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Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Demands Someone at DOJ Put Ethical Skin in the Game

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emptywheel
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is insisting that Todd Blanche or whoever promised her that DOJ does not continue to snuffle around Dan Richman's stuff say so on the docket, with their appearance noticed.
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Other Nations are Updating their Threat Assessments, Too

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Peterr
Denmark updated their annual threat assessment, and there's a new name on their list of threats and challenges. I'll give you 3 chances to guess who it is. Hint: one Danish academic analyst uses the analogy of a "painful divorce," saying this country is no longer "an eternal, reliable ally."
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Michael Anton and the Secret National Security Strategy

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emptywheel
The report that there's a longer unpublished version of the National Security Strategy that is even worse than the one that got published should focus attention on why Michael Anton left before either got finished.
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DOJ Withheld Proof They Knew Their Assault of LaMonica McIver Was "Bad" before They Charged Her

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emptywheel
DOJ withheld Signal texts showing that before DHS started claiming that LaMonica McIver had assaulted two DHS guys, they had circulated video observing that their own actions look "bad."
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The False Claims Todd Blanche, Robert McBride, and Some Lady Impersonating a US Attorney Tell to Justify a Crime

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Todd Blanche says that Dan Richman has to just lie back and enjoy the FBI's ongoing unlawful searches of his data while they try to prosecute his friend Jim Comey.
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White Man's Burden: Trump Is Failing Six of Ten Metrics on His Own Open Book Test

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emptywheel
The self-imagined competent boys who wrote Trump's National Security Strategy effectively wrote a list of standards they're affirmatively failing to meet.
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The National Security Strategy's Structure and Presumptions

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emptywheel
Trump's National Security Strategy envisions sustaining American power by removing brown people and women from positions of power, sustaining a failed trade war, and dictating what Europe should be.
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Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Asks DOJ for Signs of Life

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emptywheel
Judge Kollar-Kotelly ordered DOJ to stop violating Dan Richman's Fourth Amendment rights. But her order is as interesting for all the squirminess it reveals as the order itself.
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Trump's Terrorists

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emptywheel
Dan Bongino just learned a remarkable lesson: when you follow the facts rather than chase conspiracy theories, you end up discovering that Trump's terrorists are the ones who threaten the American way of life.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
Letitia James had two wins in a day this week, after having her first indictment dismissed last week.
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What's Not Being Said about the Alleged Pipe Bomber

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emptywheel
The arrest affidavit for Brian Cole, now accused of laying the pipe bombs discovered on January 6, includes only purchase records and location information. There's not a single data point between the time Trump announced the January 6 rally on December 19 and Cole's presence on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2021.
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SignalGate: "This Chat's Kinda Dead"

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JD Vance's response to the silence that followed Jeffrey Goldberg's withdrawl from the Houthi Signal chat back in March was to ask where all the cool kids had gone.
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The Hacking Hole Where John Bolton Should Be

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emptywheel
The progression of Iranian efforts to hack and assassinate various Trump One officials looks different when you put all the timelines together.

Asif Merchant Says EDNY Screwed Up Its Intercepts

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emptywheel
Contrary to what the FBI originally suggested in his arrest affidavit, the FBI was tracking Asif Merchant -- the Pakistani man accused of trying to hire a hit squad to target Donald Trump -- from the moment he arrived in the US in April 2024.
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Pete Hegseth and the Radical Queer Wing of Al-Qaeda

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Where Murder Dances With Law A while back, maybe a decade and change ago during the Obama administration, I was drinking with some nerdy friends in a San Francisco hackerspace. We got to talking about National Security law, hacktivism, and…
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The Kafka Story Inside Trump's Godfather Trilogy

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emptywheel
Eleven days after Maurene Comey sued DOJ for wrongful termination, OLC decided that the Merit Systems Protection Board -- and not Article III Courts -- should decide whether Trump has the authority to override civil service protections.
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Four Shots at an Unarmed Boat in Uncontested Waters

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It took the most powerful military in the history of the world four strikes to destroy an unarmed boat in uncontested waters.
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Dan Richman Wants His Data Back

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emptywheel
On top of the known legal problems with a DOJ attempt to reindict Jim Comey, Dan Richman has added a potentially fatal one: He has moved to get his data back, citing all the Fourth Amendment violations they made in using it for the Comey prosecution in the first place.
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