On Joshua Schulte and Julian Assange’s 10 Year Old Charges
The reporting on why Julian Assange won’t be charged in the Vault 7 leaks is missing some detail about what has happened in Joshua Schulte’s case recently.
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Beryl Howell’s Whack-a-Mole Grand Juries
Two months before Beryl Howell upheld her contempt ruling against Andrew Miller because other investigations into Roger Stone remain ongoing, she learned that the investigation pertaining to the Mystery Appellant remains ongoing as well.
On Once and Future Mueller Grand Juries: The Texts Obtained from Andrew Miller Overlap with Roger Stone’s Voter Suppression
The news of a second grand jury focusing on Roger Stone asked for texts between him and Andrew Miller recalls that Mueller was once quite interested in what Stone did with his dark money groups that engaged in voter suppression in 2016.
Trump Claimed To Be Angry Flynn Didn’t Make Good on Putin’s January 21 Requested Phone Call
We now know that Flynn at least claimed that Sergey Kislyak wanted to set up a meeting between Trump and Putin on January 21, 2017. That raises the stakes of a Trump claim that Flynn didn’t tell him Putin called on January 21 significantly.
Mike Flynn Assumed the FBI Agents Interviewing Him Would Be Trump Supporters
One of the newly unsealed passages from Mike Flynn’s 302 makes it clear he assumed FBI Agents would, by default, be partisan Republicans.
Mike Flynn Believed the US Could Work with GRU’s Director
Until his counterpart died in early 2016, Mike Flynn had aspirations of working closely with the man who ran the agency who was planning to help Trump win.
Donald Trump Has a Roger Stone Problem
Roger Stone has had several opportunities to try to address the DNC’s complaint in their lawsuit against him and the Trump campaign. And thus far, he has offered no response.
How to Read the Mueller Report Referrals
The government’s latest filing in the two FOIA suits involving the Mueller Report provide more insight on what the 14 referrals were.
Carter Page Shared “Immaterial Non-Public Information” with Rosneft While “Working” for Trump
In any other era, Republicans would be grateful that the FBI was tracking a guy who admitted sharing immaterial non-public with Rosneft while claiming to work for Trump. In this one, Republicans have decided that Carter Page is a latter day MLK Jr.
BREAKING: Roger Stone Insists Russia Hacked the DNC
After insisting to Judge Amy Berman Jackson that Russia didn’t hack the DNC, Stone lawyers Grant Smith and Robert Buschel are arguing to Judge John Koeltl that Russia did hack the DNC.
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