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Let me tell you a story

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Quinn Norton
People often wonder about how attraction affects whether an interaction is sexual harassment or not. I have an answer for that, a story from my own life. This is my story, but I'm so damn tired of starring in it. Let's make it your story this…
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Stephen Miller Claims that Trump's Russian Investigation Line Was a Disclaimer

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emptywheel
Before having to be escorted off Jake Tapper's set the other day, Stephen Miller explained how the second letter firing Comey was designed to obstruct justice.
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Trump's Obstruction Defense: Rod Rosenstein Wrote a Letter

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emptywheel
Trump apparently believes he's get off of obstruction charges by pointing the meaner things Rod Rosenstein said about Jim Comey than he said in his own firing letter.
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Mark Corallo's Obstruction Concerns: "The President...did not attend the meeting."

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emptywheel
The last words Mark Corallo issued before leaving the Trump White House out of concerns of obstruction of justice were, "The President was not aware of and did not attend the meeting."
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The Misrepresentations of the Simpson-Veselnitskaya Meetings

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emptywheel
It seems like both Natalia Veselnitskaya and Fox News mischaracterized meetings between her and Glenn Simpson the week of the Trump Tower meeting in 2016.
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[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]

What HPSCI Wants to Protect in 702: Back Doors, the Tor Exception, and a Dysfunctional FISC

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emptywheel
You can tell a lot about what HPSCI wants to protect from the flyer they released attacking the USA Rights reauthorization of 702. For example, HPSCI Wants to Protect encryption back doorrs, the Tor Exception, and a dysfunctional FISC.
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The Political Gift Economy

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Ed Walker
How do people hide corruption from themselves?
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Why Did Ivanka Run into Just Veselnitskaya and Akhmetshin at the Trump Tower Elevator?

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emptywheel
If Ivanka ran into just Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin at the Trump Tower elevator on June 9, 2016, it means it is possible two Agalarov employees remained behind.
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Won't Doubling Down on Paul Manafort Being a Traitor Make Him More Likely To Flip?

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emptywheel
Steve Bannon's apology for suggesting Don Jr's actions surrounding the Trump Tower meeting is pretty obsequious. But he's absolutely silent about Jared Kushner. And his comments about Manafort might make it more likely he flips.
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Stephen Miller Spends 12 Minutes Refusing to Answer Whether Trump Met with Russians Offering Dirt

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emptywheel
Over the course of 12 minutes, Stephen Miller never managed to say "no" in response to Jake Tapper's question about whether Trump had met with any of the Russians from the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
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The Base Bill for 702 Reauthorization: Serial Admissions Oversight Committees Haven't Been Doing Their Jobs

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emptywheel
The 702 reauthorization bill being sent to the rules committee on Tuesday is most notable for how many times it admits the oversight committees haven't been doing their job.
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Wildcard Weekend 2017

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bmaz
The regular season is finally over, and after a horrible schedule of boring games to close it out last weekend, we are on to the playoffs. Playoffs?!?! Yeah, here were for Wildcard Weekend 2017, and it is on to the games: First up is Tennessee…
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The Government's MalwareTech Case Goes (Further) To Shit

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emptywheel
The government's case against MalwareTech continues to go to shit. But for some reason, they haven't done the honorable thing, which would be to dismiss the charges and give him an H1B so he can surf off the stress of the last 6 months.
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Did The Most Senior White House Official Lie to the NYT about the Content of the Comey Firing Letter?

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emptywheel
Given that Mike Schmidt's big story on obstruction follows so closely on his interview with Trump, what are the chances that the most senior White House official lied to Schmidt about what he had written to justify firing Jim Comey? 
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Paul Manafort Has Conducted His Oleg Deripaska Dalliance on PRISM Provider Google's Servers

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emptywheel
Paul Manafort's access to Oleg Deripaska via Konstantin Kilimnik is apparently still going through Google's servers.
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Why I Left The Intercept: The Surveillance Story They Let Go Untold for 15 Months

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emptywheel
The Intercept has the story of the surveillance stories the NYT didn't want to publish when James Risen reported them. I guess it's a good time to tell the story of the surveillance story the Intercept didn't want to publish when I reported it in 2014.
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On Pierre Bourdieu Part 3: Habitus

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Ed Walker
One of Bourdieu's central ideas is habitus, which explains how people participate in the competition for scarce resources of economic, social and cultural capital.
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Reminder: The Guy Killing the HPSCI Investigation Was Part of Trump's Troubled Transition Team

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emptywheel
Why do we keep forgetting that Nunes was a member of the Transition Team that any credible Congressional investigation would be targeting?
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Two Months After Papadopoulos Plea Revealed, Mifsud's Past Still Being Scrubbed

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Jim White
Interactions between George Papadopoulos and Joseph Mifsud focused on arranging high level meetings between the Trump campaign and Russia. When we learn who worked to bring Papadopoulos and Mifsud together, we may learn who wanted the meetings to occur. There appears to be an ongoing effort to hide those who orchestrated these events.
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Speech and Email Release: The Three Public Statement Signals Tied to Russia's Dirt-as-Emails

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emptywheel
With Papadopoulos' use of an April 27, 2016 Trump speech to send a signal to the Russians, it raises the number of times a public statement he alerted Ivan Timofeev to coincided with significant events tied to hacked emails.
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