We know just two things about the search of Rudy’s phones that has been going on since April. First, if there is evidence of crimes on Rudy’s 16 devices, DOJ will have a way of getting to it. And we would not have anyway of knowing that they had.
One of the guys Ethan Nordean recruited to stand “on the front line” with him on January 6 played a key role in breaching the East side of the building.
The parallel investigations by Congress and DOJ provide a way for Joe Biden to waive Executive Privilege without learning details about DOJ’s investigation.
In the face of Republicans’ unrelenting attack on democracy, expert commentators who support democracy have a choice: They can defend the rule of law and shame those who have denigrated it, or they can spend their time complaining about the guy trying, however imperfectly, to defend it himself. The latter will make Garland less able to do his job, the former will help him do whatever he is willing to do.
The government has more cooperating witnesses in the January 6 investigation than they’ve publicly identified. But it will still take quite some time to learn the fruit of that cooperation.
The story the FBI tells about its investigation into Proud Boy affiliate Lisa Homer (née Boisselle) starts with a Google GeoFence and seems to end in a love story wrapped up inside an insurrection.
In a piece talking about disinformation other than the Steele dossier, Ben Smith seems really sanguine that he can tell political dirty tricks from disinformation.
Since DOJ’s IG revealed that the FBI briefer who attended the first Trump briefing was also part of the Mike Flynn investigative team, Republicans have complained about how badly he was treated. According to the CIA official history, Hillary seems to have been the one treated as a suspect.
Those with a platform would be better off defending the rule of law — selling independents and moderate Republicans on the import of the January 6 investigation — than whining that the investigation is not proceeding quickly enough.
Project Veritas and one of its former staffers can’t seem to agree when they first learned about Ashley Biden’s diary.
