The DOJ IG Footnotes Show FBI Doing What They Do and Russia Doing What They Do
A general review of what the newly declassified DOJ IG footnotes show.
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A general review of what the newly declassified DOJ IG footnotes show.
This post is an overall summary of what the DOJ IG Report on Carter Page says about his targeting. It explains the problems with his applications, but also raises questions policy makers should be asking about whether he should have been targeted.
In response to a request for discovery on FISA from the co-defendant of Rudy’s grifters, DOJ said, “yes, yes, yes, no, psst, Judge, yes.”
Filings by Lev Parnas’ co-defendant, Andrey Kukushkin, suggest FISA may have been used against one or more of the alleged co-conspirators in that case.
emptywheel fact check department has had far better success getting DOJ to fix errors than getting Powell to fix any of hers!
Among the implications of one of the false claims Mike Flynn’s lawyer claimed in a memo designed to blow up his plea agreement is that he engaged in illegal surveillance for his entire career. It’s not true–she should stop accusing her client of such things!
In addition to claiming that Joshua Schulte stole the CIA’s hacking tools and leaked them to WikiLeaks, they also suggest he did something to the CIA server to make it more vulnerable to theft. The government should let his expert review the CIA servers to test his theories.
Given a conspiracy theory hatched by the President’s defense attorney this week, Jay Sekulow must worry that Trump’s “collusion” is visible from space.
Where possible, it matches the dates in the Mueller grand jury to known docket numbers. March 2016: Start date on spreadsheet of communications between Konstantin Kilimnik and Paul Manafort (possible parallel construction, though available portions of chart do not show whether contacts include phone calls). April 26, 2016: Joseph Mifsud tells George Papadopoulos the Russians have Hillary […]
A timeline of the publicly confirmed steps of Mueller’s investigation supports Attorney General Bill Barr’s observation that the investigation into Trump’s associates was “anemic” at the beginning of the investigation.