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Two People Plead Guilty in Conspiracy to Transport Ashley Biden Diary

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emptywheel
Two people in the case involving Project Veritas' payment for a diary stolen from Ashely Biden pled guilty today.
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The Word "Pardon" Doesn't Appear in the Barr Memo

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emptywheel
Bill Barr stated, three times, that trading pardons for false testimony would be a crime. And then he didn't even address that crime in his memo declining prosecution before Trump went on to pardon three witnesses against him.
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Bill Barr Performed the Corruption He Was Trying To Deny

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emptywheel
Because the analysis in the Barr Memo declining prosecution of Donald Trump was so shoddy, it set off a snowball of further corrupt actions. But you don't have to get beyond the nine page memo to see that Barr was performing precisely the corruption he was trying to deny.
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The Redacted Mar-a-Lago Affidavit DOJ Should Submit

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bmaz
As you may know, DOJ is ordered by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to submit a "suggested" redacted version of the warrant affidavit for the Mar-a-Lago search executed on August 8, 2022. The federal magistrate judge who authorized the warrant…
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The Barr Memo Relied on Covering Up the Ongoing Roger Stone Conspiracy Investigation

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emptywheel
The Barr Memo relied on a claim that the results of the First Volume were conclusive that DOJ couldn't charge any Trump associate with conspiracy. He knew at the time, however, that was a lie.
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Christina Bobb, Custodian of Records and Coup Conspirator

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emptywheel
As part of a ploy to excuse a declaration signed June 8 claiming that Trump had returned all classified documents, he has claimed that Christina Bobb is not his lawyer, but was instead his Custodian of Records. That would make a player in the January 6 coup attempt the custodian of records about that event -- and some of America's most sensitive secrets.
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The Day After Paul Sperry Claimed Trump Had Been Hiding January 6 Documents, DOJ Subpoenaed the Archives Again

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emptywheel
The day after Paul Sperry claimed that Trump had been withholding materials from the Archives with the purpose of keeping such materials out of the hands of the January 6 Committee, Thomas Windom subpoenaed the Archives for more January 6 documents.
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A Roger Stone Pardon for MacronLeaks Isn't As Crazy as It Sounds

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emptywheel
Most reporters are dismissing the possibility that the Executive Grant of Clemency for Roger Stone described in Trump's search warrant receipt could be any but the known Stone commutation or pardons. But it's not out of the question that it pertains to MacronLeaks.
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Mastering Obstruction: Two of Trump's Attorneys May Be Witnesses or Suspects

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emptywheel
Since the time they jointly signed a declaration that falsely claimed there were no more classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, DOJ would be trying to figure out whether Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb are witnesses ... or potential co-conspirators.
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Archives Letter Demonstrates Import of Past Kash Patel Claim of Declassification

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emptywheel
The same day that Evan Corcoran pitched having Trump associates access the materials the FBI was about to seize, Kash Patel claimed they had been declassified.
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Trump's Reneges on Promised Significant Fourth Amendment Filing

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emptywheel
Trump's court filing was more performance art and serial confession. What it was not is the promised significant Fourth Amendment filing he promised.

Next Steps in the Trump Stolen Documents Investigation

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emptywheel
There are four things that would be going on right now in the Trump Espionage Act and obstruction investigation, even beyond any additional investigative steps: filter, scope, and classification reviews, as well as an inventory of what was seized.
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Demands for Sua Sponte Do-Overs and Billy Barr's Thought Experiment about Trump's Criminality

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emptywheel
In a post last year about what was then a still heavily-redacted Amy Berman Jackson opinion ordering DOJ to release a Barr memo covering up the Mueller investigation, I wrote that this might finally be the case where DOJ would be held accountable…
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Maggie Haberman: Heads It's Only Obstruction, Tails It's Not Obstruction

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emptywheel
After years of suggesting that Robert Mueller was only investigating Trump for obstruction, Maggie Haberman now ignores that DOJ has shown probable cause that Trump's ripping, flushing, and hiding of documents was an effort to obstruct investigations.
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The Known and Likely Content of Trump's Search Warrant

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emptywheel
We know much of what is likely to appear in Trump's search warrant affidavit, including Trump's refusal to heed warnings given on June 3.

Which of the Many Investigations Trump Has Obstructed Is DOJ Investigating?

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emptywheel
It seems increasingly likely DOJ is investigating Trump's obstruction of investigations. It's just not clear, yet, which investigations are included in the scope. 

The French President May Be Contained Inside the Roger Stone Clemency

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emptywheel
The conventions used on Trump's warrant receipt suggest the document described as Executive Grant of Clemency re: Roger Stone is not the known commutation and pardon Trump gave his rat-fucker.
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Rule of Law: DOJ Obtained Trump's Privilege-Waived Documents in May

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emptywheel
In August and December 2021 and May of this year, I laid out how subpoenaing the records the January 6 Committee had already gotten Joe Biden to review for privilege was a solution to a tricky constitutional problem with investigating the former President. In May, DOJ did just that.

Women Led The Move To Farming

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Ed Walker
There wasn't an Agricultural Revolution, and farming didn't create the Patriarchy.
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