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FISC wants to know why FBI should keep any of the Carter Page surveillance.

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.

Lev Parnas claims the government caused any delay in cooperating with the House. But his 16 day delay in providing a hard drive to obtain discovery guaranteed he could not have cooperated before the House had already voted out articles of impeachment.

You'd think we were all in Newfoundland buried beneath multiple feet of snow given the blizzard of bullshit Trump and his reality TV cast have been spewing. The truth they want to bury is a rather familiar phrase.

After a week of Lev Parnas' media campaign, the entire point of it begins to make more sense.

Last Sunday of football before the Super Bowl, so only two games today. But they should be great ones. Couple of other things in the news too.

The George Papadopoulos 302s laid out yesterday definitely show why the government believed Papadopoulos was deliberately lying to them in interviews in January and February 2017 -- though he did keep saying he wanted to help them. The 302s also raise real questions about whether Papadopoulos reached out to Trump's lawyers during this process.

In the story Lev Parnas is currently selling to the press, he only got meetings with corrupt Ukrainians by invoking Trump's name. But he let slip last night that Igor Fruman's network has an important role, too.

Parnas' claims to have followed the opinion of those around him rather than led pretty demonstrably conflict with the way he incited Trump to fire Marie Yovanovitch a year before Trump ultimately did so.

Until we understand why Lev Parnas is doing what he's doing -- why he inserted himself into the right wing echo chamber in the first place, and why he's so insistent on telling us what we want to hear now -- we would do well to exercise caution about the stories he's telling.