have a huge impact on the economy, but halted before any lasting epidemiological value. So now, Trump and his allies are lying with numbers to pretend the stupidity of this path isn't known.
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After Years of Squealing about "FISA Abuse," Trump's DNI Nominee Won't Rule Out Warrantless Wiretapping

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emptywheel
John Ratcliffe is an appalling choice to be Director of National Intelligence. But there's the clear sense that SSCI is so anxious to replace Ric Grenell that they'd prefer him.
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John Ratcliffe Demonstrates How He'll Politicize Intelligence by Claiming Trump Has Been Honest about COVID-19

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emptywheel
John Ratcliffe said over and over in his confirmation hearing that he won't politicize intelligence. And then he provided far clearly proof that he will.
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"ur submission form is too fucking slow, spent the whole day uploading 1 gb."

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emptywheel
At Joshua Schulte's trial, prosecutors implied that he transferred CIA files to WikiLeaks overnight. Given details about how a similar process worked with the Guccifer 2.0 persona, however, such a transfer overnight would have necessitated prior contact with WikiLeaks.
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The Four Ways Trump Can Ensure Mike Flynn Avoids Accountability for His Lies

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emptywheel
Ultimately, Trump has four possible ways to get Flynn out of his guilty verdict. And it is virtually guaranteed that one of them will work. But it's still unclear how Judge Sullivan will respond the conflict sworn statements Flynn has made to him.
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