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Judge Kelly's Basis for His "Tools" Determinations

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emptywheel
Judge Tim Kelly's guidelines for admitting written statements of "tools" of the alleged Proud Boy conspiracy.
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How J6C's Obstinance on Transcripts Enabled Dominic Pezzola's Attempt to Sow Conspiracy Theories

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emptywheel
The January 6 Committee's refusal to turn over transcripts to DOJ until December has endangered the Proud Boys case for a second time.
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Active Shooter Event at Michigan State University [FINAL UPDATE—08:50 AM]

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Rayne
Michigan State University's active shooter situation ended about 12:28 a.m local time.
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Trump's National Security Adviser Responded to an Attack on the Capitol by Sending Personal Tweets

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emptywheel
Robert O'Brien claims to remember virtually nothing about what he did on January 6. I'm sure that's among the things that Jack Smith would like to question him about.
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Alex Saab: The Businessman Inside the DEA Informant Inside the Claimed Venezuelan Diplomat Inside the Alleged Putin "Laundry Man"

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emptywheel
In testimony last August, Robert O'Brien suggested that a Colombian extradited on money laundering charges to the US in 2021 is "Vladimir Putin's laundry man."
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Super Bowl LVII

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bmaz
Super Bowl LVII is upon us. Let's rock and roll.
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Some People Have Sex Toys; Trump [Claims He] Has Empty Classified Evening Briefing Folders

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emptywheel
Trump's lawyers told DOJ that the reason people they paid to search Trump's properties found an empty classified folder is because he has an empty classified folder fetish. He does have an empty classified folder fetish. But that cannot explain why it remained in his residence in December, after not being found in August.
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A Book Author, A Religious Leader, and A Pollster Walk into Trump's Classified Document Bar

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emptywheel
The answer to the most pressing Trump document theft story from yesterday -- why did a former White House aide now working for Trump's PAC have classified materials on her laptop -- may answer the most pressing outstanding question from the Special Master review -- who compiled a document with messages from a book author, a religious leader, and a pollster with classified documents?
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Jeff Gerth Declares No There, Where He Never Checked

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emptywheel
CJR's Jeff Gerth series did not, as it claimed, "examin[e] the American media’s coverage of Trump and Russia in granular detail.” On the contrary: Via omission and error CJR created precisely the narrative they claim to critique.
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"Classified Evening Briefing:" Mishandled and Stolen Documents Update

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emptywheel
Updates on the stolen and mishandled documents investigations.
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Roger Stone's Stop the Steal Effort Included as Proof of Milkshake's Obstruction

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emptywheel
In Dan "Milkshake" Scott's statement of offense, Roger Stone is described having as much influence in preparing Milkshake for the attack on the Capitol as Joe Biggs had.
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Maggie Haberman Claims Asking a Witness to Repeat What He Said in Print Is "Most Aggressive" Move Yet

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emptywheel
When a politician resists saying under oath what he has said in a book, as Mike Pence is doing, that is the story -- not some hyped up drama about the very precedented fact that a (former) Vice President got a subpoena.
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DOJ Is Silent that Enrique Tarrio Is a "Friend of Stone"

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emptywheel
In the Proud Boy case, unlike the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, DOJ has made no mention of Enrique Tarrio's ties to Roger Stone.
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On emptywheel's Continued Obsession with Oligarch Real Estate Seizures

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emptywheel
One of the most interesting things about the Vladimir Voronchenko indictment, in which he was charged for conspiring to help Viktor Vekselberg dodge sanctions, is that he was charged alone.
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The Other Albanian Stuff

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Rayne
It seems rather odd that two different stories related to Rudy Giuliani happened to involve Albania given its size.
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Jeff Gerth's Undisclosed Dissemination of Russian Intelligence Product

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emptywheel
Jeff Gerth spends 23,000 words lecturing other journalists they need to be more transparent. But he doesn't reveal that one of the key pieces of evidence in his narrative that Hillary pushed a "conspiracy theory" that "there was a secret alliance" between Trump and Russia was a Russian intelligence product, a product the reliability of which not even spooks managed by John Ratcliffe would authenticate.
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The Blind Spots of CJR's "Russiagate" [sic] Narrative

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emptywheel
Jeff Gerth claimed to assess NYT and WaPo's reporting on the Russian investigation. And they they proceeded to ignore over 20 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories about Russia.
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CJR's Error at Word 18

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emptywheel
In CJR's 23,000 word narrative criticizing reporting on the Russian investigation, Jeff Gerth committed the first of many errors at word 18.
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The 98 Luftballoons

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bmaz
Alrighty then, as TV news is still consumed by the Chinese balloon thing, I need to get a couple of things in. Did the US shoot it down when over Cheney's sparse area of the country? Nope. Nor before that. Let it wander all the way to The Atlantic.…
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