,

BREAKING! Robert Mueller Would Be Fucking Stupid If He DIDN'T Subpoena Trump Organization

44 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
In the latest edition of MAKING BREAKING CLICKBAIT OUT OF NORMAL DEVELOPMENTS, the NYT has reported that Robert Mueller subpoenaed the Trump Organization.
Read more →
, ,

The New Russian Hack Sanctions

19 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
We appear to have identified two new people associated with GRU's hacking information, even if the most recent intelligence we admit to having on one dates to the days of the election hack.
Read more →
, , ,

Some Cover-Ups Are More Equal Than Other Cover-Ups

21 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
The same people outraged over HPSCI's laughable cover-up of Trump's dalliance with Russia have themselves been participants in the cover-up of torture.
Read more →

Those Trump Panama Hotel Documents? Might Include DOD Grift

19 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Apparently DOD spent $17,000 at the money laundering vehicle hotel in Panama that Trump just lost control of.
Read more →

Lordy, There Were Tapes

39 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
In their memo laying out what HPSCI didn't investigate, the Democrats suggest there were recordings of Trump's meetings with Jim Comey, but they got destroyed, and that there's still a memo memorializing what happened.
Read more →
,

Why Do You Send Your Digital Guy to Meet with the Russian Ambassador?

24 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
The House Intelligence Democrats' report on the things not studied in the Russia hints that Jared Kushner sent the campaign's digital guy to go meet with Sergey Kislyak a month after the election.
Read more →

Open Thread: Russia, Russia, Russia! and Everything Else

104 Comments
/
/
Rayne
This is an open thread launched while current events still unfold. It may offer an overview for folks still acquainting themselves with the news about Rex Tillerson, Russia, and the UK.
Read more →
, ,

Welcome to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Pompeo -- the Latest Committee to Have Reason to Investigate Russia!

74 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
House Intelligence Republicans yesterday made asses of themselves in an attempt to get Russian investigations off the front page. But by nominating Pompeo to be Secretary of State, Trump just gave an entirely different committee, one far more hawkish on Russia issues, reason to start a new investigation into Trump -- and Pompeo's -- Russia dalliances. 
Read more →
,

The Timing of the Felix Sater Interviews

79 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
In spite of the fact that -- as Buzzfeed reports -- Felix Sater has past relationships with six members of Mueller's team, they didn't get around to interviewing him until after Mike Flynn's plea deal.
Read more →
, , ,

How the DNC Hack Skeptics' Dominant Theory Sinks Stone

11 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Roger Stone's explanation of his communications, directly, with Guccifer 2.0, and indirectly, with Wikileaks, is designed to put his actions after the criminal activities. But according to the skeptics timeline, that's not right.
Read more →
, ,

Why Has Putin Changed His Mind about Whether Russians Who Hacked the US Are Patriots Or Others?

55 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Back in June, Putin imagined that any Russians (not connected to the state, of course!) who hacked the US would be patriots. Now, he's suggesting they'd be Others, not true Russians. What changed?
Read more →
[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]
, , ,

Reality Winner: The Cost of Mounting a Defense Arguing the Government Overclassifies

23 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
According to a proposed schedule in Reality Winner's prosecution, she will have been in jail for at least 19 months by the time they get around
Read more →
[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]
, ,

The Preferred Anti-Obama Russian Hack Story Remains Silent on Shadow Brokers

48 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
David Corn and Michael Isikoff tell the same story about how Obama ordered his NSC to stand down from any aggressive response to Putin's hack of the election.
Read more →
,

Oleg Deripaska Gets Ahead of His Own Fusion Dossier (and Manafort Prosecution?) Disclosures

26 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska just wrote a very well executed column seemingly attempting to get ahead of something in the Mueller investigation.
Read more →
Money by Kevin Dooley via Flickr
,

Senate Democrats Caving, May Roll Back Dodd-Frank Regulations

49 Comments
/
/
Rayne
Didn't Congress learn anything from 2008? Didn't Democrats in particular learn anything from the banking-created crash? Tell them to get a clue and vote NO on S.2155 banking regulation roll-back.
Read more →
, , ,

Roger Stone's Rat-Eating Swiss Cheese Denials

44 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
In Roger Stone's denial of conspiring with the Russians yesterday, he effectively admits to reaching out to the person he believed at the time to have hacked the DNC.
Read more →
,

Nunberg's Claim that Trump Talked of the June 9 Meeting the Week Before Is Plausible

165 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
It is possible that, as Sam Nunberg claimed on cable today, Trump knew and talked about the June 9 meeting "the week before."
Read more →
,

The Nunberg Subpoena: Is He Protecting Bannon, Rather than Trump?

60 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Sam Nunberg's the one leaking his subpoena to half the journalists in DC. Is he doing it to protect Bannon?
Read more →
,

15 Months and 15,000 Words Later, Boosters Still Obscure the Timeline on the Steele Dossier

40 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
While Jane Mayer's 15,000 word piece on the Steele dossier provides two new scoops, it still replicates all the timeline obfuscation that all dossier boosters do.
Read more →
Share this entry