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The President who cried "wiretap" once too often should be treated with a great deal of skepticism when another story he was wiretapped comes out.

In Part Two of a series on how the Mueller questions map out cultivation, a quid pro quo, and a cover-up, I show how over the course of the campaign the Russians and Trump danced around a quid pro quo trading election help for sanctions relief.

Adopting an argument Orin Kerr advanced not long after Marcus Hutchins was charged, his defense argues his indictments should be dismissed outright.

Before the press fact checks Trump's claims that Robert Mueller's questions don't include any addressing "collusion," they might consider how they've been complicit in setting up that narrative.

People often mistake hope for a feeling, but it's not. It's a mental discipline, an attentional practice that you can learn. Like any such discipline, it's work that takes time, which you fail at, succeed, improve, fail at again, and build over years inside yourself.

The big takeaway from Richard Engel's interview of Natalia Veselnitskaya -- that she admitted to being an "informant" to Russia's prosecutor general -- is not as interesting as her admission that she worked for an entity with some ties to FSB. And neither is the smoking gun on Russian involvement in the Trump Tower meeting.

Okay, it has been a while since we had a real Trash Talk. So here we go. Not a particularly deep one, but between the NFL Draft, which has been pretty interesting, and the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku, it seemed like a decent opportunity for…

The HPSCI Report suggests that if only Trump had gotten a warning that his campaign was infiltrated with people that FBI had Russian counterintelligence concerns about, he wouldn't have hired them. Except the example of Mike Flynn proves that's not true.