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There was a bit of drama and excitement that went down in the middle of the night. The Swedish Prosecution Authority has officially reopened the case against Assange on the remaining rape allegation. Here is the official statement: Deputy…

In a frivolous pair of motions, Roger Stone is going after CrowdStrike's analysis of the Russian hack. In the first, he demands full unredacted copies of CrowdStrike's reports on the hacks. He bases that demand on a claim the CrowdStrike reports…

It's not surprising the government indicted Daniel Everette Hale as the Intercept's suspected Drone Wars source. It's surprising they waited five years.

For some reason, Mueller did not hold Mike Flynn responsible for -- at a time when he was under active counterintelligence investigation for his ties to Russia -- undercutting the official policy of the US on punishing Russia for its election year attack. I wonder whether the any counterintelligence interviews may explain why.

According to Andrew Weissmann, there was a lot of pressure to enter into a plea deal with Paul Manafort last September, which had the effect of shifting attention from the Mueller investigation during the election. We now know that prosecutors already knew he was lying to them when they entered into that plea deal.

In his SJC hearing today, the Attorney General said it was okay for Trump to obstruct the Mueller investigation because (he claims) Trump was falsely accused, without being aware that the report showed that several of the key allegations against Trump -- including that his campaign manager coordinated with Russians, including one Barr agrees is a bottom-feeding scum-sucker" with ties to Russian intelligence -- were actually true. 

It turns out there was a lot more implicating Carter Page as a willful agent of Russian than those wailing about his FISA application have let on.

The Mueller Report makes something else clear about the August 2, 2016 meeting between Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik. Trump's campaign manager attended a meeting with a guy his deputy believed was a Russian spy at a time when everyone else in the campaign was being told to defer such meetings because of the attention on his own ties with Kilimnik.

Reading the fine print of the Mueller Report, it appears that Trump never declined an invitation to attend the June 2016 St. Petersburg Forum where he might meet Putin and talk Towers.