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SDNY Prosecutors Protect Trump's Privacy to Enter into a Joint Defense Agreement with the Russian Mob

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emptywheel
A privilege battle has erupted in the Ukrainian Grifter's case, with Lev Parnas trying to release more damning information on Trump and Rudy and SDNY putting up Igor Fruman to object, both in his own interest, and for the interest of those he's in a Joint Defense Agreement.
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John Lewis Was Not Always Old

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John Lewis has been a fighter his whole life long. He is the last living member of the Big Six, the speakers at the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights, and now is a senior member of Congress fighting pancreatic cancer. But it's important to remember that John Lewis was not always old.
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Joshua Schulte Wanted to Include Instructions to Contact WikiLeaks in a Pro Se Motion

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emptywheel
In a last ditch effort to exclude information from Joshua Schulte's notebooks from his trial that starts next week, his lawyers provide evidence he was trying to leak classified information in pro se motions.
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The Whack-a-Mole Cover Story: Bill Barr's Knowing Complicity Moved a Month Earlier

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emptywheel
We have known since Mick Mulvaney's presser that there was a tie between Trump's demands for dirt from Ukraine and the John Durham investigation. But John Bolton's story moves the date when Bill Barr should have known that a month earlier.
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Charles Cooper's Letter about Pre-Publication Review Discounts Any Executive Privilege Claims

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emptywheel
In December, Bolton lawyer Charles Cooper made an argument that will make it harder for his client to avoid testifying, anywhere, going forward.
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Mueller's 302s: The Apparent Referral of Rick Gerson's 302s May Be as Interesting as Kushner's

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Putting together the various claims DOJ has made about what Mueller 302s they've released shows some of the methods they're using to hide damning information.
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Dick Cheney's Apprentice Strikes

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emptywheel
John Bolton lacks moral courage. But he learned the fine art of bureaucratic murder from the master, Dick Cheney.

RIP Kobe

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You probably know by now that Kobe Bryant has died in a tragic helicopter crash. Even more sadly, it appears his teen daughter did as well and they were on the way to some kind of basketball event with another parent and daughter, and, of course,…
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Propaganda and Flattery: Jack Posobiec Parrots Adam Schiff's Case for Impeachment

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emptywheel
After listening to the recording of Lev Parnas getting Trump to call for Marie Yovanovitch's ouster last night, Jack Posobiec declared Parnas a "spy." That puts him in agreement with an argument that House Impeachment Manager Adam Schiff made Friday: that Trump can be made to undermine the national security of the United States with little more than flattery and propaganda.
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The Significance of the Trump-Firing-Masha Recording

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emptywheel
Lev Parnas admitted last night he has always had the damning video of Trump ordering Marie Yovanovitch to be fired, sitting in his iCloud account.
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Mike Pompeo Can Find Proof that Obama Addressed Ukrainian Corruption in Trump's Joint Defense Agreement

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emptywheel
Mike Pompeo claimed today that, "The previous administration did nothing to take down corruption in Ukraine." He need look no further than President Trump's Joint Defense Agreement to find proof he's wrong.
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How Many Other Grifters and Spies Have Incredibly Damning Recordings of Donald Trump?

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emptywheel
Lev Parnas just demonstrated that it is child's play to get a compromising recording of President Trump.
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Emmet Sullivan Invites Mike Flynn to Lie Under Oath One More Time

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emptywheel
To get out of his guilty plea, Mike Flynn is going to have to argue, under oath, that he lied under oath twice.
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NSA Is Probably Withholding Details of the Alleged Burisma Hack from Congress

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Last night, Adam Schiff described his efforts to learn about the alleged Burisma hack in such a way that suggests that's what NSA is withholding.
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Joshua Schulte Spoke Positively of Edward Snowden the Day Snowden Came Forward

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emptywheel
The government revealed a bit more of how it plans to argue Joshua Schulte specifically intended to damage the United States when he leaked to WikiLeaks.
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Sidney Powell Wants to Have Mike Flynn's Acceptance of Responsibility and Claims of Innocence Too

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emptywheel
In her sentencing memo arguing that Flynn should suffer no penalty for reneging on his plea deal, Sidney Powell leaves Flynn's motion to withdraw his guilty plea in tatters, and any claim he is taking responsibility for his crimes shot to hell.
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The Glenn Greenwald versus the Julian Assange Charges, Compared

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emptywheel
The retaliatory indictment of Glenn Greenwald in Brazil has raised comparison with the US indictment of Assange. This post tries to unpack the similarities and differences.
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Joshua Schulte's Plans from Jail: "#TopSecret#FuckYourTopSecret"

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emptywheel
In new descriptions of Joshua Schulte's prison notebooks, the government reveals he wanted to recruit intelligence professionals to leak to WikiLeaks to avenge government slights.
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