Private Government By Corporations

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Ed Walker
Corporations as Communist Dictatorships: great for masters but infringes on freedom of workers.
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It Doesn't Matter for Prosecutors' Case that Randy Credico Was Bragging or (Purportedly) Drunk

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emptywheel
Reporters who claim that Randy Credico's credibility (or lack thereof) in any way affects the abundant evidence proving the case against Stone seem to have missed that Stone's current defense strategy amounts to pleading guilty to four of the false statements charges against him.
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Why Won't Sean Hannity Defend Trump against Impeachment Under Oath?

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emptywheel
For some reason, Sean Hannity seems uninterested in defending the President against impeachment under oath.
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Rick Gates Got Sent Two Key Jerome Corsi Posts

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emptywheel
Two Jerome Corsi posts that are central to a theory I proposed about what Corsi and Stone were up to in 2016 got sent to the Trump campaign.
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Trash Talk

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bmaz
So, in a bit of frivolity, Pete T and Jim White tried to get me to feature the Mike Huckabee Band for Trash Talk. That is just not going to happen. And, yes, there may have been a bit of extra attention paid to Little Feat lately. Sorry! I…
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Three Questions Not Asked of Steve Bannon

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emptywheel
The questions Steve Bannon did not get asked today at Roger Stone's trial are as interesting as the questions he did get asked.
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Why Did Gucciardo Pay Giuliani Partners For His "Loan" To Fraud Guarantee?

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Jim White
So, Parnas had to be careful about funds flowing through entities he controlled, because the Pues Family attorneys were watching carefully (and in fact pounced on the news of the America First Action donation) and Rudy had to be careful about not having the money go directly to him or his ex-wife would seek the funds. Shouldn't Gucciardo have asked why the money didn't just go to Fraud Guarantee? Shouldn't he have asked why he had to divert funds to Rudy's consultancy? This just doesn't add up. Given his deep involvement with these same players, it seems much more likely Gucciardo understood the winks and nudges involved in getting funds to Giuliani in return for his "pro bono" representation of Donald Trump.
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Snowden Needs a Better Public Interest Defense, Part I: Bildungsroman

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emptywheel
I was really disappointed in Snowden's book. One big reason why is that his narrative -- a classic Bildungsroman -- undermines his public interest defense.
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The Cognitive Dissonance of Learning about Roger Stone's "Collusion"

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emptywheel
The confusion many people are expressing about how all Roger Stone and Donald Trump's efforts to optimize the release of Hillary's stolen emails is best addressed by reminding that the Mueller Report only addressed prosecutions and declinations, and "collusion" is not a crime. Per Mark Meadows' definition, Trump colluded.
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After Engaging in Multiple Overt Acts Benefitting a Conspiracy, Bill Barr Had Kerri Kupec Commit the Most Overt Act

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emptywheel
When Bill Barr had DOJ spox Kerri Kupec issue a statement exonerating the President rather than doing so himself, it was not a sign of any distance between Barr and the White House. Rather, it's evidence that Barr recognizes his own risk of becoming an active member of the conspiracy his DOJ went to great lengths to avoid investigating.  
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The Narrative and Legal Tensions Set on Day One of Roger Stone's Trial

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emptywheel
Here are three narrative and legal gaps that I think will end up being unexpected plot twists in Roger Stone's trial.
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emptywheel Fact Check Service -- DOJ, 1-1 // Sidney Powell, 0-29

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emptywheel
emptywheel fact check department has had far better success getting DOJ to fix errors than getting Powell to fix any of hers!
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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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