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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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The Papadopoulos Delay

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emptywheel
We now know that sometime after July 22, 2016, Australian Ambassador to the US, Joe Hockey, told the FBI that George Papadopoulos got drunk with Australia's Ambassador to the UK, Alexander Downer, two months earlier and told him he had learned…
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Oz on Papadopoulos

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emptywheel
GOPers are complaining that the FBI leaked a story about an Australian genesis to the Trump investigation to relieve pressure on Mueller. That doesn't accord with NYT's stated sources.
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NYT Does Not Have the Smoking Gun on Trump Campaign Email Knowledge

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emptywheel
The NYT had a big story about George Papadopoulos' role in blabbing about Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton, which led to the FBI opening an investigation. But they didn't reveal the two most important details: whether Papadopoulos knew which emails they were, and whether he told the campaign about it.
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End Of The Regular Season Road Trash

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bmaz
Welp, with this weekend, we have reached the end of the road for the regular season in the NFL and the NCAA, with only playoffs in the former and the BCS Championship game left in the latter. It is still early out here in the west, and I…
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What Explains Trump's Focus on Manafort?

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emptywheel
In his interview with the NYT, Trump seems far more worried about damage Manafort can do to him right now than any damage Flynn can.
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Corruption Is The Use Of Public Position For Private Gain

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Ed Walker
Society is operated through institutions wielding power. It's morally wrong and disgusting when the people who get that power use it for their personal gain.
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Chuck Johnson's Narrowed Scope of What a Russian Is Excludes Known Conspirators in Operation

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emptywheel
Chuck Johnson tried to limit any cooperation with the Senate Intelligence Committee in such a way that would exclude known suspects in the 2016 election operation.
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The Narrow Scope of the Flynn Denials

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emptywheel
Trump's lawyers are sending a message to Mike Flynn that they're going to attack him as a liar if he testifies to coordination between Trump's people and the Russians. But their denial of such coordination is laughably narrow.
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Why Call Alice Donovan a Troll?

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emptywheel
Both WaPo and CounterPunch describe how a Russian persona published at CP and others. But why do they call the persona a troll?
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Happy Holidays to All

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emptywheel
Merry Christmas!
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In August 2016, Rinat Akhmetshin Suggested Russian Adoptions Would Resume Under Trump

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emptywheel
A Bloomberg piece on the NGO that Rinat Akhmetshin reportedly was representing in the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting makes it clear that Akhmetshin had confidence the Magnitsky sanctions would be reversed after the election.
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In Which Former NatSec Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy Embraces Russian Disinformation

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emptywheel
Andrew McCarthy argues the Steele dossier is Russian disinformation. And then he willingly takes part in that disinformation.
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Modern Lovers Christmas Trash

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bmaz
Happy Holidays! Or are we mandated to call it "Merry Christmas" in the Trump Age? Your local blogger may have a hard time understanding the new dynamics. This bullshit issue is symptomatic of the national condition currently. It is contrived,…
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On Jim Baker's Non-Prosecution for Leaking

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emptywheel
From the sounds of thing, it makes sense that Jim Baker wasn't prosecuted for leaking. But others should be treated under the same standard he was.
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On Pierre Bourdieu Part 2: Systems of Domination

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Ed Walker
Societies are organized to reproduce existing systems of dominance. This benefits the elites at the expense of the rest of us.
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Congress Should Revert to Section 702 as Passed in 2008, If That's What the Spooks Want!

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emptywheel
In an last ditch effort to spook Congress into passing a long-term 702 reauthorization, the spooks say that Congress had it right in 2008 when they authorized a Section 702 that didn't have many of the most invasive aspects.
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A Thousand Days of Hell in Yemen Produce a Million Cases of Cholera

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Jim White
War crimes are being committed on a daily basis in Yemen and the world barely takes notice. The Saudi bombardment of Yemen, enabled by the US, is now 1000 days old, has forced millions of Yemenis into starvation and caused a million cases of cholera.
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