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Some Issues of Timing Revealed by Manafort's Filings

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emptywheel
On Tuesday, Mueller's team gave Paul Manafort the contents of Rick Gates' electronic devices for the first time. Yesterday, after receiving another large dump of evidence, Manafort asked to delay his July 25 trial.

Democracy Against Capitalism: Capital In A Fiat Money World

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Ed Walker
In Democracy Against Capitalism the Marxist scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood says that the driving force of capitalism is the urgent desire to accumulate more capital. As we know, and not just from Marx, capitalist only expends capital in the expectation…
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The Tea Leaves on Mueller's Hand Off

As part of writing this post, I confirmed for the first time that the prosecutor I spoke with regarding the Russian attack is not and never has been part of the Mueller team (among other things, I think that means Peter Strzok never got within…

Happy Fourth of July: Remembering the Why

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Rayne
America's founders didn't set out to create a summer holiday when they signed what for all intents and purposes was their death warrant.
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Putting a Face (Mine) to the Risks Posed by GOP Games on Mueller Investigation

The day after the election, I received a text saying Flynn was going to work on Syria.
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For Family and Country: The Questions Michael Cohen Won't (Yet) Answer

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emptywheel
Michael Cohen's new carefully coached attempt to get a plea deal makes it clear Trump knew of the June 9 Trump Tower meeting before it happened.
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On My Continuing Obsession with Paul Manafort's iPod Habit

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emptywheel
Paul Manafort (and maybe his wife) is the only one who has a Fourth Amendment interest in his iPods. I think that's why he's trying so hard to get the search and seizure of them suppressed.

Democracy Against Capitalism: The Separation Of Politics and Economics

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Ed Walker
Owners of capital control production and extract all profits. It didn't have to be that way.
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Peter Strzok's Out of Scope Polygraph

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emptywheel
In January 2016, Peter Strzok had an out of scope polygraph. But, as the IG found afterwards, the FBI wasn't always following its own protocols and pulling such people off sensitive investigations.
[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]

NSA -- Continually Violating FISA Since 2004

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emptywheel
The NSA just revealed it has been violating FISA for another 3 years.
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Paul Manafort's Four Oligarch Search Warrant

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emptywheel
Did the government unseal more of its search warrants on Paul Manafort because they'll need it in a suppression hearing Friday or to signal others what the government has?

Kennedy

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emptywheel
Anthony Kennedy just gave Donald Trump another SCOTUS appointment.
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In Trumpian Fashion, Paul Manafort Wins by Losing on Challenge to Mueller

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emptywheel
In the name of eliminating partisanship from the investigation of the President, TS Ellis engaged in a bunch of
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Devin Nunes Confirms Classified Information that "Henry Greenberg" Wasn't Working for the FBI, and Other Tales of the Half-Wit Running our Intelligence Oversight

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emptywheel
Devin Nunes not only just confirmed classified information (that the Russian dealing dirt on Hillary to Roger Stone in May 2016 wasn't working for the US), but he gave us a list of the people he thinks are being targeted by the Mueller investigation.
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Ike Kaveladze's Missing Suit

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emptywheel
I once argued that the public stories about the June 9 Trump Tower meeting were a limited hangout. In this post I wonder why Ike Kaveladze's suit got hung out.
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John Solomon's Baby Assange

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emptywheel
There are two telling details that John Solomon left out of this story, suggesting Jim Comey blew an opportunity to prevent the damage done by WikiLeaks' Vault 7 leak (and, purportedly, to learn the "real" source of the DNC emails), based on…
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Yevgeniy Prigozhin Doubles Down on Lawfare as Intelligence Collection

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emptywheel
Putin's chef is okay with the requirement that sensitive material turned over in discovery in the case against his company (and also him) stays in this country -- so long as his top lawyer is permitted to sneak that sensitive material out in his socks.
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Roger Stone and ConFraudUs

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emptywheel
If the evidence that Roger Stone might be indicted on a ConFraudUs charge is any indication, Mueller's probe may be coming to a head.
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