As a million outlets have reported, 21 months after Merrick Garland set up a framework that could obtain a for waiver executive privilege for January 6 without violating DOJ contact guidelines, 15 months after all January 6 investigations had converged on Mike Pence, over a year after investigators won precedents that made it possible, yesterday […]
After winning the 2016 election by calling, non-stop, to Lock her up!, Donald J Trump has asked Congress to intervene to end the criminal investigation into his opponent for mishandling classified information.
In a conversation explaining to an undercover FBI Agent why he wanted to share information with Russia, a doctor alleged to have leaked medical records from Fort Bragg claimed that the Biden Administration hates Russia because Obama is was intimidated by Putin.
The logs from searches Jack Teixeira did of government files start two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine … but he asked one of the Discord kids to delete everything from that same month.
Among the questions presented by the alt-right chat rooms from 2016 presented at the Douglass Mackey trial are, what happened to Weev after he boasted of the shitposter influence up until Trump got the nomination.
The case against James Gordon Meek, in which an investigative reporter gets arrested for a crime entirely unrelated to his reporting, raises important questions about the application of Merrick Garland’s media policy.
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.
An open thread on Tucker Carlson’s firing.
Glenn Greenwald teamed up with Tucker Carlson to falsely claim some socialists arrested earlier this week were arrested for their dissident activities rather than their hidden ties to Russian spies.
In a piece reflecting on whether he it was right to publish the Christoper Steele dossier, Ben Smith seems blissfully ignorant of the likelihood that he was an unwitting mule for Russian disinformation.
