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Did Pam Bondi Bury the Election Day Bomb Threats?

February 14, 2025/9 Comments/in 2024 Election, emptywheel/by emptywheel

With twin efforts taken in recent weeks — the closure of FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and the sidelining of the people at CISA who protected the 2024 election — we may never get an explanation about who called in bomb threats to disrupt election day in November.

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The Lessons of Zero Accountability for a Kash Patel Bureau

December 12, 2024/11 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheel

As we talk about what a politicized FBI run by Kash Patel will look like, it helps to review how the House GOP already helped to politicize the FBI’s work.

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Kash Patel’s Bullets

December 5, 2024/44 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheel

What kind of aspiring J Edgar Hoover can’t even alphabetize his enemies list properly?

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Elon Musk’s Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence

November 1, 2024/65 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel/by emptywheel

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, one of Trump’s most gleeful supporters, has set up a one-stop shop: Joining false claims about the election with networks of fascists who’ll take to the streets.

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Three Ways Jim Jordan and James Comer Made Trump Less Safe

August 20, 2024/25 Comments/in 2020 Election, 2024 Election, Cybersecurity, emptywheel/by emptywheel

Trump has spent years demonizing the Deep State. At Trump’s behest, Jordan and Comer have spent two years attacking the Bureau. But on both Iran’s assassination attempt and this hacking attempt, the Deep State saved his ass.

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Sammy Alito Makes a Great Case Trump Censored Fox News’ Accurate 2020 Election Reporting

June 26, 2024/15 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel/by emptywheel

In his Murthy v. Missouri dissent, Sam Alito said that if the President demands that a media outlet censor true content to publish favored content, that is impermissible censorship. He made a great case that Donald Trump unlawfully dictated Fox News’ coverage during the 2020 transition.

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Hunter Biden Gets a Step Closer to Vindicating Twitter’s Takedown Decision

December 1, 2023/87 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity, Hunter Biden/by emptywheel

On the same day that, in sworn testimony before Congress, Michael Shellenberger claimed “there’s no evidence” that the hard drive Rudy Giuliani shared with the NY Post was manipulated, Vish Burra asserted (laughing) that he would hack Hunter Biden again.

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Hunter Biden[‘s “Laptop”] Goes to SCOTUS: How Judge Doughty Helped China and Iran Attack the US

October 26, 2023/17 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheel

The right wing wants to limit how the FBI can work to keep the United States safe from Iranian and Chinese hacks because they believe conspiracy theories about the “Hunter Biden” “laptop.”

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Hunter Biden Coverage

September 10, 2023/0 Comments/in /by emptywheel

Official Documents July 26, 2023: Plea hearing transcript July 26, 2023: Unofficial diversion agreement Posts September 9, 2023: David Weiss May Have More Bluster than Tactical Leverage August 25, 2023: Right Wing Operatives Say Hunter Biden Shouldn’t Get Same Treatment as Dmitry Firtash August 20, 2023: “Ebb and Flow:” How David Weiss Volunteered for a […]

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How the Government Proved Their Case against John Podesta’s Hacker

April 20, 2023/4 Comments/in 2016 Election, Cybersecurity, emptywheel, Financial Fraud, Mueller Probe/by emptywheel

For years, denialists have said that the Mueller indictment charging twelve GRU hackers in the hack-and-leak of the DNC and other victims might not be proven in court. Here’s how DOJ proved a hack-and-trade case involving one of those twelve.

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50 search results for: Matt taibbi

Did Pam Bondi Bury the Election Day Bomb Threats?

The Lessons of Zero Accountability for a Kash Patel Bureau

Kash Patel’s Bullets

Elon Musk’s Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence

Three Ways Jim Jordan and James Comer Made Trump Less Safe

Sammy Alito Makes a Great Case Trump Censored Fox News’ Accurate 2020 Election Reporting

Hunter Biden Gets a Step Closer to Vindicating Twitter’s Takedown Decision

Hunter Biden[‘s “Laptop”] Goes to SCOTUS: How Judge Doughty Helped China and Iran Attack the US

Hunter Biden Coverage

How the Government Proved Their Case against John Podesta’s Hacker

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