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The best measure of how inadquate CJR's attempt to explain the series Jeff Gerth made making false claims about the Russian investigation is that the even made no mention of Gerth's undisclosed reliance on a Russian intelligence report of dubious reliability.

In a Florence Pan opinion that Justin Walker largely joined, the DC Circuit rejected an interpretation of 18 USC 1512(c)(2) that Carl Nichols had singularly adopted on January 6 cases. But even where Walker and Pan differ, both would uphold the majority of obstruction cases currently or potentially charged.

As Jack Smith gets closer to making a decision on charges against Donald Trump, pundits who previously complained about the DOJ investigation, are suggesting that the Alvin Bragg indictment newly emboldened. That's nonsense, belied by the public record.

One of the only new details in the statement of facts regarding Trump's NY indictment relates to Robert Costello.

Anybody who thinks this is all cut and dried as Bragg makes it is a dope. To what extent we shall see.

In addition to showing that DOJ has developed additional evidence to substantiate suspicions they used to get a warrant to search Trump's beach resort, WaPo describes Jack Smith's team collecting the kind of evidence that might be used to charge individual documents as violations of the Espionage Act.

A jury just declared that the kind of disinformation that Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk are welcoming back on Twitter can be a crime.

NYT reports that Trump has been indicted. CNN has confirmed. A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic…

If you're going to expose yourself and your assistants to Espionage Act prosecution, the binder full of Crossfire Hurricane documents that Trump has obsessed about ever since is one dumbass document to do so over.

By the measure of evidence submitted in the trial of his co-conspirator, alleged John Podesta hacker Ivan Ermakov has been enjoying life in the years after his indictment by Robert Mueller. But the record of those exploits helped to convict his Vladislav Klyushin in a hack-and-trade conspiracy.