Entries by emptywheel

Employer Rupert Murdoch Turned Out to Be a More Important Tucker Carlson “Spy” Than the NSA

While it’s not yet clear what specific things Tucker said in the privacy of a Fox News server got him fired, it seems clear that Fox’s review of those statements as part of multiple legal discovery efforts had a more immediate impact on him than the NSA review of his communications with a back channel to Putin.

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Christina Bobb’s Rent-an-Attorney-Client Cut-Out Computer

When the January 6 Committee asked Christina Bobb about the memo calling to seize the voting machines — the metadata of which showed she authored — she claimed she had nothing to do with it. No wonder she was the lawyer asked to certify that a diligent search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents had occurred.

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The Investigation into Jack Teixeira

The arrest affidavit unsealed in the Jack Teixeira case shows that the FBI had definitely IDed him before the NYT revealed his identity yesterday, but they interviewed a key player only after Bellingcat had already reported on how the document moved from server to server.

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