When Insisting on the Letter of the Law Counts Amounts to Being "Hyper-Technical"

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emptywheel
MalwareTech lost on all his challenges to his indictment. Largely this amounted to a punt on the part of the magistrate, treating technical precedents as mere interpretations that the government can ignore at will.
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Mueller Had Learned by February 22 that Roger Stone Was Pushing an Assange Pardon in January

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emptywheel
I'm as interesting in how quickly Robert Mueller learned that Roger Stone was trying to get Julian Assange a pardon as I am that he made that effort earlier this year.
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Maria Butina's Legal Team Embraces Disinformation (with Help from Russia)

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emptywheel
Just days after DOJ sent Maria Butina's lawyers a letter asking why it hasn't picked up discovery made available a month ago, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spox is now claiming that DOJ hasn't given Butina discovery.
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The Universe of Hacked and Leaked Emails from 2016: Podesta Emails

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emptywheel
The story on how John Podesta's emails got to WikiLeaks -- a story Mueller didn't tell in his GRU indictment -- is critical to questions about what Roger Stone knew when.
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Detour: Roger Stone's Epically Shitty Explanation for His Podesta Tweet

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emptywheel
I've written before about how shitty Roger Stone's explanation for his "Podesta's time in the barrel" tweet. It's even shittier than I've written.

Democracy Against Capitalism: Conclusion Part 1

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Ed Walker
Marxism paints a bleak picture of the effects of capitalism on the planet and on individuals.
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On the Roger Stone Investigation: Talking to Guccifer 2.0 or WikiLeaks Is Not a Crime

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emptywheel
The press continues to report breathlessly that Mueller is scrutinizing whether Roger Stone had advance knowledge of WikiLeaks' plans. He's probably scrutinizing far more than that, because that by itself is not a crime.
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The Universe of Hacked and Leaked Emails from 2016: DNC Emails

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emptywheel
This series will try to capture what we know about four sets of emails Russians may have been dealing in 2016: the DNC emails, the Podesta emails, the DCCC emails, and the mythical emails Hillary deleted from her server.
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Talking Heads Trash Talk

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bmaz
As I, er, complained of in the Khashoggi post, a talking head came to my hood Wednesday to "engage". That was Chuck Todd and Meet The Press. It was a sham. Most all decent seats were RSVP'd or assigned to news people. There was nothing, and…
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Yevgeniy Prigozhin's Paid Trolls Prove His Legal Challenge to His Indictment To Be False

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emptywheel
Even while Yevgeniy Prigozhin's American lawyers were arguing that he and his company, Concord Management, had no idea it was illegal to troll in the US without registering, his trolls were exhibiting that they knew that was illegal.

Going To Cut Khashoggi Into Little Pieces

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bmaz
As a terrible week comes to a close, Trump's supporters, both in Congress and the insane right wing press, are now out pushing scurrilous and scandalous bullshit about Mr. Khashoggi, not to mention now playing up the celebration of Trumpian…
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In What May Be a Second Bid to Go after Yevgeniy Prigozhin and Vladimir Putin, DOJ Charges Prigozhin's Troll Accountant

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emptywheel
EDVA just charged the accountant Putin crony Yevgeniy Prigozhin uses to launder his Concord Consulting money into influence operations affecting US politics. This is probably a bid to shore up the theory of the case against Prigozhin.
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PSA: Don't Misunderstand the Function of a Mueller Report

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emptywheel
Politico ran a straw man argument, assuming that everyone agrees with its author that the Mueller report will be the great reveal. That's probably not correct.
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Who Told Carter Page that James Wolfe Was the Source of the FISA Leak?

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emptywheel
Carter Page made it clear to James Wolfe that he believed he was the source for the leak of his FISA warrant.
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On Corey Lewandowski's Big Legal Bills and Mueller's Deadline from Rosenstein

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emptywheel
Quarterly political spending reports are out and they provide some hints about which current or former Trump aides have been spending a lot of time with Mueller's investigators. The NYT reported the other day that the Trump campaign has paid…
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Rattled: China's Hardware Hack - PRC's Response

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Rayne
This is an analysis of the initial response Bloomberg Businessweek received from PRC's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to its story, The Big Hack.
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Still Rattled: Fallout and Pushback

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Rayne
Bloomberg Businessweek's The Big Hack drew a rash of criticism from across the tech industry and info security professionals, though they remain in denial about supply chain hacks.
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The First Amendment Wall-Splat that Anticipates Any Defense of a Trump Conspiracy or WikiLeaks Charge

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emptywheel
According to the logic the Trump campaign lays out in its First Amendment response to a Democratic lawsuit pertaining to the release of the DNC emails, the Democrats' failure was in not finding foreign hackers to steal and then publish Trump's tax returns. 
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Guccifer 2.0 Cleaned Up His "Collusion" Three Months after the Fact

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emptywheel
Three months after the original Guccifer 2.0 FAQ post was published, someone corrected a misuse of the word "collusion."
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