Three Things: 'She's Going to Go Through Some Things'

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Rayne
House Intelligence Committee released some materials provided to them by Lev Parnas, revealing Trump's Ukraine scandal is even uglier than expected. Here's three things the public now needs.
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In a Filing Claiming He's Innocent, Mike Flynn's Lawyers Accuse Mike Flynn of Lying Under Oath

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emptywheel
In a filing claiming things that Flynn testified to under oath are not true, Mike Flynn's lawyers argue he's innocent of the charges that he lied which he twice pled guilty to under oath.
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The Parnas Files Raise the Import of DOJ's Failure to Connect-the-Dots on the Whistleblower Complaint

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emptywheel
Last night, HPSCI released some of Lev Parnas' files that were seized as part of the investigation into Rudy Giuliani and his grifters. The most important document, for the legal impeachment case against Donald Trump, is a letter Rudy sent…
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Useful But Not Sufficient: FBI's FISA Fix Filing

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emptywheel
The FISA Fix Filing that FBI submitted to the FISC Friday has some good improvements. But they're unlikely to fix the problems identified in the Carter Page application by themselves.
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Is Bill Barr Picking a Fight with Apple to Distract from the Failure of Trump's Social Media Vetting?

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emptywheel
Bill Barr is blaming Apple for not doing enough in the wake of Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani attack on some sailors in Pensacola. He should instead be explaining how intrusive new vetting that Trump ordered failed to prevent the attack.
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College Football Championship Monday

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bmaz
Monday is the fun day this extended football week. I intentionally did not put this in the Division Weekend post. Oh, and as to that, as usual, my off the cuff picks were not, shall we say, exactly right. You get what you pay for. Niners won…
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The Revelations about FISA Bureaucracy in FBI's FISA Fix Filing

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emptywheel
The filing DOJ and FBI submitted to FISC on Friday included some interesting details about how the FISA process works.
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NFL Divisional Playoff Weekend

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bmaz
The wildcards have been played, and resulted in a couple of surprises. The Vikes took out the heavily favored Saints in Nawlins, and the Titans took out the Pats in Foxborough. The latter less shocking given how well the Titans played closing…
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Steve Bannon's 302 of Laughter and Forgetting

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emptywheel
The interview Steve Bannon had with Mueller's team on February 14, 2018 was full of fairly aggressive forgetting and reinventing. The stories he told are all the more interesting given what he has since testified to under oath.
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Joshua Schulte's Carefully Crafted Plan to (Metaphorically) Blow Up His Trial

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emptywheel
Joshua Schulte's legal strategy seems to be making his attorneys crazy which is unsurprising because it's making me crazy just reading about it.
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The Republican Party Is No Longer the Party of Personal Responsibility

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emptywheel
Trump is already preparing to scapegoat Democrats, Iranians, and NATO for a decision he owns entirely. The implications of that are particularly dangerous.
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Nunes Memo v Schiff Memo: Neither Were Entirely Right

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emptywheel
It turns out the Nunes Memo and the Schiff Memo got stuff wrong and got stuff right. This post uses the IG Report to test the claims made in both.
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The Bigger Threat for Flynn than Six Months in Prison: the Counterintelligence Language

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emptywheel
The Flynn sentencing memo gives Emmet Sullivan all he needs to throw the book at Flynn. But it does something more. It talks, obliquely, about the counterintelligence damage Flynn did.
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Prosecutors Invite Emmet Sullivan to Throw the Book at Mike Flynn

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emptywheel
The government's sentencing memo doesn't tell Emmet Sullivan they want Flynn to be sentenced for six months, but it gives him all the ammunition he'd need to impose that sentence himself.
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The DOJ IG Report on Carter Page: Policy Considerations

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emptywheel
A set of questions that members of Congress should ask in the wake of the Carter Page IG Report.
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A Few Thoughts On Carter Page Warrants, Franks v. Delaware and Michael Horowitz

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bmaz
The thought that the Page affidavits would not stand up under the mere ex-parte probable cause standard of Franks is ridiculous. Of course they would have.
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DOJ IG Report on Carter Page and Related Issues: Mega Summary Post

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emptywheel
This post is an overall summary of what the DOJ IG Report on Carter Page says about his targeting. It explains the problems with his applications, but also raises questions policy makers should be asking about whether he should have been targeted.
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Jerome Corsi's Descent into Madness

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emptywheel
Among the Mueller documents released to BuzzFeed under FOIA the other day are five of Jerome Corsi's six interview reports (called 302s). Two 302s from Ted Malloch were released as well. I suspect these were released now so that they could be…
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