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When "Lock Her Up!" becomes "Wait Till Later!"

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emptywheel
Trump says he's too busy running for President to stand trial to determine whether he made false promises to protect classified information the last time he ran, only to use access he obtained as President to steal the nation's secrets.
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Stanley Woodward Tests Judge Aileen Cannon's Patience

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emptywheel
With his first filing in the Walt Nauta case, Stanley Woodward has decided to test -- tactically -- Judge Aileen Cannon's patience.
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The Blind Squirrel's Nut: Chuck Grassley Unwittingly Debunks Bill Barr

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emptywheel
Chuck Grassley has unwittingly revealed that the briefing of an FD-1023 that Pittsburgh FBI agents gave David Weiss' office days after Rudy Giuliani revealed his tie to the "Hunter Biden" "laptop"--which Bill Barr spun as an investigation into the bribery allegation in it--instead came as the office was reviewing the damage to the tax investigation of Rudy's political hit job.
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Gary Shapley and Hunter Biden's Colleague Named "Z"

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emptywheel
Around the same time someone downloaded Hunter Biden's iCloud account, someone restored his contacts list.
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The Laptop Everyone Knows as Hunter Biden's Appears to Have Been Deleted Starting February 15, 2019

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emptywheel
In January 2019, the Gmail account Hunter Biden used to contact sex workers took over his iCloud account and ordered all his content for download. The next month, the data on the Hunter Biden laptop was deleted.
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The Fifteenth Amendment

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Ed Walker
The weakest possible voting rights amendment
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Walt Nauta and the Single Box

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emptywheel
One thing appears in the Trump indictment that doesn't appear in the search warrant affidavit from last year: on May 22, 2022, Walt Nauta spent half an hour in the storage closet, then left with a single box.
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The Technical Oddities of the FBI's Exploitation of Hunter Biden's Laptop

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emptywheel
For some reason, the FBI deemed it necessary to buy a new laptop and install the hard drive from the laptop once owned by Hunter Biden before it could image the laptop.
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Hanging by Meta's Threads

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Rayne
You may have heard the buzz about Meta's new microblogging platform, Threads. How will Threads eventually interact with the open source federated universe including Mastodon?
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Serving as Julian Assange's Unwitting Data Mule to Israel Shamir Is Not Journalism

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emptywheel
James Ball describes that the FBI wants him to testify about how he served as an unwitting data mule for Julian Assange, providing State Cables to Israel Shamir.
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Trump's Stolen Documents: Newly Unsealed Numbers

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emptywheel
DOJ only obtained two months of surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago in a year ago -- and other interesting newly unsealed numbers.
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Double Booked: Whistleblower X Described Inappropriate Presidential Interference ... Back in 2019

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emptywheel
Whistleblower X, the IRS agent claiming misconduct in the Hunter Biden investigation, did provide evidence of that Presidential misconduct had killed the case. But that evidence implicates Donald Trump, not Joe Biden.
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Gary Shapley's Goosey Gander: When Investigators Want Treatment They Don't Accord Others

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emptywheel
Purported IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley wants to be treated differently than he treated -- and is still treating -- Hunter Biden.
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Repairing the Faults in this Nation's Foundation

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Rayne
Last year and this year, however, critical faults in the founders’ efforts to create a more perfect union have been revealed, and in a particularly ugly way.
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Dick Biondi Introduced Me To The Music

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Ed Walker
Summer in my mind, Dick Biondi on the radio playing the Beach Boys.
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On Bill Barr and Sex Workers: Whistleblower X Raised Hunter Biden's Baby Momma in Response to a Prostitute Question

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emptywheel
In response to a question about Hunter Biden paying sex workers, one of the purported IRS whistleblowers in the case raised the mother of Hunter Biden's illegitimate daughter.
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I Did Nazi Crustpunk Bar Fail, Redux [UPDATE-1]

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Rayne
Here's a dedicated thread because you people will NOT stop whining about the bird-logoed crustpunk Nazi bar sinking even further below the waterline.
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How Many Podunk Local DAs Ought to Arrogate Themselves Federal Election Police?

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bmaz
For anybody that has read me here, or followed me on Twitter, you know I have maintained from the start that Fani Willis, and her "investigation" is a complete joke. Have also maintained the Trump conspiracy actions in Arizona were as bad…
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Republican House Chairmen Are Resorting to Immunizing Crimes to Gin Up Their Fake Scandals

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emptywheel
Everyone knows that James Comer and Jim Jordan are doing nothing with their gavels but manufacturing fake scandals. So the willingness to bow to their demands that the manufactured scandal around the prosecution of Hunter Biden be immediate and relentless is just willingness to be used, manipulated, to perpetuate the kind of manufactured conspiracy that is designed to kill democracy.
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