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Under a 2002 OLC memo interpreting the PATRIOT Act, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker can share information about Mueller's grand jury with the President.

If Mueller prepared for this very predictable eventuality of the firing of Jeff Session, then Trump may have just fired a key player in his racist agenda for naught. 

We have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and we're all out of bubblegum. This is an open thread — bring the ass-kicking.

I've argued that to the extent Mueller has a report written on his findings, it serves just as a Road Map packaged up for the House Judiciary Committee. This post examines what we might glean about Mueller's investigation if his Road Map matches the Watergate one.

This post shows how the Watergate Special Prosecutor's office went from collecting evidence against the President in summer 1973, to drafting an indictment by February 1, 1974, to packaging it all up to be sent to the House Judiciary Committee.

On Wednesday, the government rolled out new charges against alleged Vault 7 source, Joshua Schulte, accusing him of continuing to leak classified information while in jail. That same day, amid a fight that many people believe will lead to his expulsion from the embassy, Ecuador restricted his visits, even from lawyers, through the weekend.

The thing I'm most certain about the dueling NYT and Stone explanations for some emails sent between Steve Bannon and Roger Stone in early October 2016 is both sides are hiding something.

I think any of a number of possibilities for the identity of the mystery appellant challenging a Mueller order are more likely than the President.

I've said repeatedly that I think Mueller will continue to speak via indictments, not the report that Rudy Giuliani has everyone focused on. But if Trump tries to end the Mueller inquiry, than a report written in the style of the Jaworski Road Map would provide a way to ensure the House Judiciary Committee under Jerrold Nadler could continue the investigation.

Republicans believe that a President who refuses to take a very aggressive approach to terrorism should not be President. So for those Republicans, let's make this an issue not of the ways Trump's network fostered actions like we saw last week, but how Trump's Administration has chosen not to combat terrorism.