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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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Angry Mom: Hey Attention Deficit Media, Catch a Clue!

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Rayne
I don't even have a real post for this because I am so goddamned angry right now. PAY ATTENTION, DAMN IT. Where are the girls, the babies, all of the children?
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Angry Mom: Hiding the Trumpian Genocide's Records

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Rayne
When I think I can't get any angrier, the Trump administration proves there isn't a limit to how low they will go. ICE asked last year to shorten the time it keeps records on sexual assaults and deaths of detained immigrants in custody.
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What Seems to be Going on with MalwareTech's New Charges

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emptywheel
The government seems to have fixed a lot of problems with their case against Marcus Hutchins in the superseding indictment.
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Angry Mom: I See Dead Children

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Rayne
The Trump administration has been planning these 'death camps' for a year. Don't tell me it's hyperbole when they can't show us the girls and babies.
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Two Days after Julian Assange Threatened Don Jr, Accused Vault 7 Leaker Joshua Schulte Took to Tor

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emptywheel
Monday, the government rolled out a superseding indictment for former NSA and CIA hacker Joshua Schulte, accusing him (obliquely) of leaking the CIA's hacking tools that became the Vault 7 release from Wikileaks. The filings in his docket (as…
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Two Details about DOJ IG's Leak Investigations, Plural, Including the One into Rudy Giuliani's Sources

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emptywheel
Michael Horowitz dropped a few tidbits between the two hearings on the Hillary investigation. First, DOJ IG has multiple leak investigations ongoing. And they may have been referred criminally.
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Why Was George Papadopoulos Bitching about the UK While Working on His Presentencing Report?

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emptywheel
George Papadopoulos, who must be in the middle of working on his motion to avoid prison time, just tweeted what appears to be a reference to perfidious Albion, a slur about the UK selling people out on matters of diplomacy and spying.
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His Girl Friday, But At The New York Times

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bmaz
There is a wiki level amount of coverage currently of the so called "Fourth Estate". It seems so trite and antiquated now. How will an honest press deal with an aberrant malefactor writ large like Donald J. Trump? It is no longer a test…

Name the Social Media Author: Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Or Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz?

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emptywheel
Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz had very grave things to say about the bias of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in today's hearing on the investigation into Hillary Clinton. And they should know such bias, because they've said very similar things about Donald Trump.
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The Trump People Really Really Want to Know How Much Mueller Knows about Roger Stone's "Collusion"

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emptywheel
Roger Stone wants to create another pseudo-scandal by suggesting he was targeted with a FISA order. All the available evidence suggests a judge instead found there is probable cause to believe his phone contains evidence of one or more crimes.
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Who Taught Trump about Weaponized Migration?

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emptywheel
One of Trump's most horrifying lines from the G-7, basically threatening the kind of weaponized migration that threatens to rip apart the European project, suggests someone very savvy has privileged access to Trump.
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The Most Irresponsible Thing Michael Horowitz Has Done as DOJ IG

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emptywheel
I'm a big fan of Michael Horowitz. But releasing link analyses on which Agents talk to reporters without telling us whether they confirm the widespread understanding that the famously anti-Hillary NY office leaks like a sieve was inexcusably irresponsible.
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In Attempt to Learn How Much Mueller Knows about Roger Stone's "Collusion," Devin Nunes Blames FBI for Stone and Michael Caputo's Perjury to HPSCI

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emptywheel
Roger Stone and Michael Caputo lied to Devin Nunes' committee to hide one instance where they considered conspiring with a Russian to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton. Devin Nunes' response to that clear case of perjury is to call for the impeachment of Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Wray.
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Rat-Fucker Extraordinaire Roger Stone Probably Had Far More Damning Texts Seized by FBI on March 9

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emptywheel
Roger Stone is back in the limited hangout business, this time in regards to outreach from a Russian former FBI informant offering dirt on the Clinton Foundation.
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By January, Trump Believed Manafort Could Flip on Him; Since Then, Trump Learned Mueller Wanted to Know about Manafort's Requests to Russia for Help

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emptywheel
Back in January, Trump was telling friends and aides that Manafort had information that could incriminate him if he flipped. Since then, Mueller informed Trump that he wanted to know if Trump knew about Manafort's requests to Russia for help on his election.
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The IG Report (and Public Evidence) Shows that Peter Strzok Lost the Argument to Investigate Aggressively

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emptywheel
Trump thinks Peter Strzok's texts are evidence of a conspiracy against him. Instead, they're proof that Strzok lost the battles to investigate the suspected Russian assets on his campaign more aggressively.
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