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What Prosecutors Need to Show to Prove Roger Stone Guilty

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emptywheel
Here's a primer on how much evidence the government has to prove that Roger Stone lied to Congress.
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When Your Joint Defense Agreement with the Russian Mob Blows Up in Your Face

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emptywheel
Lev Parnas seems to be preparing to put the screws to Trump.
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What the Exhibit Decisions and the Witness List Say to Expect from Roger Stone's Trial (Updated)

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emptywheel
A list of witnesses for the Roger Stone trial.
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Sidney Powell Complains That Peter Strzok Is Too OCD to Investigate Her Client

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emptywheel
Along with the normal froth-bait, SIdney Powell includes a new accusation against Peter Strzok in her sur-surreply pretending to ask for Brady materials: Peter Strzok is too OCD to prosecute her client.
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People Who Illegally Withheld Duly Appropriated Funding Refuse to Explain to Congress Why

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emptywheel
Today's obstruction may feel like the same old obstruction but I suspect it comes with new legal exposure.
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The Mueller Report Was Neither about Collusion Nor about Completed Investigation(s)

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emptywheel
Critics of Mueller on both sides of support in the underlying investigation are misunderstanding certain things about what the Mueller Report actually did.
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DOJ Pre-Dumps the Stone Trial: What BuzzFeed Obtained via FOIA

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emptywheel
BuzzFeed obtained some really damning Mueller-related documents via FOIA. But the released documents are mostly just a pre-dump of what will get aired in the Roger Stone trial.
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Rubber Biscuit Trash Talk

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bmaz
Eh, late start here. Been tied up on Twitter reading and discussing the FOIA doc dump obtained and published by Jason Leopold and Anthont Cormier of Buzzfeed. Check Marcy's Twitter feed and other posts here for that, it is....something. Somehow…
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Attorney General Bill Barr Has a Higher Opinion of George Papadopoulos' Dirt than Steve Bannon Does

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emptywheel
Steve Bannon, who'll accept dirt from just about anyone, claims he wouldn't accept dirt from George Papadopoulos because he is a clown. I guess he knows something the Attorney General does not.
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On the Classification Disputes over Mike Flynn's Discovery

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emptywheel
The debate over redactions in Flynn's discovery is particularly interesting given the John Durham referral the same
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The Government Reminds Emmet Sullivan that Mike Flynn Already Agreed His Current Complaints Don't Change His Guilt

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emptywheel
In its surreply to Mike Flynn's demand to have his entire prosecution thrown out, the government reminds Emmet Sullivan he already dealt with all this.
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Meanwhile, The Pace Of US War Crimes In Afghanistan Accelerates Dramatically

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Jim White
Night raids carried out by CIA-trained paramilitary groups in Afghanistan have become more frequent--and more deadly--under Donald Trump. A new report from Human Rights Watch labels many of the things they found as war crimes.
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Three Things: Double, Double, Toil and Rubble

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Rayne
Happy Halloween to all our ghouls and goblins. We have plenty of tricks and not too many treats before us today, including the House resolution approving continuation of an impeachment inquiry.
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The Republican Closing Argument against Impeachment Is Personally Implicated in the Scandal

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emptywheel
Kevin McCarthy, who became Majority Leader with the support of two men already indicted for the influence operation behind the impeachment inquiry, is the face of opposition to impeachment.
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The Ellipses and the Recordings, Plural, of Joe Biden

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emptywheel
For some reason, the NYT thinks Trump referred to more than one recording of Biden talking corruption. It is not at all unreasonable to imagine he knows of classified recordings.
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Emmet Sullivan Just Learning of Sidney Powell's Bait-and-Switch

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emptywheel
Sidney Powell has already won the first battle on her stunt to have Flynn's guilty pleas thrown out, because Emmet Sullivan has not decided to ignore all her new pleadings. But if this goes wrong, it could go horribly wrong for her.
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Alexander Vindman Proves That Working Within System Works Even While Derek Harvey Works To Destroy It

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Jim White
It's hard to imagine two more polar opposites than Alexander Vindman and Derek Harvey. Vindman is a patriot committed to the security of the US and working within the system while Harvey is willing to sell out US security to whatever wingnut is willing to pay him and to bypass every safeguard built into the system.
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Laura Cooper's Forgotten Deposition

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Rayne
What was it about Cooper's anticipated testimony last week which required such a big dog-and-pony show to suck up media attention to propel the GOP's misdirection while cutting into Cooper's deposition?
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How Sidney Powell Misrepresents Her Evidence in Her Fake Brady Motion

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emptywheel
With one possible exception, virtually every argument Sidney Powell made in an inflammatory bid to get Mike Flynn's guilty pleas thrown out crumbles on close scrutiny.
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Sidney Powell Accuses Mike Flynn of Lying to the FBI on January 24, 2017

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emptywheel
In a motion arguing that only people who have an animus against Mike Flynn would accuse him of lying to the FBI, she accuses him of lying to the FBI.
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