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Putin’s Other War of Attrition

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Rayne
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s opposition leader and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, died today as a complication of Vladimir Putin’s trumped-up imprisonment.
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David Weiss Is a Direct Witness to the Crimes on Which He Indicted Alexander Smirnov

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emptywheel
With the indictment of Alexander Smirnov, David Weiss has now confessed that he's a witness in the investigation of an attempt to frame Joe Biden, an investigation that claims to be investigating.
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The Gaps in David Weiss' Belated Indictment of Alexander Smirnov

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emptywheel
By indicting Alexander Smirnov before Judge Mark Scarsi reviews discovery requests of Hunter Biden, David Weiss has closed off discovery that would implication him personally, as well as Scott Brady, Bill Barr, and Rudy Giuliani.
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After Kansas City, Who is Next?

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Peterr
I knew yesterday was going to be weird, with the mix of Valentine's Day, Ash Wednesday, and the Chiefs celebration. And then it got worse.
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Where Derek Hines Claims to Have Gotten the Hunter Biden Dick Pics He Sniffed

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emptywheel
Derek Hines claims to have a whole bunch of digital evidence documenting Hunter Biden's addiction in 2018. But some of it will be extremely difficult to introduce at trial.
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Exp[o]rt Reports: When David Weiss Claimed Keith Ablow's Sawdust Was Hunter Biden's Cocaine

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emptywheel
David Weiss appears to have submitted a photo of a photo of sawdust taken by a Keith Ablow client and claimed it is a photo of "apparent cocaine" taken by Hunter Biden. That's going to make the forensic challenges of prosecuting Hunter Biden using the laptop far more difficult.
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Joseph Ziegler['s Filter Documents] Say Derek Hines Is Lying

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emptywheel
Derek Hines insinuates that investigators found drug-related evidence while looking for evidence of tax crimes. Except a filter document released by Joseph Ziegler shows they didn't look for it.
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The Mass Migrations Caused by WWI

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Ed Walker
  The text for the next posts is Chapter 9 of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins Of Totalitarianism, titled "The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man". It’s a short chapter, 37 pages, and can be read as a stand-alone…
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David Weiss Claims to Have Plain Viewed Hunter Biden's Dick Pics for Years

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emptywheel
The way in which David Weiss plans to use data from stolen data against the son of the President is to claim that for FIVE YEARS he was accessing his dick pics based on Plain View access, and then mooted a suppression challenge by getting a last minute warrant.
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How Robert Hur Ghosted Joe Biden's Ghost Writer

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emptywheel
In his 388-page report, Robert Hur doesn't explain one of the most important details about why he invented a nonsense motive for Joe Biden to retain 2 folders of documents pertaining to Afghanistan in his garage: what led him to reach out to Joe Biden's ghost writer and when that happened.
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Rod Rosenstein's Baltimore Club of Men Gunning for the Bidens

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emptywheel
The group of men gunning for Joe Biden and his son -- all of whom have already engaged in questionable games -- have ties to Rod Rosenstein, who still seems to be trying to make it up to Trump for his role in appointing a Special Counsel. 
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Call and Response: Putin Demanded Greater Russia and Trump Agreed

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emptywheel
One day after Putin told Tucker Carlson he invaded Ukraine not because of NATO, but because of his commitment to pursue Greater Russia, Trump promised he'd help Putin pursue Greater Russia.
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Trash Talk: Today's Blowout Game

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Rayne
The score of today's game was mind-blowing. One could reasonably expect last year's champion to do well again this year but holy smokes -- go Ireland! This is an open thread.
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Robert Hur Complained about Biden Notes that Trump Almost Certainly Already Declassified

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emptywheel
Robert Hur licensed himself to rifle through Joe Biden's most personal thoughts by calling Biden's stacks of paper "notebooks" rather than "diaries." He then provided specific details about not just where to find the painful memories of his family struggles. But also one event that Trump has spent years trying to misrepresent. 
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Judge Mark Scarsi Refuses Accommodations That Trump's Judges Have Granted

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emptywheel
Even as Trump's judges provide extensions in his federal cases, Judge Mark Scarsi denied Hunter Biden a three week extension in his Los Angeles tax trial.
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Robert Hur's Box-Checking

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emptywheel
Before Robert Hur confessed that jurors who "are unwilling to read too much into Mr. Biden's brief aside" that Hur quoted out of context would never vote to convict Joe BIden, Hur went to ridiculous lengths trying to make something of a very weak "strongest case for criminal charges."
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Open Thread: Trump v. Anderson before SCOTUS

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Rayne
Feel free to discuss today's Trump v. Anderson oral arguments here but bring all your off-topic discussion to this open thread.
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Michael Bromwich Warns of Robert Hur Report Ahead of Release

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emptywheel
Ahead of the release of the Robert Hur report, Michael Bromwich has raised concerns that Hur is reporting consensual interviews without proper context.
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