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Light Cycles

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Quinn Norton
In 8 minutes, 18 seconds light travels from the sun to Earth. In that time, roughly 25 million in national debt accrues. Somewhere around 157,806 tonnes of CO2 is released into the atmosphere. 113,046 years of global human experience goes by in 8 minutes, 18 seconds. Around 900 people die -- a Jonestown Tragedy, if such a thing could be a unit. 
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Shorter Yevgeniy Prigozhin: Don't Send the PII We Already Stole -- Just Send the Intelligence

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emptywheel
In response to Mueller's attempt to keep intelligence out of the hands of Yevgeniy Prigozhin, Concord Management is demanding that Mueller only send the intelligence but not the Personally Identifiable Information Russia already stole.
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James Wolfe: The Distinction Between FBI's Investigation of Leaking Classified versus Non-Public Information

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emptywheel
Several details about the James Wolfe investigation suggest DOJ may view the false statements charges against James Wolfe as a
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Ty Cobb's Claim about White House Counsel Recusal Can Only Be Narrowly True

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emptywheel
Ty Cobb is publicly claiming that Don McGahn recused the entire White House Counsel's Office from the Russia investigation. But that probably happened later than Cobb is suggesting.
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The Decline and Recent Fall of Manafort's Hapsburg Empire

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emptywheel
Manafort would have been fucked even if he had used sound operational security, because the guy he tried to get to lie for him took screen caps of his WhatsApp texts in real time.
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Mueller to Yevgeniy Prigozhin: Sure You Can Have Discovery ... If You Come to the United States to Get It

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emptywheel
Mueller has sent a key message to Yevgeniy Prigozhin. He'll only share discovery with him if he shows up to the US to be arrested before he receives it.
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The Crimes with which NSD Envisions Charging Those Attacking Elections

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emptywheel
The comparison of what NSD DAAD Adam Hickey thinks might be used to punish those who tampered with a hypothetical election and what Ryan Goodman and Ken Wainstein may hint at what Hickey knows from the Mueller investigation.
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The New Cyber Sanctions

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emptywheel
Even as Trump was working hard to get Russia admitted back into the G-7, Treasury was preparing new cyber sanctions against a number of "Russian" entities. This appears to be an effort to apply sanctions for activities exploiting routers and…
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Revisiting Trump's Joint Defense Agreement

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emptywheel
Daily Beast reminds us that Trump and a number of the other subjects of the conspiracy investigation have a joint defense agreement. That's more interesting in light of a number of things we've subsequently learned.
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"I Mean His Trump Organization Employees"

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emptywheel
For some reason, Ike Kaveladze was particularly interested that Michael Cohen and Keith Schiller showed up in a 2013 video leaked as the Trumps and Agalarovs tried to deal with the June 9 meeting scandal last year.
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Democracy Against Capitalism: Introduction to New Series

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Ed Walker
Criticizing capitalism is slowly becoming fashionable. Marxists have been doing it forever.
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On the Eve of the June 9 Trump Tower Meeting Anniversary, Putin Tells Trump to Keep His Campaign Promises

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emptywheel
Trump and Putin seem to be signaling each other again, with Putin demanding that Trump keep his campaign promises.
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On the Tactics of the Latest Manafort Indictment

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emptywheel
To me, the new Manafort indictment is a tactical means to ensure he goes to jail without showing much more evidence, but it points to a bunch of underlying collection that likely hasn't been disclosed yet.
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Some Possibilities on the Emails Hope Hicks Wanted to Withhold

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emptywheel
It turns out there are emails that didn't get released to Congress in the first go-around.
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Google at Temple: Did DOJ Follow Its New Guidelines on Institutional Gags?

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emptywheel
The seizure of Ali Watkins' email subscriber records from when she was at Temple marks the second time the university had a community member's records seized without launching a First Amendment challenge.
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On the James Wolfe Indictment: Don't Forget Carter Page

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emptywheel
Carter Page is crazy and may well have been a willing recruit for the Russians. But there are reasons the leaks about the investigation into him were problematic as well.
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The Smoking Craters Where Trump Deal Brokers Used to Be

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emptywheel
The deeper we get down the Trump corruption rabbit hole, and the role of real estate brokers becomes all the more obvious.
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To Pre-empt an Ass-Handing, the Government Lards on Problematic New Charges against MalwareTech

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emptywheel
Among other things the government did in a bid to save face against Marcus Hutchins is charge him for actions he did when he was a minor, actions for which the statute of limitations has expired, and a lie that a prosecutor claimed the contrary of in court last year.
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