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Joshua Schulte's Human Graymail Campaign Targets Mike Pompeo

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emptywheel
Joshua Schulte is trying to make his trial as painful for the government as possible by calling every single CIA witness who might be claimed to have knowledge of the leak. But I'm more sympathetic to his bid to call Mike Pompeo to testify.
[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]
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The Geostrategic and Historic Implications of Crypto

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emptywheel
One thing that lies at the core of the success of the Crypto AG operation was a corruption of market forces, a lesson worth remembering in trying to prevent similar efforts going forward.
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Bill Barr Usurped the Power of a Judge Who Was Threatened Herself to Decide the Import of Violent Threats

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emptywheel
Bill Barr unilaterally eliminated all punishment for Roger Stone for his repeated incitement of violence in a case where the judge herself was violently threatened.
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Tea Leaves: Brandon Van Grack Remains on the Mike Flynn Case

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emptywheel
Prosecutors noted 10 times in their latest filing that Sidney Powell keeps raising issues that have nothing to do with the crime her client pled guilty to.
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Steve Bannon Employee Lee Stranahan Purportedly Convinced Roger Stone to Love Guccifer 2.0

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emptywheel
In Stone's trial, Steve Bannon revealed he discussed Stone's alleged ties to WikiLeaks before he joined the campaign. That makes the August 2, 2016 column Stone wrote with Lee Stranahan far more interesting.
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The Slow Firing of Robert Mueller['s Replacement]

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emptywheel
After almost three years of trying, Trump has finally succeeded in thwarting the investigation into his role in Russia's interference in 2016.
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Bill Barr's DOJ Says Trump Is Too Old for Another 4 Year Term

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emptywheel
DOJ says that Roger Stone, who is 67, is too old to serve a prison sentence until he's 74. Which I guess means that the 73 year old President running for another 4 year term is too old to run.
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Three Things: When the Hangover Ends

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Rayne
Republicans are too relaxed and smug after last week. We can see their emperor has no clothes and their asses are showing, too.
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Bill Barr Needs to Soften Roger Stone's Sentence to Prevent Him from Talking

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emptywheel
There's good reason to believe that Barr is revising DOJ's sentencing recommendation in an attempt to ensure that Roger Stone won't get chatty about what the President really did to get elected.
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Bill Barr Commits the Bruce Ohr "Crime"

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emptywheel
I'm less worried than virtually anyone else that Bill Barr has found a way to avoid sending Rudy's Ukrainian disinformation directly to any ongoing criminal investigations. But I am struck by the hypocrisy.
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The Frothy Right's Redaction-Ray Glasses in Defense of Roger Stone

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emptywheel
In making his case that his obstruction wasn't all that obstructive, Roger Stone claims to be able to have x-ray vision.
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Timothy Shea Signs Off on Aggressive Sentencing Recommendation for Roger Stone

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emptywheel
For the first time, Mueller's prosecutors have pushed, really aggressively, for a harsh sentence.

Quasi-Objects for Moderns and Premoderns

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Ed Walker
Take another look at the response of the Catholic Church to Galileo and Copernican Theory.
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Bill Barr's Chosen US Attorney Signs Off on Aggressive Response to Mike Flynn

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emptywheel
There's good reason to worry that Bill Barr replaced the US Attorney in DC on short notice. But he appears to have signed off on a fairly aggressive response to Mike Flynn's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea.
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The Black Hole Where SSCI's Current Understanding of WikiLeaks Is

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emptywheel
Along with revealing that Putin waggled his nukes when the Obama Administration warned Putin not to tamper in the 2016 election, the SSCI Report on what Obama could have done better in 2016 has a curious black hole where its review of WikiLeaks is.
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Joshua Schulte's Hot and Cold Snowden Views

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emptywheel
The government is attempting to prove that Joshua Schulte's knowledge of the damage of past leaks shows he intended to damage the US when he leaked CIA's hacking tools. But his views about Edward Snowden may have changed over time.
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Why Hasn't George Papadopoulos Outed "Source 3"?

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emptywheel
Even though George Papadopoulos burned Stefan Halper as a source and accused tons of other people of being informants targeting him, he still hasn't identified the Source 3 described in the IG Report to whom he said some very damning things.
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The Real News in Bill Barr's Announcement: He's Vetoing Campaign Finance Investigations, Too

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emptywheel
Little noticed in Bill Barr's announcement that he gets to approve any investigation into presidential candidates and a ridiculously broad group of people associated with him is how dramatically he has expanded the policy since January.
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The Very Limited Republican Concern about FISA

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emptywheel
The FISA Court has complained about FBI surveillance practices, all occurring under Trump, affecting up to 135,476 Americans. And Republicans claiming to care about FISA are really just concerned about one of those Americans. 
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"What is the root user?" Joshua Schulte Set Up the Shared "root" Password He'll Use in His Defense

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emptywheel
Joshua Schulte migrated a shared root password to one of the servers involved in his alleged theft in March 2015.
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