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December 2018

  1. Hal Martin Manages to Obtain a Better Legal Outcome than Reality Winner, But It Likely Doesn’t Matter
  2. If Trump Is So Concerned that a DOJ Contractor Failed to Archive Texts, Why Not Hold the Contractor Accountable?
  3. Someone Has Already Been Charged for Most of the Actions the Steele Dossier Attributes to Michael Cohen
  4. End Of Year/New Year’s Bad Boy Trash Talk
  5. Mueller Would Not Have Needed a Foreign Intelligence Agency to Geolocate Michael Cohen’s Phone
  6. Tit-for-Tat: What Mike Flynn’s 302 Reveals about the Lies He Told
  7. Merry Christmas to the emptywheel Community
  8. The Ghosts Of Christmas Eves Past
  9. Putin’s Chef, Evgeniy Prigozhin, Says He Needs Discovery So He Can Figure Out if He’s Putin’s Boss or His Chef
  10. We Will Not Get Peace from the People Who Dismember Dissidents Alive
  11. The Significance of the James Wolfe Sentence for Mike Flynn, Leak Investigations, and the Signal Application
  12. The Moving Parts: The Walls Come Down around Trump
  13. Emmet Flood Steps in It Again: William Barr’s Memo Makes Compelling Case that Trump Must Be Impeached
  14. Why It Mattered (and Still Matters) that Flynn Continued to Hide His True Relationship with Turkey
  15. Rob Kelner–the Guy Who Signed Mike Flynn’s FARA Filings–Continued to Be Insubordinate in Yesterday’s Hearing
  16. In Defense of Emmet Sullivan: Van Grack Suggested Mueller Did Review Whether Flynn’s Behavior Amounted to Treason
  17. The Flynn Sentencing: What Comes Next?
  18. Judge Sullivan Was Prepared For Potential Flynn Perjury and Fraud On The Court
  19. The Black Holes in the Mike Flynn 302: The Back Channel Discussion May Be Most Sensitive Investigative Detail
  20. The Dossier Is Not the Measure of the Trump-Russia Conspiracy
  21. Mike Flynn Steps in It: In a Bid to Feed the Frothy Right, He Leads to Release of Damning New Details Showing He Lied to Protect Trump
  22. Mike Flynn’s Flip: You Don’t Need Your Cooperator to Testify If the Conspiracy Was All Conducted over Email
  23. DOJ Unveils Indictment against Mike Flynn’s Business Partner on Eve of His Sentencing
  24. Bumped! Rudy’s Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Strategy
  25. The Geography of Maria Butina’s Cooperation
  26. That Peter Strzok 302 Probably Comes from the Obstruction Case File
  27. Lamb and Sheep Trash Talk
  28. If the Government Obtains the Full Manafort Forfeiture, the Mueller Investigation Will Have Netted Almost $21 Million
  29. Did Jared Kushner Try to Preemptively Undercut Mike Flynn at the Enquirer?
  30. After Replacing FBI Devices Two Times, the Bureau Still Fails to Collect 10% of Agent Text Messages
  31. On Emmet Sullivan’s Order for Mike Flynn’s 302s: Be Careful What You Ask For
  32. Government Requests Harsh New Conditions Governing Joshua Schulte’s Access to Classified Discovery
  33. Mike Flynn Doesn’t Want Drug-Testing to Interrupt His Return to Influence-Peddling
  34. The Moment Of Truth Comes For Cohen And Flynn
  35. It’s Not the Campaign Finance Violation or the Simple Private Transaction, It’s the Conspiracy to Commit Fraud
  36. Information in Amended DNC Lawsuit Reveals that Roger Stone Is at Significantly Greater Risk for CFAA Indictment
  37. Late Trash Is Better Than No Trash At All
  38. The Benefits and Pitfalls of Having Former FEC Commissioner Don McGahn as Your Campaign Lawyer
  39. The Quid Pro Quo Was Even Tighter Than I Imagined
  40. The Manafort Election Season Lying Bonanza Stall
  41. Cohen’s Cooperation Seems to Focus on Obstruction
  42. Trump Boasts of His Imaginary 87-Page Rebuttal Without Noticing Mueller Has Already Released 127 Pages
  43. Michael Cohen and Felix Sater’s Evolving Cooperation against Trump
  44. No, Mike Pence Is Not Going to Be Indicted
  45. Updating the Mueller Docket: What Has Zainab Ahmad Been Working On?
  46. Flynn’s Category C (or B iii) Cooperation: Mueller’s Expanded Investigation
  47. The Mueller Investigation Is the Second Most Important Investigation into Which Flynn Assisted
  48. Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi’s Matryoshka Cover-Up
  49. The Year Long Trump Flunky Effort to Free Julian Assange
  50. The Illogical Core of “Chain Migration” Sponsor and Grifter Jerome Corsi’s Complaint against Robert Mueller
  51. Why Have Roger Stone and Trump Hidden Their Ongoing Joint Defense “Collusion”?
  52. If SSCI Was Referring All This Perjury to Mueller about GRU Funding Trump, Why Did Richard Burr Claim It Had Found No “Collusion”?
  53. The Manafort Lying Cards I’d Show if I Were Playing Presidential Pardon Poker
  54. The Trump Organization Is Not the Sitting President
  55. Government Wouldn’t Unseal Michael Cohen’s Warrants because “Many Uncharged Persons Are Named in the Materials”
  56. Some Important Historical Details Michael Cohen Probably Shared with Mueller’s Team

November 2018

  1. July 22, 2016: The Sater and Cohen Deal Gets Handed Off To Millian and Papadopoulos?
  2. Cohen’s Testimony Implicates Trump and His Spawn
  3. Did Jerome Corsi (or Roger Stone) Get Podesta Emails from Guccifer 2.0?
  4. Trump’s Two Denials Could Provide Reason for Mueller to Demand an Interview
  5. Grab Your Phone and Dial Now: NO on Farr [UPDATE]
  6. Jerome Corsi Prepared the Lies He told Special Counsel
  7. Hillary Clinton Caught Her Stroke from Jerome Corsi
  8. Mueller Just Guaranteed He Can Issue a Public Report
  9. After 14 Years, Conspiracy Artist Jerome Corsi Continues to Successfully Yank the Media’s Chain
  10. Yevgeniy Prigozhin Continues to Troll Both Online and in the Courts
  11. Birds of a Feather: Comparing ‘Sparrows’ Chapman and Butina
  12. Post L-Tryptophan Turkey Hangover Trash
  13. Democracy Against Capitalism: Conclusion of the Conclusion
  14. Is Jerome Corsi Trying to Get Trump to Intervene (Again)?
  15. Pence Plays Statesman While Trump Tweets Angrily from a Florida Retirement Resort
  16. Turkey Bowl Trash Talk 2018
  17. Giving Thanks
  18. Big Dick Toilets and Sasquatch Dolls: Matt Whitaker’s Qualifications To Be Dog-Catcher
  19. It Is Objectively False that Trump Provided Unprecedented Cooperation; Stop Parroting Rudy Claiming He Did
  20. Trump Refuses to Answer Why He Ordered Mike Flynn to Placate the Russians on Sanctions
  21. Leo’s Lane: Balls and Strikes versus Checks and Balances
  22. James Baker Channels a Road Map He and Comey and Andrew McCabe Might Navigate
  23. Mueller Says He Still Exercises the Full Authority of a US Attorney
  24. Time Machine: 2011 to 2012 WikiLeaks Is not 2018 WikiLeaks
  25. After a Year of Page Views for Credulous Reports Trump Wanted to Do Mueller Interview, NYT Gets Page Views Admitting He Won’t
  26. A Day after Maria Butina Argues Influence Operations Shouldn’t Be Charged as Spying, Plea Negotiations Start
  27. Route 66 Trash Talk
  28. The Theory of Prosecution You Love for Julian Assange May Look Different When Applied to Jason Leopold
  29. The Invisible Game of Chicken: The Things the People Claiming to Understand the Manafort Extension Don’t Know (Nor Do I)
  30. On Rick Gates’ Expansive Cooperation
  31. Trump Appointee Dabney Friedrich Continues to Trounce the Trolls’ Hopes of Discrediting Mueller
  32. What OLC Says Happened with Matt Whitaker’s Appointment
  33. First Steps Towards Change
  34. The InfoWars Embed in the CNN First Amendment Lawsuit
  35. WSJ’s Curious Mueller Editorial
  36. Neal Katyal Helps Mueller Write Monday’s Brief
  37. Dear Lindsey: Not Even Trump Gives a Shit What You Think about the Whitaker Appointment
  38. In Defending His Whitaker Pick, Trump Attempts to Placate Both Republicans and Lawyers
  39. The Kremlinology (Ha!) of the Sessions’ Huddle
  40. Did Emmet Flood Mean to Create a Legal Morass, or Is He Off His Game?
  41. Are Mueller and Matt Whitaker Already Battling over Immunity or a Plea Deal for Jerome Corsi?
  42. In Thursday Hearing, Mueller’s Team Gets Specific about What They Can Do without Whitaker’s Pre-Approval
  43. John Kelly’s Legally Fraught Role in the Sessions Ouster
  44. Trump Won’t Hand in His Open Book Test Until He Checks His Answers with Matt Whitaker and Putin
  45. Trump Risks that Every Action Matt Whitaker Takes as Attorney General Can Be Legally Challenged
  46. Matt Whitaker Has Authority to Share Proceedings of National Security Grand Jury Investigations with Trump
  47. Has This Been the Plan Since August 2017?
  48. Matt Whitaker Can’t Prevent Mueller from Unsealing Any Sealed Indictments
  49. Why Are We Still Talking about Randy Credico?
  50. Mid-Terms: We’re All Out of Bubblegum
  51. Mid-Terms: Planning is Everything
  52. What the Watergate Road Map Might Say about a Mueller Road Map
  53. Democracy Against Capitalism: Conclusion Part 3
  54. A Roadmap to the Nixon and/or Mueller Roadmap
  55. Trash Talk A Geaux Geaux
  56. US Government Reveals It Has Video Evidence of Joshua Schulte Sharing Classified Information as Ecuador Restricts Assange’s Legal Visits
  57. Confirmed: Listening to Whistleblower John Reidy Could Have Saved the Lives of Numerous CIA Assets
  58. Stone v NYT: The Treachery of Dueling Incomplete Stories
  59. Could Roger Stone Be Charged in a CFAA Conspiracy?

October 2018

  1. No, Mueller Probably Didn’t Subpoena Trump, Yet
  2. Why Did Rebekah Mercer and Steve Bannon Start Preparing an Accusation that Hillary Had Corrupt Ties with Russia Starting on March 14, 2016?
  3. The Purpose of a Mueller Report: for Referral to Congress If He Gets Fired
  4. Judicial Watch’s Eighteen Month Soros Conspiracy Theory
  5. Trump Refuses to Keep This Country Safe from Terrorism
  6. Democracy Against Capitalism: Conclusion Part 2
  7. When Insisting on the Letter of the Law Counts Amounts to Being “Hyper-Technical”
  8. Mueller Had Learned by February 22 that Roger Stone Was Pushing an Assange Pardon in January
  9. Maria Butina’s Legal Team Embraces Disinformation (with Help from Russia)
  10. Who Is Paying Kevin Downing’s Bills to Serve as Trump’s Mole?
  11. The Universe of Hacked and Leaked Emails from 2016: Podesta Emails
  12. Detour: Roger Stone’s Epically Shitty Explanation for His Podesta Tweet
  13. Democracy Against Capitalism: Conclusion Part 1
  14. On the Roger Stone Investigation: Talking to Guccifer 2.0 or WikiLeaks Is Not a Crime
  15. The Universe of Hacked and Leaked Emails from 2016: DNC Emails
  16. Talking Heads Trash Talk
  17. Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Paid Trolls Prove His Legal Challenge to His Indictment To Be False
  18. Going To Cut Khashoggi Into Little Pieces
  19. In What May Be a Second Bid to Go after Yevgeniy Prigozhin and Vladimir Putin, DOJ Charges Prigozhin’s Troll Accountant
  20. PSA: Don’t Misunderstand the Function of a Mueller Report
  21. Who Told Carter Page that James Wolfe Was the Source of the FISA Leak?
  22. On Corey Lewandowski’s Big Legal Bills and Mueller’s Deadline from Rosenstein
  23. Rattled: China’s Hardware Hack – PRC’s Response
  24. Still Rattled: Fallout and Pushback
  25. The First Amendment Wall-Splat that Anticipates Any Defense of a Trump Conspiracy or WikiLeaks Charge
  26. Guccifer 2.0 Cleaned Up His “Collusion” Three Months after the Fact
  27. Homeland Security Chair Ron Johnson Thinks It Scandalous that Lawyer of Hacking Victim Talks to FBI about Hack
  28. Mid October Trash Talk
  29. That Ongoing Grand Jury Investigation that Michael Cohen’s Loot Is Feeding
  30. The Reply Button
  31. Democracy Against Capitalism: Index To Posts
  32. Trump’s Open Book Test Still Poses a Big Perjury Risk
  33. Mueller Juggles Plea Agreement Housekeeping
  34. Offering John Podesta Emails While Selling Deleted Hillary Emails
  35. Before Trump Did Nothing When Mohammed bin Salman Went After Jamal Khashoggi, He Did Nothing When MBS Went After Alwaleed bin Talal
  36. The Psy-Group Proposal: A Way to Measure the Value that Russian Hackers Provided the Trump Campaign
  37. Alfa-Trump Redux: Full Spectrum Circumstance
  38. Three Things: Can’t Keep Quiet
  39. Rattled: China’s Hardware Hack – SMCI’s Response
  40. Rattled: China’s Hardware Hack – Amazon’s Response
  41. Rattled: China’s Hardware Hack – Apple’s Response
  42. Rattled: China’s Hardware Hack
  43. Peter Smith Had a Penchant for Secrecy, But Whence Might Be More Interesting Than How
  44. Democracy Against Capitalism: Liberalism
  45. Brave For Speaking Out: Dr. Ford Trash Admiration Talk
  46. Kavanaugh Confirmation Standards of Nonsense
  47. A Tale of Two GRU Indictments
  48. Three Things: Russia and China Spying, Kavanope
  49. In Dismissing Ricin Charge Against White Supremacist, Judge Throws Enforcement of Bioterrorism Law into Chaos
  50. Three URGENT Things: POTUS’ Alert Text, Facebonked, Kavanuh-uh
  51. Mueller’s Inquiry Expands and Contracts: The Rat-Fucking Is More Interesting than the Manafort Plea
  52. Food for Thought
  53. In the Most Cowardly Possible Decision, Ninth Circuit Upholds Gartenlaub Conviction
  54. One Question: Why Kavanaugh?
  55. Rachel Mitchell Is Not Very Good at Propaganda

September 2018

  1. Kavanaugh’s Tell: “Revenge on Behalf of the Clintons,” Plural
  2. The DNC-Centric Focus of the HPSCI Investigation
  3. Jeff Flake’s “Investigation” Is A Predicable Trumpian Sham
  4. The End Of The Airplane Trash Talk
  5. On Squi and the 65-Lady Letter
  6. The Record Supports Christine Blasey Ford
  7. Kavanaugh Hearing: The Aftermath
  8. Contra Kavanaugh, Redux
  9. The Christie Ouster and the Flynn Hiring
  10. The Two Legitimacy Problems with the Nghia Pho Sentence
  11. Can Senator Feinstein Block The Appointment of Rachel Mitchell?
  12. Three Things: CRC—What? An Indictment, Plus Shut Downs Ahead
  13. Democracy Against Capitalism: Democracy
  14. Brett Kavanaugh: “It Depends on What the Meaning of the Phrase ‘Sexual Assault’ Is”
  15. On Rosenstein, We Shall See …
  16. Not All Influencers Are Celebrities on YouTube
  17. Brett Kavanaugh Just Provided Compelling Evidence He Received Sexually Explicit Emails from Alex Kozinski
  18. Trash Talk: Possession is 9/10ths of the Law
  19. On KT McFarland’s Belated Unforgetting of the Truth
  20. Rob Goldstone Continues to Work the Press to Spin His Role in the June 9 Meeting
  21. The Shiny Object of the May 2017 Russian Investigation: The Evidence Mostly Came in after August 1
  22. The NYT “Scoop” Appears To Be an Effort to Spin Opening an Investigation into Trump as an Erratic Act
  23. NYT Gives Trump His Excuse to Fire Rod Rosenstein
  24. Brett Kavanaugh’s Character Witnesses: Ken Starr, Bill Shine, and Donald Trump
  25. The Assange Exfiltration Would Have Taken Place in the Wake of Joshua Schulte Tor Activity
  26. The Committee Playing Games with Perjury Referrals Swears They Can Make Mark Judge Tell the Truth without Testifying
  27. In Putin’s Russia, Trolls Fool Even You
  28. In media res: the FBI’s WannaCry Attribution
  29. Donald Trump’s Bubble May Be Robert Mueller’s Greatest Weapon
  30. Trump Wants Voters — and Russia — to Know What the Russia Investigation Looked Like on August 1, 2017, not September 14, 2018
  31. Father Doesn’t Know Best: Kavanaugh and Women’s Unshared Traumas
  32. Have Mark Judge Testify Along with Christine Blasey Ford (and Kavanaugh)
  33. Manafort Turns State’s Evidence: “It’s Time for Some Game Theory”
  34. Paul Manafort’s Modus Operandi: Accuse the Female Politician of Crimes She Didn’t Commit, Then Dodge Sanctions
  35. Manafort Plea Agreement Weekend Trash Talk
  36. A Comparison of Rick Gates and Paul Manafort’s Plea Deals
  37. The Objection that Made Mueller’s Case
  38. Checkmate: The Manafort Cooperation Is Pardon Proof
  39. Paul Manafort’s $46 Million Plea Deal
  40. What Paulson, Bernanke, Geithner and Neil Irwin Don’t Get
  41. The EDVA Holdout Juror Has (Thus Far) Saved Paul Manafort $16 Million
  42. Paul Manafort Is One of 37 People in an Omertà with the President
  43. The $30 Million Leverage Mueller Has to Force Paul Manafort’s Cooperation
  44. Richard Burr Pretends He Has a Basis to Claim SSCI Has [Searched for and] Not Found Any Evidence of “Collusion”
  45. The Other Thing Kavanaugh and Trump Share: Hidden Money Stories
  46. The Frothy Right Is Furious that Peter Strzok Pursued the Guy Leaking about Carter Page
  47. Is a Tie with Vladimir Putin What Makes Mariia Butina More of a Spy than Paul Manafort?
  48. Brett Kavanaugh Thinks Using Stolen Emails Is Acceptable Behavior
  49. Trash Talk Returns From The Dead
  50. Just before Mike Flynn Was Interviewed by the FBI, Putin Increased His Participation in the National Prayer Breakfast
  51. Whip It, Whip It Good: Krunchtime on Kavanaugh
  52. The Government and Manafort Continue to Argue about the Agency of Being an Agent
  53. Brett Kavanaugh Called John Yoo His “Magic Bullet”
  54. Open Thread: Take the Ride
  55. Roger Stone’s Excuse for His “Podesta Time in a Barrel” Comment Is Even Stupider Given the Paul Manafort Prosecution
  56. Brett Kavanaugh Was In the Loop on (Broader) Precursor to John Yoo’s Stellar Wind Memos
  57. Bill Clinton Did Not Win an Election By Getting a Blowjob: The Danger of Lindsey Graham’s Willful Ignorance about Russian Interference
  58. Mueller Ready to Get Trump on the Record on His Involvement in the Russian Conspiracy
  59. Would Rod Rosenstein Object to a Mueller Action before Brett Kavanaugh Is Confirmed?
  60. Spy versus Spy: The Two Alleged Agents of Foreign Powers Sitting in the Alexandria Jail, Part Two (Mariia)
  61. Contra Kavanaugh
  62. Democracy Against Capitalism: Markets
  63. Those Sexy Details in the Papadopoulos Sentencing Memo Aren’t Intended for Your Consumption
  64. “Young George” Papadopoulos Wants “Mercy and Compassion” (from Trump) for Something He Believes Is Treason

August 2018

  1. Among Other Things, Sam Patten Plea Signals that Mueller Referrals Will Include False Congressional Testimony
  2. Frothy Republicans Confuse Oleg Deripaska and Donald Trump
  3. Spy Versus Spy: The Two Alleged Agents of Foreign Powers Sitting in the Alexandria Jail, Part One (Paulie)
  4. Don McGahn’s Bullshit Report Covering Up the Flynn Firing
  5. If Mueller Shows Trump and Stone Cheated to Win the Primary, Will Republicans Turn on Trump?
  6. The Trump Team Strategic Errors: Rockets Instead Bursting In Air
  7. The Mueller Investigation: What Happens on September 7?
  8. Andy McCarthy’s Misconception
  9. On Use Immunity, Predictions of Doom for the Presidency, and the Voluntary Waiver of Privilege on the Hush Payment Tape
  10. The Trump Team’s Strategic Errors: Special Master Edition
  11. Oddly-Timed Story: White House Counsel McGahn’s Call to FCC’s Ajit Pai
  12. Trump’s Pecker and His Rat-Fucker’s “Pervy Ted”
  13. Reality Gets A Harsh Sentence
  14. The Problems with Richard Burr’s Claim that SSCI Has No Evidence of Collusion
  15. What Does the ‘Doomsday Investor’ Get out of Trump?
  16. Cohen May Be Shopping a Cooperation Agreement; It’s Not Clear Anyone Is Buying
  17. Trump’s Pecker Got Him in Legal Trouble Before Conspiring with Russia Did
  18. It Is False to Claim There Was No Follow-Up to the June 9 Meeting
  19. Roger Stone Threatens to Sue emptywheel!
  20. Democracy Against Capitalism: Notes on Class
  21. Should Trump Run: Don McGahn Has Been Covering for Roger Stone’s Pro-Trump Rat-Fucking for Seven Years
  22. Why Would Don McGahn (and His Lawyer) Cooperate in a Piece Claiming He Cooperated with Mueller (on Obstruction)?
  23. The NYT’s Latest McGahnObstructAPalooza: Sometimes “Cooperation” Is Just Cover Your Ass
  24. Sometimes a Plea Is Just a Plea: The Ongoing Criminal Exposure of Mueller’s “Cooperating” Witnesses
  25. Government Claims George Papadopoulos Helped Joseph Mifsud Get Away
  26. The Epistemology of Security Clearance Dick-Waving
  27. Andrew Miller’s Five Month Stall Leads to a Six Month Investigation of Roger Stone
  28. If You Have Rick Gates (and Omarosa) You Don’t Need George Papadopoulos
  29. Democracy Against Capitalism: Class
  30. There Are Still Mueller Prosecutors Whose Work We’ve Barely Seen
  31. What Roger Stone’s Latest Lies Tell Us about Mueller’s Investigation into Him
  32. The Dossier as Disinformation: Why It Would Matter
  33. Mirror Mikey on the Wall
  34. Like a Rat-Fucking Stone: Russians and Roger Reading from the Same Voter Suppression Script
  35. The Sealed Sidebar: Kevin Downing’s Attempt to Share Information on the Case in Chief Fails
  36. Oleg Deripaska Probably Fed Both Parties Dirt in 2016 Election
  37. Goldstone’s Bare Facts: Attorney, Damaging Information, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Useful to the Trumps
  38. August 2016: When Paulie’s Panic Set In
  39. Trump Tweets a Confession, Then Sekulow Admits His Client Has Been Lying about His Involvement
  40. On the Apparent Complexities of Charging Roger Stone
  41. About That Styx Thing, A Re-Thinking
  42. The Russian NRA Spy: “Just Remember that It’s a Grand Illusion”
  43. GRU’s Alice Donovan Persona Warned of a WannaCry-Like Event a Year before It Happened
  44. Lawfare’s Theory of L’Affaire Russe Misses the Kompromat for the Pee Glee
  45. How ABC Broke a Story about Mueller LIMITING Questions on Obstruction and Claimed It Showed a Focus on Obstruction

July 2018

  1. The Non-EDVA Manafort Thread: Paulie Continues to Work for His Pardon
  2. Without Integrity: The Debunking of the Metadata Debunkers
  3. Did GRU Learn that Democrats Had Hired Christopher Steele When They Hacked DNC’s Email Server?
  4. Devin Nunes’ Promise of Shock!! Shock!! in the Evolving Steele Claims in the Fourth Carter Page FISA Application
  5. White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege In A Racially Divided America By Margaret Hagerman
  6. A Warning about Hype Surrounding the Manafort Tax Evasion Trial
  7. The MalwareTech Case Resets to Zero: A Dialogue Wherein the Government Repeats “YouTube” Over and Over
  8. The Info Ops Unit at GRU, Not the Technical Hacking Unit, Hacked the State Boards of Election Servers
  9. The Worm Turns: Neither Devin Nunes Nor Ron DeSantis (Thus Far) Support Jim Jordan’s Impeachment Bid
  10. BREAKING! NYT Discovers Tweets They Discovered 3 Months Ago
  11. Journalist Records from the “Last Five Years”
  12. Twenty Comey Questions Do Not Eliminate Trump’s Obstruction Exposure
  13. Denial and Deception: Did Trump Really Hire and Fire the Suspected Russian Assets on His Campaign?
  14. Democracy Against Capitalism: Neoliberalism
  15. Get Carter, Redux
  16. Keith Gartenlaub Wonders Why He Can’t Get the Carter Page Treatment
  17. Christopher Steele Probably Saved Carter Page from Prosecution
  18. Democracy Against Capitalism: Base, Superstructure and More Definitions
  19. Three Things: Still Active Measures
  20. Radical Socialism or Clear-Eyed Realism?
  21. The Government May Keep Paul Manafort’s iPods (in Part) Because of the June 9 Emails
  22. And/Or: An Ominous Sign for WikiLeaks in the Joshua Schulte Indictment
  23. How to Charge Americans in Conspiracies with Russian Spies?
  24. How Russian Spies Cultivated the NRA and National Prayer Breakfast to Seek Republican Assets
  25. At Helsinki Summit, Putin Re-enacts the June 9 Trump Tower Meeting
  26. Dragons Caught in the Crossfire: On the Genealogy of the Current and Future Mueller Investigation
  27. Hybrid or Ambiguous, Asymmetric Warfare is Here to Stay
  28. As the Summit Arrives, Keep in Mind that Putin Manages Trump with Carrots and Sticks
  29. Yesterday, Roger Stone Answered, then Backtracked, on a Question Mueller Has Already Posed to Trump
  30. The Russian Hack
  31. Today Is Robert Mueller’s Merrick Garland Day
  32. Legal Ethics in Trumplandia
  33. Judge Ellis Compares Paul Manafort to Domestic and Foreign Terrorists and Spies and Traitors in Pulling his VIP Privileges
  34. Peter Strzok Is a Sideshow to Information that Directly Implicates the President
  35. The Text about Flynn Wasn’t the Substantial Role in the Russian Attack — It Just Linked the Grand Bargain to It
  36. The President’s Lawyer Had Better Review His Conspiracy Theory
  37. It’s Called a Spine, not a Conscience
  38. Three Things: Call, Call, Call!
  39. Trump Is Willing to Pay for Joint Defense for Hope Hicks, But Not for France
  40. The State of Trump’s Anti-Mueller Strategy
  41. Some Issues of Timing Revealed by Manafort’s Filings
  42. Putin Just Set Up Trump To Be Humiliated by the Most Loathed Man in the World
  43. Democracy Against Capitalism: Capital In A Fiat Money World
  44. The Tea Leaves on Mueller’s Hand Off
  45. Happy Fourth of July: Remembering the Why
  46. There Are No Heroes in This Story
  47. Putting a Face (Mine) to the Risks Posed by GOP Games on Mueller Investigation
  48. For Family and Country: The Questions Michael Cohen Won’t (Yet) Answer

June 2018

  1. On My Continuing Obsession with Paul Manafort’s iPod Habit
  2. Democracy Against Capitalism: The Separation Of Politics and Economics
  3. Peter Strzok’s Out of Scope Polygraph
  4. NSA — Continually Violating FISA Since 2004
  5. Paul Manafort’s Four Oligarch Search Warrant
  6. Kennedy
  7. In Trumpian Fashion, Paul Manafort Wins by Losing on Challenge to Mueller
  8. Devin Nunes Confirms Classified Information that “Henry Greenberg” Wasn’t Working for the FBI, and Other Tales of the Half-Wit Running our Intelligence Oversight
  9. Ike Kaveladze’s Missing Suit
  10. John Solomon’s Baby Assange
  11. Yevgeniy Prigozhin Doubles Down on Lawfare as Intelligence Collection
  12. Roger Stone and ConFraudUs
  13. Mueller Frees Up the Troll Team
  14. Angry Mom: Hey Attention Deficit Media, Catch a Clue!
  15. Angry Mom: Hiding the Trumpian Genocide’s Records
  16. What Seems to be Going on with MalwareTech’s New Charges
  17. Angry Mom: I See Dead Children
  18. Two Days after Julian Assange Threatened Don Jr, Accused Vault 7 Leaker Joshua Schulte Took to Tor
  19. Two Details about DOJ IG’s Leak Investigations, Plural, Including the One into Rudy Giuliani’s Sources
  20. Why Was George Papadopoulos Bitching about the UK While Working on His Presentencing Report?
  21. His Girl Friday, But At The New York Times
  22. Name the Social Media Author: Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Or Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz?
  23. The Trump People Really Really Want to Know How Much Mueller Knows about Roger Stone’s “Collusion”
  24. Who Taught Trump about Weaponized Migration?
  25. The Most Irresponsible Thing Michael Horowitz Has Done as DOJ IG
  26. In Attempt to Learn How Much Mueller Knows about Roger Stone’s “Collusion,” Devin Nunes Blames FBI for Stone and Michael Caputo’s Perjury to HPSCI
  27. Rat-Fucker Extraordinaire Roger Stone Probably Had Far More Damning Texts Seized by FBI on March 9
  28. By January, Trump Believed Manafort Could Flip on Him; Since Then, Trump Learned Mueller Wanted to Know about Manafort’s Requests to Russia for Help
  29. The IG Report (and Public Evidence) Shows that Peter Strzok Lost the Argument to Investigate Aggressively
  30. After Judge Kimba Wood Rules Any Privilege Fight Would Have to Be Public, Cohen or Trump Withdraw Three Claims of Privilege
  31. Manafort and His Co-Conspirators Adopt the Communications Habits of David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell
  32. Paulie Goes to Prison*
  33. Democracy Against Capitalism: Competing Stories About Wages
  34. Light Cycles
  35. Shorter Yevgeniy Prigozhin: Don’t Send the PII We Already Stole — Just Send the Intelligence
  36. James Wolfe: The Distinction Between FBI’s Investigation of Leaking Classified versus Non-Public Information
  37. Ty Cobb’s Claim about White House Counsel Recusal Can Only Be Narrowly True
  38. The Decline and Recent Fall of Manafort’s Hapsburg Empire
  39. Mueller to Yevgeniy Prigozhin: Sure You Can Have Discovery … If You Come to the United States to Get It
  40. The Crimes with which NSD Envisions Charging Those Attacking Elections
  41. The New Cyber Sanctions
  42. Revisiting Trump’s Joint Defense Agreement
  43. “I Mean His Trump Organization Employees”
  44. Democracy Against Capitalism: Introduction to New Series
  45. On the Eve of the June 9 Trump Tower Meeting Anniversary, Putin Tells Trump to Keep His Campaign Promises
  46. On the Tactics of the Latest Manafort Indictment
  47. Some Possibilities on the Emails Hope Hicks Wanted to Withhold
  48. Google at Temple: Did DOJ Follow Its New Guidelines on Institutional Gags?
  49. On the James Wolfe Indictment: Don’t Forget Carter Page
  50. DOJ’s Minor Desperation with MalwareTech
  51. The Smoking Craters Where Trump Deal Brokers Used to Be
  52. To Pre-empt an Ass-Handing, the Government Lards on Problematic New Charges against MalwareTech
  53. Manafort Renewed His Outreach to FBC Group after Mueller’s Early April Revelations
  54. The Cat Moves onto Pounce on its Paul Manafort Cat Toy
  55. The 58 Second Gap: Did Emin Agalarov Tell Rob Goldstone Putin Talked to His Father about the June 9 Meeting?
  56. Waiting
  57. The Documents the White House Turned Over
  58. The Giant Holes in Trump’s Mike Flynn Story Point to “Collusion,” Not Obstruction
  59. The Evasion in Trump’s Response on the June 9 Meeting Statement: Did Putin Dictate the Statement?
  60. What Got Added to Sekulow’s List: Further Obstruction (Including Consideration of Firing Mueller), and “Collusion”
  61. The NY Times, Sekulow and Dowd’s Sophistry and Trump’s King Like Viewpoint
  62. How the Mueller Team Thinks of ConFraudUs
  63. Rudy 9/11’s Latest Outrageous Attempts to Obstruct the Mueller Probe

May 2018

  1. The Government Refuses to Name FBI Agent Accused of Deceit in MalwareTech Case
  2. On Those Five AT&T Phones Manafort Wanted To Learn About
  3. The Mouse That Roared, The Bigotry Roseanne Perpetrated and Ignorant Racism Of Trump
  4. Three Data Points on George Papadopoulos
  5. Paul Manafort Wasn’t the “Campaign Boss” (Yet) during the June 9 Meeting
  6. The Same Day Aras Agalarov Was Talking about Restoring Communication with Trump, Jared Kushner Pitched a Back Channel
  7. Why Was Paul Manafort Fired?
  8. The Psy-Group Presentation Suggests Online Trolls Swung Richard Burr’s State of North Carolina
  9. The White House Hid Paul Manafort’s Enthusiasm for the June 9 Meeting When Leaking Don Jr’s Email
  10. On Credico and Stone and Hillary’s Purported Libya Email
  11. Did the FBI Have a Chance to Fix Their Lies about Encryption in 2016?
  12. A Thinking Person’s Guide to the Stefan Halper Conspiracy Theory
  13. George Papadopoulos Was Trying to Hide Evidence He Thought Might Amount to Treason When He Lied to the FBI
  14. The Flynn Conspiracy Call Is Coming from Inside the [White] House
  15. Nunes Outraged that [American] Spies Paid to Brush Up against Trump Aides
  16. Does Devin Nunes’ Unmasking Pseudo-Scandal Betray Knowledge of the “Collusion” with the Saudis and Emirates?
  17. The He Said, She Said That May Render MalwareTech’s Arresting Agents Useless on the Stand at Trial
  18. Re: The Bogus Manafort Challenge To Mueller’s Jurisdiction
  19. The Frothing Right Prefers Oleg Deripaska as an FBI Asset to Christopher Steele
  20. Concord Consulting Aims to Make Russian Bots Legal
  21. I Con the Record Transparency Bingo Part One: Consider the Full Surveillance Playing Hand
  22. The Credulous Right’s Latest Dribbling Water Pistol
  23. Kashyap Patel Had Better Not Rely on the Bill Duhnke Precedent
  24. Stefan Halper Wasn’t Downstream from the Steele Dossier
  25. The Oligarch “Peace” of the Pie Plan
  26. Gina Haspel Destroyed the Tapes in 2005 to Hide What She Destroyed in 2002
  27. The Sekulow Questions, Part Six: Trump Exacerbates His Woes
  28. Marxian Tools and Conservative Caterpillars
  29. Greenberg Traurig Fires Rudy on the One Year Anniversary of the Comey Firing
  30. Gina Haspel Seems to Admit Knowing Jane Harman Opposed Torture Tape Destruction — Just Not Caring
  31. Did Trump Modify PPD-28 Last Year before Retaining It?
  32. The FBI Has No Idea What Time MalwareTech Waived Miranda
  33. Ron Wyden Makes It Clear Gina Haspel Pushed for Torture to Continue in 2005
  34. Gina Haspel’s Fluid Moral Compass
  35. The Gaping Holes in the SSCI Voting Security Report: Vendors and Mitch McConnell
  36. Roger Stone, Rick Gates, and Michael Caputo Met Right Around DNC/Podesta Hack
  37. With the Upcoming Concord Consulting Not Guilty Plea, Russians Continue to Win the Lawfare Hockey Title
  38. The Sekulow Questions, Part Five: Attempting a Cover-Up by Firing Comey
  39. Did Mueller’s Team Decide They No Longer Need Manafort to Flip?
  40. On the TS Ellis Show and the Lies about Lying
  41. Mueller Homing in on Trump’s Inauguration Graft
  42. The Quest: Trump Learns of the Investigation (Part Four)
  43. Contrary to Reports, We Cannot Say FISC Rejected a Record Number of FISA Applications Last Year
  44. What Happened To The Cultural Elites: Conclusion
  45. Trump Repeats the “Tapp” Story Line from Season One
  46. The Quo: Policy and Real Estate Payoffs to Russia (Part Three)
  47. The Quid Pro Quo: a Putin Meeting and Election Assistance, in Exchange for Sanctions Relief (Part Two in a Series)
  48. The Mueller Questions Map Out Cultivation, a Quid Pro Quo, and a Cover-Up (Part One, Cultivation)
  49. After Reiterating Orin Kerr’s Arguments, MalwareTech Asks for the Indictment to be Dismissed with Prejudice
  50. Paul Manafort’s iPod (and Other Apple Product) Habit Rivals His Antique Rug Habit
  51. “Just Obstruction” Is the New “Red Line”
  52. Mueller Offers Trump an Open Book Test — Trump Should Refuse

April 2018

  1. It is Bitter Tea That Involves You So: A Sermon on Hope
  2. On Manafort’s Referral of the Papadopoulos Offer(s)
  3. The Context of Veselnitskaya’s “Informant” Comment
  4. Was Trump’s Birthday Present a Painting? Or Stolen Emails?
  5. Baku, Belichick and the NFL Draft
  6. The Holes in Ike Kaveladze’s Trump Tower Meeting Story
  7. The Hole in the HPSCI Exoneration: Trump’s Hiring of Mike Flynn
  8. In 2017, the Government Withdrew Three FISA Collection Requests Rather than Face an Amicus Review
  9. The FISA Court Accepted 9% Fewer Combined Applications Last Year
  10. What Happened To The Cultural Elites: I Just Work Here
  11. Mueller’s Entirely Redacted Three Bullets and a Theory of the Case
  12. Continuance in MalwareTech’s Case
  13. Counterintelligence versus Criminal: George Papadopoulos
  14. What Happened To The Cultural Elites: Entertainment Workers
  15. National School Walkout and LEO on Alert: Coincidence?
  16. On the Comey Memos
  17. The Andrew McCabe Referral Is Unsurprising — and Probably Justified
  18. The Fire Rosenstein Squad among Trump’s Buddies
  19. The Trump Organization Really Doesn’t Want FBI to Have the Michael Cohen Files
  20. It’s Not Hannity’s Pee Tape that Matters
  21. SDNY Will Be Forced to Talk about Crimes Involving the President Today
  22. SDNY Doesn’t Think Michael Cohen Is Much of a Lawyer
  23. Earlier in the Week, Trump May Have Looked Presidential; on Friday, He Looked Like a Criminal Suspect
  24. Michael Cohen’s Claim the Steele Dossier Is False Is Not Affirmed in His Lawyer’s Declaration
  25. How Yevgeniy Nikulin Might Play into the Mueller Investigation
  26. Patrick Fitzgerald Rebuts Judy Miller in Statement on Libby Pardon
  27. The Libby Pardon: Trump’s Object Lesson in Presidential Firewalls
  28. Mueller Will Label Dangling Pardons as Obstruction of Justice Just as He Drops More Conspiracy Charges
  29. The Access Hollywood Search Doesn’t Mean Trump Coordinated with Assange
  30. Open Thread: Oddments Olio
  31. Bannon Aims to Best Jared Kushner’s Biggest Mistake in Modern Political History
  32. Manafort Wants DOJ to Return Some of the Information Seized in His [Condo*] Search
  33. Facebook, Hot Seat, Day Two — House Energy & Commerce Committee Hearing
  34. Yet More Proof Facebook’s Surveillance Capitalism Is Good at Surveilling — Even Russian Hackers
  35. Facebook on the Hot Seat Before Senate Judiciary Committee
  36. Why Are Republicans Still Squealing about FISA Applications If HPSCI Report Cedes Carter Page Concerns?
  37. Michael Cohen’s Stormy Weather: Four Observations
  38. The Day The Music Died In F1
  39. What Happened To The Cultural Elites: The Capitalist Celebration
  40. What Did Wikileaks Do with the DCCC Emails It Monopolized?
  41. In Addition to Mueller, Six People Are Prosecuting Paul Manafort … and Trump Has No Appropriate Defense Attorney
  42. Is Manafort Getting Close to Crying “Uncle”?
  43. Mueller Tells Guy Who Legally Can’t Be a Target That He’s Not a Target, Perhaps in a Bid to Make Him Legally Targetable
  44. About the Oleg Deripaska Reference in the Mueller Memo
  45. There Are Almost Certainly Other DAG Rosenstein Memos
  46. The Mueller Filing
  47. Alex Van Der Zwaan: “Gone Native”
  48. The MalwareTech Poker Hand: Calling DOJ’s Bluff
  49. Did Ecuador Gag Julian Assange for Interference in Spain AND the US?
  50. Parkland and the Twittered Revolt

March 2018

  1. Michael Flynn’s “Revolution”
  2. What Happened To The Cultural Elites: Changes in the Conditions of Production
  3. Mueller Prepares to Reveal the First Cards in the Hack-and-Leak Conspiracy
  4. Wilbur Ross Lets His Inner Trumpian George Wallace Bigot Freak Flag Fly
  5. Does NSC Consider the Skripal Assassination Attempt to Be Election Related?
  6. Stormy Weather Ahead
  7. The New Bezzle
  8. The Papadopoulos Interfax Interview and Another Syria Data Point
  9. Down Under F1 Trash Talk
  10. John Bolton Will Get to Start His Iran War Because Nine Iranians Stole Academic Dissertations
  11. The Daily Beast Guccifer Scoop and Those GRU Officers Sanctioned Last Week
  12. Buried Amid the John Dowd News, Mueller’s Team Seems to Think Trump Knows about the June 9 Meeting
  13. Dowd And Out
  14. The Very Globalized Forces Manipulating the Anti-Globalist President
  15. Iran-Contra Cover-Up King Doesn’t Address Sessions’ Other Lies, or Conspiracy-in-Chief
  16. The GOP PAC-thetic Effort to Disclaim Cambridge Analytica
  17. “DO NOT CONGRATULATE:” Putin Does a Victory Lap — Over Rex Tillerson
  18. Trump’s Legal Team: “If the Law and the Facts Are Against You, Pound the Table and Yell Like Hell”
  19. Cambridge Analytica Uncovered and More to Come
  20. “What Did the President Do and What Do His Lawyers Claim He Was Thinking?”
  21. Duty of Candor: The Timing of the Sessions News
  22. Another Shoe Dropped: Cambridge Analytica Used Its Own Kompromat
  23. Two Other Trump Tweet Innovations: “Fraudulent Activities” and “Conflicts of Interest”
  24. Three Things: Flying Moochin’ Mnuchin Air
  25. The Trump Toadies Who Are Worried about Being Unmasked
  26. Facebook Cuts Off Cambridge Analytica, Promises Further Investigation
  27. On McCabe’s Firing
  28. 10 Years Out: What’s with the Bear in the Middle?
  29. In Bid To SLAPP Stormy Daniels, Trump Admits He Fucked Her
  30. The Distinction between Torturing Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri and Just al-Nashiri
  31. BREAKING! Robert Mueller Would Be Fucking Stupid If He DIDN’T Subpoena Trump Organization
  32. The New Russian Hack Sanctions
  33. Some Cover-Ups Are More Equal Than Other Cover-Ups
  34. Those Trump Panama Hotel Documents? Might Include DOD Grift
  35. Lordy, There Were Tapes
  36. Why Do You Send Your Digital Guy to Meet with the Russian Ambassador?
  37. Open Thread: Russia, Russia, Russia! and Everything Else
  38. Welcome to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Pompeo — the Latest Committee to Have Reason to Investigate Russia!
  39. The Timing of the Felix Sater Interviews
  40. How the DNC Hack Skeptics’ Dominant Theory Sinks Stone
  41. Why Has Putin Changed His Mind about Whether Russians Who Hacked the US Are Patriots Or Others?
  42. Reality Winner: The Cost of Mounting a Defense Arguing the Government Overclassifies
  43. The Preferred Anti-Obama Russian Hack Story Remains Silent on Shadow Brokers
  44. Shorting the US-DPRK Meeting [UPDATED]
  45. Oleg Deripaska Gets Ahead of His Own Fusion Dossier (and Manafort Prosecution?) Disclosures
  46. Senate Democrats Caving, May Roll Back Dodd-Frank Regulations
  47. Roger Stone’s Rat-Eating Swiss Cheese Denials
  48. Nunberg’s Claim that Trump Talked of the June 9 Meeting the Week Before Is Plausible
  49. The Nunberg Subpoena: Is He Protecting Bannon, Rather than Trump?
  50. 15 Months and 15,000 Words Later, Boosters Still Obscure the Timeline on the Steele Dossier
  51. The Mueller Subpoena Starts at the Moment a Real Estate Deal in Moscow Might Get Trump Elected
  52. Reality Winner Seeks to Use Trump’s Denials of Russian Hacking in Her Defense
  53. The Competing Hope Hicks White Lies Stories
  54. Thug, Mob, Rogue: Trump Organization’s Own Description of Its Panama Hotel
  55. Three Things: This Matin, Think Latin
  56. NBC’s Broken Story about Mueller Charging the DNC Hackers

February 2018

  1. Notes on Trumpian Motion Series
  2. Mueller Wants to Know How Far the Game of Email Telephone Got within the Trump Campaign
  3. What Lies Beneath the Gates
  4. Kushner Floats! Was Trump’s Witch Hunt Outburst about Jared Losing Clearance?
  5. Andy Finds an Acorn: The Searches of Carter Page’s Devices
  6. We Have to Build the Future Out of the Past
  7. About Not Making Nice
  8. The Significance of the January 12 Reauthorization of Carter Page’s FISA Order
  9. Abbe Lowell’s Unusual Silence in the Face of Jared Kushner’s Clearance Woes
  10. Keith Gartenlaub Just Notified the Ninth Circuit that Trump and Both Parties Now Support Releasing FISA Applications
  11. Schiff Memo Reveals that Mifsud Specifically Told Papadopoulos Russia Would Release Hillary Emails to Help Trump Campaign
  12. The Silent Cast of Characters in the Very Noisy Recent Mueller Moves
  13. Konstantin Kilimnik’s PRISM-Accessible Communications
  14. Government Won’t Be Able to Hide Its Informant in MalwareTech Case
  15. So — What’s New, Rick? Paul? Fresh Indictments Today on Bank, Tax Fraud
  16. Speaking of Manafort’s Efforts to Make Bail Doing Him In
  17. Jared’s Clearance and the Foreign Policy Version of Conspiracy to Defraud America
  18. Beneficiaries of Trumpian Motion
  19. Open Thread: All in the Families?
  20. In Two So-Called Fact Checks of Facebook, NYT Forgets Everything It Knows about Indictments
  21. Meanwhile, Over In Turkey . . .
  22. Illiberal Hollywood: Kicked in its Pants by a Panther
  23. The Conspiracy to Defraud the United States Backbone of the Internet Research Agency and Manafort Indictments
  24. Updated Mueller Docket Census: We Still Don’t Know What 6 Prosecutors Are Doing
  25. What Did Mueller Achieve with the Internet Research Agency Indictment?
  26. Economic Elites Drive Trumpian Motion
  27. Open Thread: Guns, Guns, and More Bloody Guns
  28. Rosemary Collyer Moves to Lock Down the FISA Court
  29. The Gates Flip and the 404(b) Delay
  30. New Right Hook: Mike Flynn Lied When He Admitted to a Judge He Lied to the FBI
  31. Nothing Happens in a Vacuum: Diplomatic Scuffles and Academic Speeches in Moscow
  32. 2018 Senate Intelligence Global Threat Hearing Takeaways
  33. Graham and Grassley Are Seeing Christopher Steele’s Ghost Where Mike Flynn Lurks
  34. Media Criticism: The Press Needs to Get Far More Rigorous about Reporting on Cybersecurity
  35. In Op-Ed Calling for Counter-Disinformation Strategy, Will Hurd Engages in His Own Disinformation
  36. On the Grassley-Feinstein Dispute
  37. Negative Responses to Trumpian Motion
  38. In Which Mark Warner Refuses to Repeat His Comment That He Hadn’t Seen Evidence of “Collusion”
  39. George Papadopoulos’ Social Media Call Records Were Not Subpoenaed Until After His Interviews
  40. The Timing of Mark Warner’s PseudoScandal Texts
  41. How the White House’s Tolerance for Wife-Beaters Exposed That It Was Harboring Counterintelligence Threats
  42. What Journalist(s) Told Rinat Akhmetshin about the Steele Dossier?
  43. A New Kind of Fake News Assault: 47 Sites (Including Zero Hedge) Steal an emptywheel Post
  44. Ruin a Movie with a Name: Get Carter (Page)
  45. Recently Released Mueller Emails Show How Conservative He Was, Not How Aggressive
  46. Are There Other Emails about the June 9 Meeting?
  47. Trumpian Motion
  48. In Defense of Suspected Russian Agent Carter Page, Michael Mukasey Just Gave Defense Attorneys a Big Gift
  49. Nunes Is So Dumb He Missed the Most Likely Way the Trump Campaign Might Have Been Wiretapped
  50. Asha Rangappa Demands Progressive Left Drop Bad Faith Beliefs in Op-Ed Riddled with Errors Demonstrating [FBI’s] Bad Faith
  51. What Jackie Wallace Said, And Less Important Super Bowl 52 Trash Talk
  52. The Harm Releasing the Nunes Memo Caused
  53. Under Cover of the Nunes Memo, Russian Spooks Sneak Openly into Meetings with Trump’s Administration
  54. The Trey Gowdy Retirement

January 2018

  1. Remaking the World
  2. Another Kind of Recovery: Post-Maria Puerto Rico and Health Care Critical Infrastructure
  3. Trump Has Told Friends and Aides that Paul Manafort Can Incriminate Him
  4. Byron York Confirms that Many Names and Sources Implicated Carter Page as an Agent of a Foreign Power
  5. Defense Department Rules Data on Failure in Afghanistan Is Not Releasable
  6. On Disinformation and the Dossier
  7. Carter Page Did Not Need to be a Spy to be Targeted Under FISA
  8. FBI Decided Four Months after They Arrested MalwareTech that He Told Them He Hadn’t Been Drinking before the Arrest
  9. Dear JD Gordon [and Jared]: Mueller Has 17 Prosecutors; White House Obstruction Accounts for Just One
  10. Feinstein’s Homework Assignments
  11. How Did Don McGahn Threaten to Quit without Telling Trump?
  12. The Increasing Panic Surrounding Devin Nunes’ “Extraordinarily Reckless” Plan to Release Memo
  13. Why Did Trump Tweet an “In the Ball Park” Accurate Number for Hillary’s Total Staffers on June 9, 2016?
  14. The Gizmo™: Correlation Doesn’t Equal Adversary Nation
  15. On the Sessions and Trump Interviews: It’s Not Just Obstruction of Justice
  16. “Notwithstanding”: How Congress Enabled Chuck Hagel and Ash Carter to Keep Child Rape and Torture from Disrupting Forever War
  17. The Government Built Its Criminal Case against MalwareTech Off Incidental Collection
  18. Sergei Millian and the Simpson Testimony
  19. Symbolic Violence In Neoliberalism
  20. Under Tom’s Thumb Conference Championship Trash Talk 2018
  21. Mueller Wants to Delay Telling Manafort and Gates What Other Crimes It Knows They Committed
  22. Steve King Just Voted to Subject Americans to “Worse than Watergate”
  23. Jack Goldsmith and Susan Hennessey Run Cover for Those Giving Jeff Sessions Unreviewable Authority to Criminalize Dissent
  24. Has Hal Martin Finally Gotten the Government to Admit He Didn’t Feed Shadow Brokers?
  25. On Pierre Bourdieu Part 4: Symbolic Capital
  26. The June 9 Trump Tower Limited Hangout
  27. The 702 Capitulations: a Real Measure of the “Deep State”
  28. Let the Pro-Oprah Resistance Beware: Scam in Progress?
  29. With the Corey Lewandowski Interview, Devin Nunes Confirms He’s No More Than Trump’s Mole
  30. How Did the “Publication” of the Dossier Lead to a Murder before It was Published?
  31. What Glenn Simpson Said about the Relationship with the FBI
  32. Divisional Playoffs 2018
  33. The Simpson Transcript: The Dossier as Predicate
  34. Incidental Collection Under Section 702 Has Probably Contributed to Trump’s Downfall, Too
  35. Let me tell you a story
  36. Stephen Miller Claims that Trump’s Russian Investigation Line Was a Disclaimer
  37. Trump’s Obstruction Defense: Rod Rosenstein Wrote a Letter
  38. Mark Corallo’s Obstruction Concerns: “The President…did not attend the meeting.”
  39. The Misrepresentations of the Simpson-Veselnitskaya Meetings
  40. What HPSCI Wants to Protect in 702: Back Doors, the Tor Exception, and a Dysfunctional FISC
  41. The Political Gift Economy
  42. Why Did Ivanka Run into Just Veselnitskaya and Akhmetshin at the Trump Tower Elevator?
  43. Won’t Doubling Down on Paul Manafort Being a Traitor Make Him More Likely To Flip?
  44. Stephen Miller Spends 12 Minutes Refusing to Answer Whether Trump Met with Russians Offering Dirt
  45. The Base Bill for 702 Reauthorization: Serial Admissions Oversight Committees Haven’t Been Doing Their Jobs
  46. Wildcard Weekend 2017
  47. The Government’s MalwareTech Case Goes (Further) To Shit
  48. Did The Most Senior White House Official Lie to the NYT about the Content of the Comey Firing Letter?
  49. Paul Manafort Has Conducted His Oleg Deripaska Dalliance on PRISM Provider Google’s Servers
  50. Why I Left The Intercept: The Surveillance Story They Let Go Untold for 15 Months
  51. On Pierre Bourdieu Part 3: Habitus
  52. Reminder: The Guy Killing the HPSCI Investigation Was Part of Trump’s Troubled Transition Team
  53. Two Months After Papadopoulos Plea Revealed, Mifsud’s Past Still Being Scrubbed
  54. Speech and Email Release: The Three Public Statement Signals Tied to Russia’s Dirt-as-Emails
  55. The Papadopoulos Delay
  56. Oz on Papadopoulos

2017 633

December 2017

  1. NYT Does Not Have the Smoking Gun on Trump Campaign Email Knowledge
  2. End Of The Regular Season Road Trash
  3. What Explains Trump’s Focus on Manafort?
  4. Corruption Is The Use Of Public Position For Private Gain
  5. Chuck Johnson’s Narrowed Scope of What a Russian Is Excludes Known Conspirators in Operation
  6. The Narrow Scope of the Flynn Denials
  7. Why Call Alice Donovan a Troll?
  8. Happy Holidays to All
  9. In August 2016, Rinat Akhmetshin Suggested Russian Adoptions Would Resume Under Trump
  10. In Which Former NatSec Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy Embraces Russian Disinformation
  11. Modern Lovers Christmas Trash
  12. On Jim Baker’s Non-Prosecution for Leaking
  13. On Pierre Bourdieu Part 2: Systems of Domination
  14. Congress Should Revert to Section 702 as Passed in 2008, If That’s What the Spooks Want!
  15. A Thousand Days of Hell in Yemen Produce a Million Cases of Cholera
  16. Fake Russian Metadata that Will Do Nothing to Prevent Nuclear War
  17. The Bankrupt Attribution of WannaCry
  18. Tom Bossert Brings You … Axis of CyberEvil!
  19. The “Insurance” Text Explained: A Debate on How Urgently to Investigation Trump’s Russian Ties
  20. Why Republicans Launched the GSA Email Attack Now
  21. Trump Appears to Have Withheld the KT McFarland Email about the “Thrown Election”
  22. Trump Transition Team Outraged To Be Treated as Transition Team!!
  23. Nothing Is Easy Stand Up Trash Talk
  24. Poot and POTUS Plan to Move Beyond the Mueller Investigation
  25. The Many Gaps and Inconsistencies in Natalia Veselnitskaya’s Story, Starting with Ike
  26. Pay Now and Pay Later: What Losing CHIP means to America
  27. Scott Balber’s Sixth Attempt to Craft the June 9 Meeting Story
  28. Yes, in Gartenlaub, FBI Was Hunting for Child Porn in the Name of Foreign Intelligence Information
  29. How Does the Strzok Text Dump Differ from Jim Comey’s July 5, 2016 Speech?
  30. The Ohrs’ Activities Raise New Questions about the December 13 Dossier Report
  31. Christopher Wray Departs from Jim Comey’s “Balance” on Encryption
  32. Why Is Russia Finally Letting (Dubious) Details of Its Involvement in DNC Hack Out?
  33. Joby Warrick Returns to Bioweapons Security Theater
  34. On Pierre Bourdieu Part 1: Vocabulary
  35. Three Months After Problematic John Sipher Post, Just Security Makes Clear It Let Known Errors Sit for Two Months
  36. A Decade Of Trash
  37. “Circumventing” Encryption Is Different than “Weakening” or “Altering” It
  38. A Bit about Dossiers: You’ve Been Eating this FUD for Years
  39. Scott Balber’s Latest Narrative on Trump Tower
  40. Two (Three) Possibilities on the “WikiLeaks” Archive Story
  41. Cognitive Rot and the Steele Dossier
  42. Christopher Wray Was Doing Great Until He Accused Chad of Spewing Jihadist Propaganda
  43. Ten Years After: A Decade At Emptywheel
  44. Michael Flynn: Serial Doublecrosser
  45. The Spooks Struggle with Reciprocity
  46. 10 Years of emptywheel: Many Happy Rabbit Holes
  47. Anniversary Top Ten from Ed Walker
  48. Three Things: Mit Handelsblatther
  49. The Ridiculous — and Chilling — IP3 Plan for Saudi Economic Diversification
  50. Via What Surveillance Intercepts Is the Government Chasing Manafort’s Ghost-Writing?
  51. A Dragnet of emptywheel’s Most Important Posts on Surveillance, 2007 to 2017
  52. On the Timing of the Nghia Hoang Pho Plea
  53. 10 Years of emptywheel: Jim’s Dimestore
  54. Three Things: The Reanimation of Nixon Among Them
  55. Living Without Shame is a Political Act
  56. 10 Years of emptywheel: Key Non-Surveillance Posts 2016-2017
  57. 10 Years of emptywheel: Key Non-Surveillance Posts 2013-2015
  58. 10 Years of emptywheel: Key Non-Surveillance Posts 2011-2012
  59. 10 Years of emptywheel: Key Non-Surveillance Posts 2008-2010
  60. K. T. McFarland’s Big Fat Email [UPDATED]
  61. Big Game Trash Talk
  62. The Unmasking Panic and the Flynn Plea
  63. HPSCI’s Big Reform to Section 702: Figure Out What “Derived From” Means, Six Months Too Late
  64. Next Stop: Jared
  65. Three Things: No, No, and Hell to the NO on the Tax Bill [UPDATED]
  66. Throwing H2O on the Pompeo to State Move

November 2017

  1. “Hype:” How FBI Decided Searching 702 Content Was the Least Intrusive Means
  2. On the Jared and Flynn Stories
  3. Did the Flynn-Associated IP3 Presentation Anticipate the Saudi Orb?
  4. WAG: The Government Made a Significant FISA Back Door Request Just Before December 9, 2015
  5. Retired Generals of Flynn-Associated IP3: “United States Mideast Strategy Is Resourcing Conflict”
  6. The Russian Metadata in the Shadow Brokers Dump
  7. The Seychelles Meeting Inches Kushner Closer to Quid Pro Quo with Sanctioned Russian Money
  8. The Intelligence Community’s Swiss Cheese Preemptive 702 Unmasking Reports: Now with Twice the Holes!
  9. As We Face Our Current Emergency Let’s Not Forget How (and Who) Our Last One Contributed to This One
  10. Leftovers Turkey Trash Talk
  11. Jared’s Flynn ‘Surfing’, Election Day to Present
  12. How Did Christopher Steele Collect Information after Sources (Allegedly) Dried Up?
  13. Did the Steele Dossier Lead the Democrats To Be Complacent after They Got Hacked?
  14. The Dumb Ass Poker Faces in the White House Just Admitted Their Investigation Coincides with Mike Flynn’s
  15. On Giving Thanks in Complicated World
  16. The Queen Of Soul Thanksgiving Trash Talk
  17. Does the Fusion Ledger Explain Why They’ve Pled the Fifth?
  18. In Defense of Subpoena for Fusion Bank Records, HPSCI Alleges Fusion Paid Journalists
  19. Three Things: Take Action on Tax Bill, Net Neutrality, and a Courtroom Virgin
  20. Abbe Lowell’s “No Apparent Evidence” of Jared Kushner Involvement Defense
  21. The Thin Indictment against Behzad Mesri
  22. The Continued “Oh, Trump Will Just Pardon Them” Meme Is Stupid
  23. Scott Balber Coordinates the June 9 Meeting Story a Fourth Time
  24. “I Hate the Word Guilty” Says the Self-Described “Conduit” between the Agalarovs and Trump
  25. Kaspersky’s Carrot-and-Stick TAO Compromise Incident Report
  26. The Jerry Jones and Roger Goodell Ramjet Blasts Off Trash Talk
  27. Abbe Lowell Reveals the Complete Inadequacy of the Intelligence Committee Russian Investigations
  28. Did Akhmetshin and Kaveladze Coordinate Before or After Jared Disclosed the June 9 Meeting
  29. Culture and Neoliberalism
  30. Leahy-Lee versus USA Lip Service: An Improvement, But Still a Domestic-as-Foreign Surveillance Bill
  31. On 702, NSA Wants to Assure You You’re Not a Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target Target
  32. The Bail Fight that Manafort and Gates Can’t Win
  33. The Implicit Threat in Julian Assange’s Ambassador Tweet
  34. On the Breadcrumbs Suggesting Feds Flipped Reza Zarrab
  35. How FBI Could Use Reverse Targeting to Use Section 702 against Keith Gartenlaub
  36. Yup: The Government Is Secretly Hiding Its Crypto Battles in the Secret FISA Court
  37. Eleven (or Thirteen) Senators Are Cool with Using Section 702 to Spy on Americans
  38. The Don Jr – WikiLeaks Emails Are Underwhelming
  39. Maybe Stephen Miller’s Discussions with George Papadopoulos Are Why Jeff Sessions Can’t Recall Any Email Discussions?
  40. Mueller’s Watergate Prosecutor Is Liaising with the White House Lawyers, and Other Tidbits on Mueller’s Org Chart
  41. Today in the Ben Wittes (And Friends) Utter Lack of Self-Awareness File: Family and Friends Edition
  42. Alabama Getaway: Roy Moore’s Little Toy Gun Trash
  43. At Some Point Trump’s Denials Are about Criminal Defense, Not Just Denial
  44. The Slow Death of Neoliberalism: Part 4C Conclusion
  45. Fifteen Years Fighting the War on Terror Would Have Inured Mike Flynn to Kidnapping
  46. The Flynn-Turkey Deal Raises the Obstruction Stakes for the Preet Bharara Firing
  47. Why Is WikiLeaks Reading from ShadowBrokers’ Kaspersky Script?
  48. Is There More to Trump’s Thumbs Up Picture?
  49. HJC’s Manager’s Amendment Blows Open 702 Metadata Queries
  50. About the Timing of the Binney Meeting
  51. “The Goals That Are Being Scored” … the Carter Page Saga
  52. The Slow Death of Neoliberalism: Part 4B
  53. Be Wary of Jumping on the Changing Veselnitskaya Claims
  54. The Curious Timing of Kushner’s visit to KSA and the U.S.’ EITI Exit
  55. Manafort’s Lawyers Will Challenge the Legitimacy of Prosecuting the Ukrainian Money Laundering
  56. Mueller Has Enough Prosecutors to Continue Walking and Chewing Gum While We’ve Been Watching Manafort
  57. The Slow Death of Neoliberalism: Part 4A The Nature of the Person
  58. Space City Trash Talk
  59. JD Gordon Says Any Investigators He’s Been Speaking with, He’s Been Honest
  60. On Metadata and Manipulation: the First Guccifer 2.0 Documents
  61. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley Has Spent the Week Cowering from His Party’s Legal Problems
  62. On July 2016 Panel, George Papadopoulos Used Same Cover Organization as Joseph Mifsud
  63. The Cost of the Lawfare Surrounding the Steele Dossier Will Vastly Outstrip Its Original Cost
  64. What Does the White House Know about Sam Clovis that Chuck Grassley Claims Not To?
  65. The False Statements George Papadopoulos Made about “Dirt” Were Designed to Hide Whether He Told the Campaign about the Emails
  66. Jeff Sessions Unforgets the Discussions with Russians He Twice Swore He Didn’t Know About

October 2017

  1. Victoria Toensing’s Story about Sam Clovis’ Grand Jury Appearance
  2. We Have No Idea What Emails the Papadopoulos Plea Refer To
  3. The Footnote Shows Manafort Was Hiding Willingness to Reach Out to Russia
  4. A Month and a Half before the June 9 Meeting, Trump Campaign Learned about Hacked Emails
  5. Paul Manafort Indicted for Laundering 50 Times as Much Through Rugs as Through Household Labor
  6. Some Thoughts On The Manafort Indictment
  7. Indictment Weekend Trash Talk
  8. The Boente Resignation and the Reported Charge[s]/Indictment[s]
  9. Trump’s Campaign Didn’t Use Cambridge Analytica’s Pyschographics; Did His SuperPAC?
  10. Did Manafort Prep Trump for the Dossier Lawfare
  11. M&M Mars Candy, Trump and The Estate Tax Giveaway
  12. Cambridge Analytica and the Hillary Emails
  13. Reasons Why Dems Have Been Fucking Stupid on the Steele Dossier: a Long Essay
  14. Shorter Kaspersky: Our Home AV Found NSA’s Lost Tools Six Months Before NSA Did
  15. Ron Wyden Is Worried the Government Will Use FISA Process to Force Companies to Make Technical Changes
  16. The Senate Intelligence Committee 702 Bill Is a Domestic Spying Bill
  17. Rick Ledgett Claims NSA’s Malware Isn’t Malware
  18. After the Ad Hominem Approach to Surveillance Reauthorization Fails, Spooks Now Revert to Secrecy
  19. Investigate All the Sleazy Influence Peddlers!
  20. Random Trash
  21. Jeff Sessions Can’t Remember Whether He Was Involved in Firing All the US Attorneys
  22. Dot Connecting about Failure to Connect the Dots: Trump Tower Edition
  23. Technical Fixes in HJC Bill Suggest SCOTUS May Have Reviewed a (2015 ?) FISA Application
  24. In Defense of Trump’s Steele Dossier Tweet
  25. Christopher Wray and the Myth Created by Parallel Construction
  26. ShadowBrokers’ Kiss of Death
  27. Evidence the US Government Used Section 702 against Keith Gartenlaub[‘s Parents-in-Law]
  28. The Slow Death of Neoliberalism: Part 3 The Phillips Curve and Critical Theory
  29. How Trump Could Install a Mole in the Mueller Inquiry
  30. In Discussion of Unmasking Admiral Rogers Gets Closer to Admitting Types of Section 702 Cybersecurity Use
  31. Let MalwareTech Surf! Status Report
  32. Ben Wittes and Susan Hennessey Endorse Judicial Lawbreaking
  33. Spaced In Time Trash Talk
  34. On the Kaspersky Hack
  35. Ned Price Rebuts HPSCI’s Ignorance on Unmasking with His Own Stupid Obfuscation
  36. The Latest CNN Scoop Doesn’t Prove What Everyone Says It Does
  37. PureVPN Doesn’t Need to Keep Logs Given How Many Google Keeps
  38. Senator Feinstein Confirms the Public Steele Dossier Is Not the Whole Thing
  39. Dear Bob Corker: Trump Has Also Been Starting Wars Here at Home
  40. Killer Trash Talk
  41. The Slow Death of Neoliberalism: Part 2
  42. 702 Reauthorization: The Anti-Leak Package
  43. Chuck Grassley Finally Shows Concern about Parallel Construction — Affecting Trump
  44. Five Reasons the 702 Reauthorization Transparency Provisions Are Bogus
  45. The Reason Treasury Has Never Complied with Reagan’s EO: Rampant Privacy Violations
  46. The Conflicting Homework Explanations in Three Kaspersky Stories
  47. 702 Reauthorization Bill: Why a Back Door Fix for Criminal Searches Is Meaningless
  48. Section 702 Reauthorization Bill: The Very Narrowly Scoped Back Door Search Fix
  49. Kaspersky and the Third Major Breach of NSA’s Hacking Tools
  50. 702 Reauthorization Bill: The “About” Fix (What Is A Person?)
  51. Richard Burr Accuses the Obama Administration of Running Out the Clock on Election Interference
  52. Richard Burr’s Tacit Warning to Christopher Steele
  53. Mark Warner’s Inconsistent Social Media Law-Mongering
  54. Three Things: Was Slow Response to Hurricane Maria Deliberate?
  55. Putin Discovers He Needs to Indict Another Russian Hacker
  56. In Praise of Day Two
  57. The Slow Death of Neoliberalism: Part 1

September 2017

  1. Why Did Google Miss a Lot of Users Affected by FISA?
  2. The Trump Trash Talking of Puerto Rico
  3. How Keith Gartenlaub Turned Child Porn into Foreign Intelligence
  4. In Reality Winner Case, Government Warns of Recruitment by Media Outlets that “Procure the Unauthorized Disclosure of Classified Info”
  5. Trump’s Belated Jones Act Waiver for PR Is A Sham, Here’s Why
  6. FISA and the Space-Time Continuum
  7. How the FISC Takes Notice of Magistrate Decisions and DOJ Tries to Hide That
  8. Government Decides Reality Winner Leaked Just One Document After All
  9. The Mark Zaid Materials from the Jeffrey Sterling Trial
  10. Not Mentioned in Roger Stone’s Straw Rat-Fucker Statement: the Peter Smith Rat-Fuck
  11. It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
  12. Three Things: So Many Questions, September Edition
  13. Facebook Anonymously Admits It IDed Guccifer 2.0 in Real Time
  14. Did President Trump Violate Federal Law With His Alabama Rant?
  15. The NSA’s 5-Page Entirely Redacted Definition of Metadata
  16. When The President Hates A Race And Talks Racist Trash
  17. How to Read the DHS Targeted States Information
  18. The NSA’s Purge Obfuscations
  19. The Reclassification of Details on the 2011 Upstream Fight
  20. Amid Promises to Share Ads with Congress, Some Other Interesting Promises
  21. A Better Example of Article III FISA Oversight: Reaz Qadir Khan
  22. One Thing Not Mentioned in Mueller Requests from the White House: The Putin Phone Call
  23. Facebook Troll Account Events Happen in Wake of Guccifer 2.0 Released Targeting Data
  24. Why Did Guccifer 2.0 Keep Harping on VAN?
  25. Why Was Manafort FISA Tapped Rather than Criminal Tapped?
  26. SSCI Plays Hardball with Michael Cohen’s Attempt to Distract from Trump Tower Deal
  27. Can Congress — or Robert Mueller — Order Facebook to Direct Its Machine Learning?
  28. USA Freedom Act Scofflaw Rosemary Collyer Claims She Can’t Find a Tech Expert
  29. The Domestic Communications NSA Won’t Reveal Are Almost Certainly Obscured Location Communications
  30. Jemele Hill Is Right, Trump Is A Racist Bigot, Trash Talk
  31. The (Thus Far) Flimsy Case for Republican Cooperation on Russian Targeting
  32. Financing Medicare For All
  33. Facebook Doesn’t Need a Probable Cause Search Warrant to Turn Over Ad Data to Robert Mueller
  34. Shadow Brokers and the “Second Source”
  35. Mike Morell Resigns Out of Conscience because of [Leaks about] Torture
  36. Software is a Long Con
  37. Coats v. Wyden, the Orwellian Reclassification Edition
  38. Companies Victimized by Repurposed NSA Tools Don’t Share Those Details with Government
  39. The Jared Firing Line
  40. Twitter Asked to Tell Reality Winner the FBI Had Obtained Her Social Media Activity
  41. Senate Intelligence Committee Doesn’t Think the Intelligence Community Inspector General Does Enough All-IC Oversight
  42. Senate Intelligence Committee Tried to Say WikiLeaks Constituted — Not Just Resembled — A Spy
  43. Hurricane Trash Talk
  44. UNITEDRAKE and Hacking under FISA Orders
  45. Shadow Brokers’ Persistence: Where TSB Has Signed, Message, Hosted, and Collected
  46. Don Jr Does Not Recall Not Recalling Rinat Akhmetshin at the June 9 Meeting
  47. EO 12333 Sharing Will Likely Expose Security Researchers Even More Via Back Door Searches
  48. Facebook’s Global Data: A Parallel Intelligence Source Rivaling NSA
  49. John Sipher’s Garbage Post Arguing the Steele Dossier Isn’t Garbage
  50. The Post-Press Michael Cohen Details in the Steele Dossier
  51. CNN Worries about Mueller’s Aggressive Tactics, But Real Concern May Be Senate Intelligence Committee
  52. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay: Conclusion On Labor Day
  53. Two Addendums To Ben Wittes’ “How to Read an Investigation”
  54. On the Lawfare over the Steele Dossier
  55. Rinat Ahkmetshin: “Nothing Is Secret.”
  56. Battle For The Wheel Trash Talk
  57. Did FBI Plan Russia’s Fire Sale in San Francisco for a Specific Reason?
  58. The UK’s New Revolving Door Hacker Prosecution
  59. Reality Winner Claims NSA’s Collection on Russians Had Already Been Compromised
  60. NYT’s Churlish Vote Hacking Story Should Name Reality Winner
  61. Guccifer 2.0: What about those DCCC and “Clinton Foundation” documents
  62. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay: The Enlightenment

August 2017

  1. On the New (and Not-So New) Claims about Guccifer 2.0
  2. Trump’s Lawyer: I Did Not Go to Prague I Did Not Go to Prague I Did Not Go to Prague I Did Not Go to Prague
  3. Dmitry Peskov: Building Skyscrapers Is Not Our Work [But Is Stealing Elections?]
  4. As Journalism and Democracy Struggle, New America Caves to Google
  5. The Nameless Non-Agents Arranging Rohrabacher’s Trump Meeting
  6. How Does Inking a Luxury Residential Real Estate Deal in Moscow Get You Elected President? In the US, I Mean?
  7. Ron DeSantis Attempting to Stop Criminal Investigation into Theft that Benefitted Him
  8. Michael Cohen Starts Not Recalling His Negotiations with Dmitry Peskov, “Main Protagonist” of Campaign Versus Hillary
  9. The Steele Dossier and WaPo’s Trump Tower Scoop
  10. Can’t Stop/Won’t Stop: CNN Has A New Racist Bigot Apologist
  11. The Arpaio Pardon — Don’t Obsess about the Russian Investigation
  12. Trash Talk: Somewhere Around Barstow
  13. Some Thoughts On The Arpaio Pardon
  14. MalwareTech’s Case Gets Complex
  15. A Tale of Two Malware Researchers: DOJ Presented Evidence Yu Pingan Knew His Malware Was Used as Such
  16. The Embarrass Mitch McConnell Provision of the Intel Authorization
  17. The Arpaio Pardon: You’re Not the Audience
  18. Shadow Brokers Gets Results! Congress Finally Moves to Oversee Vulnerabilities Equities Process
  19. Angry Mom: Oh, Honey — If Anybody’s ‘Out of Touch’, It’s You
  20. Trump Bitched Out McConnell about Not Protecting Him in Russia Probe on Day Manafort Raid Story Broke
  21. Senate Intelligence Bill Aims to Label WikiLeaks — and Maybe the Journalists Who Look Like Them — Spooks
  22. Government Aims to Protect Other Ongoing Investigations in MalwareTech Case
  23. Three Things: Eclipsed, Killer Robots, Back to the Salt Mines [UPDATED]
  24. How the “Fake News” Panic Fed Breitbart
  25. Trash Talk: The Trashiest Trash Until Next Trash
  26. Why Did WikiLeaks Publish the Turkish Emails?
  27. Rohrabacher Can’t Remember Talking Assange Pardon with Trump But Is Sure Trump Wants Mind-Boggling Info from Julian Assange
  28. Trump Takes 2 Hours to Call Vehicular Manslaughter Terrorism in Barcelona, Still Won’t in Charlottesville
  29. Dana Rohrabacher Brokering Deal for Man Publishing a CIA Exploit Every Week
  30. Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans Have No Excuse for Not Doing Something about White Supremacist Violence
  31. FBI Imagines Using Assessments to Recruit US Engineers for Insight onto Spying in Semiconductor Industry
  32. On the DreamHost Warrant
  33. Government Changes Its Tune about MalwareTech
  34. The Proxy Step Ignored in the NGP/VAN Analysis
  35. Lawfare Disappears Democratic Support for Centrist Failures to Claim a “Sea-Change” because of Russia
  36. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay: Economics in Critical Theory
  37. Three Times Donald Trump Treated Vehicular Manslaughter as Terrorism
  38. Trash Talk: Watch This Space
  39. The 702 Compliance Reporting
  40. Marcus Hutchins, the Word of God
  41. Report from North Carolina Makes Reality Winner Leak Far More Important
  42. In Bid to Help Trump, John Dowd Suggests Manafort Raid Could Do Real Damage to the President
  43. The Nine-Minute Gap [UPDATE-2]
  44. Three Things: Non-Nuclear Proliferation
  45. As News of Raid Breaks, National Enquirer Discovers Manafort’s Long-Reported Mistress
  46. On the Manafort Raid
  47. The AlphaBay Jewish Community Center Bomb Threat of the Week Service
  48. Rick Ledgett’s Straw Malware
  49. The Kronos Needle in the AlphaBay Haystack
  50. The “Liberal” NY Times Focuses on the Next Disastrous GOP Daddy
  51. MalwareTech’s FBI-Induced Tour to Milwaukee, WI
  52. Former Senators Sessions and Coats Likely Just Set Off a Conflict with Congress
  53. Robert Mueller’s Grand Jury and the Significance of Felix Sater
  54. Three Things: Mas Gas, Las Vegas and Sass
  55. FBI Busts the Guy Who Saved the World from NSA’s Malware
  56. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay: Psychoanalysis in Critical Theory
  57. Three Things: Bad, Worse, and Just Deal Already
  58. Sowing Confusion about Fusion
  59. Incendiary Lawsuit Alleging More Trump Obstruction Shows Benghazi Booster Admitting He Has No Credibility
  60. The Leakers Get Craftier

July 2017

  1. Three Things: It’s All About the Cable, Mabel. Oh, and the Mooch
  2. Meditations: What Is this Thing? Examining Trump-Russia
  3. Three *More* Things: Tarsmacked, Shuffled and Screwed?
  4. Three Things: In the Debris Field After Health Care ‘Freedom’ Act
  5. Three Things: #KillTheBill, Kill It Dead, Die Already [UPDATED]
  6. With Clowns To The Left, And Jokers On The Right, Trump Turns To Scaramucci
  7. The Wingnut and the Comedian
  8. If a Tech Amicus Falls in the Woods but Rosemary Collyer Ignores It, Would It Matter?
  9. Three Things: Killing Oil, Too Money, Kaspersky’s World
  10. A Sword Never Kills: The Trump Administration’s Increasing Deadliness
  11. Shorter Jared: “It Depends upon What the Meaning of the Word ‘Collude’ Is”
  12. The Banality Of Evil Access Journalism
  13. Call to Action: Senate Vote Ahead – Stop Trumpcare
  14. Trumpnami: Someone Tsurfed the News Tsunami?
  15. The Long-Delayed Jeff Sessions Reveal
  16. Trumpnami: Good Luck Staying Ahead of That
  17. The Cillizza Bag
  18. Chris Wray’s DodgeBall and Trump’s Latest Threats
  19. McCain’s Brain Versus American Lives and Healthcare
  20. Corporate Biopower as an Instrument of US Oligarchy
  21. Yevgeniy Nikulin Writes The Donald
  22. ‘Look, You Can Live on Minimum Wage!’ Say Modern Slavers
  23. Three Things: Shocker, Badger, Vapor
  24. Akhmetshin’s Involvement and the Trump Dossier
  25. Three Things: Lawyer Dumps Kushner, Hot at Fox, Dimon’s Douchery
  26. And Now Akmetshin, or Why the Hell *Didn’t* Obama ‘Tapp’ Team Trump?
  27. Kushner’s Digital Armies and Facebook’s .1%
  28. Yet More Proof Obama Didn’t “Tapp” Trump
  29. Don Jr Provides Proof Obama Didn’t “Tapp” Trump
  30. Be Careful How You Define Collusion: On the Veselnitskaya Bombshell and the Steele Dossier
  31. James Clapper Updated Rules on Congressional Notice the Day before He Retired
  32. On Trump’s Impenetrable Cyber Security Unit to Guard Election Hacking
  33. Trump Was Worried HR McMaster or Fiona Hill Would Spy on His Conversation with Putin
  34. Maddow’s Forgery and Mistaken Timing
  35. In Mistaking Surveillance for Sabotage, NYT Fearmongers Nukes Again
  36. Death of the Car(go) Cult(ure)
  37. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay: Human Nature is more than Producing Stuff
  38. Nyetya: Sanctions and Taxes
  39. Curiouser: The Blindsiding of Sally Yates
  40. Revisiting Obama on the Weakness of American Democracy
  41. Did NSA Start Using Section 702 to Collect from VPNs in 2014?
  42. NotPetya: Why Would Russia Target Kaspersky AV?

June 2017

  1. Democrats Need a Plan for National Voter Protection
  2. Does Maersk Count as US Critical Infrastructure?
  3. Minority Report: An Alternative Look at NotPetya
  4. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay: Truth and Facts
  5. What Would a Digital Sanctions Regime Relying on Malware Look Like?
  6. When NSA Talks about Unintended Consequences, You Need to Ask a Follow-Up Question
  7. Confirmed: The FISA Court Is Less of a Rubber Stamp than Article III Courts
  8. NSA’s Unsatisfying Response to Rosemary Collyer’s “Lack of Candor” Accusations
  9. The FBI’s Standards for Ingesting Raw 702 Data
  10. The Willful FBI 702 Violation No One Admitted
  11. USA Freedom Act Booster Misses Opportunity to Note FISC Blew off USAF
  12. In Defense of [Gulp] Mike Pompeo
  13. Are Trump’s Associates Forgoing Lawyers because They Expect Pardons?
  14. Obama Worried Trump Would Warn the Russians about Their Compounds … Did They?
  15. The Complexities of Reality Winner’s Case
  16. The Compartments in WaPo’s Russian Hack Magnum Opus
  17. In Opinion Mostly Rejecting Jeffrey Sterling Appeal, Fourth Circuit Criminalizes Unclassified Tips
  18. Penetrated: Today’s Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing on Russian Interference in the 2016 U.S. Elections
  19. The Suspected Assasination of Gareth Williams and Shadow Brokers’ Focus on SWIFT
  20. The [Publicly] Unanswered John Bates Question about How You Define an Active User of a Targeted Facility
  21. In 2010, the Government Tried to Use Section 702 against US Persons
  22. The Outdated XP Testimony on WannaCry to Congress
  23. Theory and the Left
  24. A Touch To Much Of DOJ Politicization: Rosenstein Above Brand
  25. Wyden to Coats: Admit You Know NSA Is Collecting Domestic Communications under 702
  26. Garden of Fallen Leaders
  27. How Did Reality Winner Know to Look for the Russian Hack Document?
  28. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay: The Proletariat
  29. The Sources for Some Russian Voting Hack Stories Will Not Be Prosecuted
  30. Privacy Community Lets Dan Coats Off Easy in Letter Accusing Him of Reneging on His Promise
  31. Which Was a More Sensitive Open Secret Revealed as a Result of the Reality Winner Story: Details on Russian Hacks of Voting Equipment, or Invisible Printer Dots?
  32. Reality Winner Appears to Have Already Leaked “Documents” Plural
  33. Who Would Have Told Trump to Go Back to Demand a Patronage Relationship with Comey?
  34. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay
  35. Vladimir Putin Places a Bet in the Cryptocurrency Shadow Brokers Isn’t Using
  36. Sessions Recusal: Election And/Or Russia?
  37. What a Difference a Day Makes to the Privileges of a King
  38. Comey and Friends Expected Jeff Sessions to Recuse by February 14
  39. Lurking Jared
  40. Dan Coats Just Confirmed He Signed the Section 702 Certificate without Even Reading the Accompanying Memo
  41. Trump FBI Nominee Christopher Wray Gave Inappropriate Briefings to John Ashcroft During Plame Investigation
  42. If We Have to Have FISA, Can We at Least Not Give It to Contractors?
  43. It Is False that Downstream 702 Collection Consists Only of To and From Communications
  44. Putin Starts Talking about Hackers’ Art in Advance of Yevgeniy Nikulin Extradition
  45. Why Did Shadow Brokers Switch Crypto Currencies to Not Make Money With?

May 2017

  1. Two Data Points on Jared Kushner
  2. The Problems with Rosemary Collyer’s Shitty Upstream 702 Opinion
  3. Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram Kendi
  4. What Would Jared Kushner’s Middle East Peace Look Like?
  5. Zbig’s Blowback Outlives Him
  6. The Anonymous Letter to WaPo
  7. From Long Island and Maryland with Love
  8. Angry Mom: Hauling out the Time-Out Chair
  9. Sheldon Whitehouse and the Russia Investigation Deconfliction
  10. Even (Especially?) the FBI Is Susceptible to Fake News
  11. WannaCry Attribution: Missing the Sarcasm Tag
  12. John Brennan Denies a Special Harry Reid Briefing
  13. The Right to Bear Drones
  14. Did Pompeo Also Get an Obstruction Call from Trump?
  15. Were Shitty SAIC Systems the Cause of the CIA’s China Disaster?
  16. The Kushner-Comey Connection
  17. Does Vice President Pence Believe He Has Declassification Authority?
  18. Why Did Tom Bossert Claim WannaCry Was Spread Via Phishing?
  19. The Legitimacy Problem with NSA’s Silence on WannaCry
  20. Yah, These ARE The Droids We Have Been Looking For And Fearing
  21. Wherein emptywheel Avoids Saying Blowjob on the TV
  22. Minority Report: A Look at Timing of WannaCry and Trump’s Spillage
  23. The Scope of the Special Counsel Appointment Is Totally Inadequate
  24. Shadow Brokers: “All your bases are belong to us”
  25. The EternalBlue Source Might Have Been Able to “Fish DOD with Dynamite;” Why Didn’t It?
  26. Shadow Brokers Further Incites War between “scumbag Microsoft Lawyer” and NSA
  27. Hot and Cold Running Sources and Methods Outrage
  28. Trump Should Get No FBI Director Pick
  29. A Letter For Rod Rosenstein To Remember
  30. I Rarely Say I Told You So, Section 704 I Told You So Edition
  31. The Last USA: Dana Boente Is the Best Short Term Solution
  32. FBI Rewrote the Backdoor Search Query Requirement
  33. NSA Should Have Addressed Its Upstream Problem in 2013
  34. Tell The Truth: Who’s Been Bullying Who
  35. Macron’s False Documents
  36. James Clapper: Unmasking And/Or Jeff Sessions?
  37. The Curious Timing of Flynn Events and EO 13769
  38. The Tuesday Night Massacre
  39. Why Accuracy about Wikileaks Matters
  40. Verizon Gets Out of the Upstream Surveillance Business
  41. The Macron Hack: Sometimes the Metadata Is (Part of) the Message
  42. The Implications of the Competing Flynn-Billingslea Stories
  43. The Webster Report Recommendations and FBI’s Federated Back Door Searches
  44. CIA or NSA Warrantlessly Accessed the Content of More than 300 US Persons (Probably More than 1,300) Who Aren’t Terror Suspects
  45. Hemisphere 2.0
  46. AHCA: GOP and its Ugly Poke
  47. One Takeaway from the Five Takeaways from the Comey Hearing: Election 2016 Continues to Suffocate Oversight
  48. The Curious Silence about the Mostly Unremarked Russian BGP Hijack
  49. I Con the Record Transparency Bingo: Playing Card
  50. I Con the Record Transparency Bingo (4): How 151 Million Call Events Can Look Reasonable But Is Besides the Point
  51. Grassley Continues to Ask Worthwhile Questions about the Steele Dossier
  52. I Con the Record Transparency Bingo (3): CIA Continues to Hide Its US Person Network Analysis
  53. I Con the Record Transparency Bingo (2): The Inexplicable Drop in PRTT Numbers
  54. I Con the Record Transparency Bingo (1): Only One Positive Hit on a Criminal Search
  55. Sean Hannity Cries Himself A River
  56. What Queries of Metadata Derived from Upstream Data Might Include
  57. At the Moment NSA Shut Down the PRTT Metadata Dragnet, FISC Permitted It to Query Upstream Metadata
  58. Processing versus Handling in Section 702
  59. WSJ Aims to Restore Confidence in SWIFT … by Remaining Silent about Risks from NSA

April 2017

  1. What Fake French News Looks Like (to a British Consulting Company)
  2. The Upstream “About” Problem Probably Pertains to SCTs, not MCTs
  3. Stagnant Wages And Slow Productivity Growth
  4. NSA Had Found “Many” Improper Queries on Upstream US Person Data at Least by 2013
  5. NSA to Stop Upstream “About” Searches
  6. Facebook Claims Just .1% of Election Related Sharing Was Information Operations
  7. 2017 NFL Draft Trash Talk
  8. Turns Out Alaskans Won’t Get to See Russian Hacker Pyotr Levashov from Their Windows
  9. The Virgin Birth of the Most Inflammatory Trump Dossier Claims
  10. The Productivity Problem
  11. Daddy Fate
  12. NSA’s Spying on Le Pen Is Probably Working Better than GRU’s Spying on Macron
  13. How to Spy on Carter Page
  14. Thoughts on the NYT Comey Blockbuster
  15. The WikiLeaks Deterrent Theory, AKA the Arbitrary Official Secrets Act
  16. Three Things: Oracle’s 299, Flashback, Longreads and 4/20
  17. Annual FISC Report Suggests the Court Did Not Approve ANY Section 702 Certificate in 2016
  18. The Think Tank Story Actually Suggests the Think Tank Wasn’t That Important
  19. I Con the Record’s “Generally” Useful Section 702 Q&A
  20. The Doxing of Equation Group Hackers Raises Questions about the Legal Role of Nation-State Hackers
  21. Dana Boente Still Has a Job and Why That’s of Interest for WikiLeaks
  22. Three Things: Day 1 – Tax Day, Ballmer’s Gift, Microsoft
  23. Three Things: Not-So-Neutral, Day 2 and Reading
  24. Author of USA Freedom Act Says “Nobody’s Got to Use the Internet”
  25. The Shadow Brokers Vulnerability Equities Process: NSA Has Had at Least 96 Days to Warn Microsoft about These Files
  26. NSA Continued Double Dipping at SWIFT Even After It Was Exposed
  27. Pompeo Likens Wikileaks’ Release of CIA’s Hacking Tools to Philip Agee
  28. Three Things: Day 6, Bombs Away, Get Carter 2
  29. A Different Kind Of Modeling Tool
  30. Ruslan Stoyanov and Two Degrees of Separation from Protected Criminal Hackers
  31. Trump Is a Market Disaster
  32. Three Things: Day 7, Get Carter, SLAPP-ish Defense
  33. The Kelihos Pen Register: Codifying an Expansive Definition of DRAS?
  34. Another Russian Hacker (Probably) Not Affiliated with the DNC Hack
  35. Last Fall’s Efforts against Russia: Influence versus Tamper
  36. The ISP/ECTR Workaround: The New Broadband Rules May Be Not So Much What They’ll Sell, But What They Give Away
  37. The October Non-Surprise
  38. Why Susan Rice May Be a Shiny Object
  39. Latest Carter Page Scoop May Not Be That Incriminating
  40. Devin Nunes’ So-Called Bibi Netanyahu Precedent
  41. Who Violated Their Designated Role: Ezra Cohen-Watnick or Susan Rice?
  42. The Outdated Math and Physics Behind Economics

March 2017

  1. Raw Versus Cooked: Could NSC Monitor FBI’s Investigation?
  2. Devin Nunes May Be a Buffoon and a Hack, But I Don’t Think He’s a Criminal
  3. BBC’s FISA Reporter Argues CIA Should Lead Trump Investigation
  4. The Flynn and Kushner Interviews with SSCI
  5. Freedom in the Health Care Debate
  6. Did Trump Just Confirm He Hid Sally Yates’ Warning from Mike Pence?
  7. What Was the Relationship Between FSB and GRU in the DNC Hack, Redux?
  8. Did Devin Nunes Just Reveal NSC Is Monitoring Agency Response to Congress?
  9. DHS IG Gives Secret Service All Clear for 2014 Fence Jumper Incident 6 Days After Latest Fence Jumper
  10. The Jared Kushner Meeting Gets Closer to Quid Pro Quo
  11. National Enquirer’s Serial Spy Novel: Featuring Hillary, Flynn, Assange, Pence, and Ryan
  12. The Lesson Trump Has (Thus Far) Not Taught Us: Civilian Casualties
  13. Republicans Prepare to Accuse Hillary of Russian Ties
  14. FBI Is Examining Possible Coordination with Russia, Not Collusion
  15. Wikileaks Permadrip: “Other Vault 7 Documents”
  16. Which Came First, the Failed Ideology or the Spiking Mortality Rates?
  17. The Temporal Feint in Adam Schiff’s Neat Narrative
  18. Devin Nunes Commits “Felonious Leaking”
  19. When a White Republican Gets Spied On, Privacy Suddenly Matters
  20. FBI Delayed Telling the Gang of Four about Trump-Related Investigation Because It Is So Serious
  21. After Three Suggestions of Doctored Data, Alfa Bank Claims They’re Being Framed
  22. Why Would FSB Officer Dmitry Dokuchaev Use a Yahoo Email Account to Spy for Russia?
  23. How Was Karim Baratov Paid?
  24. Open Thread: Arcs and Sparks
  25. Ron Wyden’s Complaints about Section 702
  26. Ron Wyden’s History of Bogus Excuses for Not Counting 702 US Person Collection
  27. Day 33: Happy Some Saint’s Day
  28. Day 34: Frankly, We Have a Lot Right Now
  29. Dianne Feinstein Discovers Its Not “Just” Metadata
  30. The Yahoo Indictment: Erectile Dysfunction Marketing, Plus Stuff NSA Does All the Time
  31. Count Them: Thirty. Five. Days.
  32. Are Covert Ops Spinning Free from Presidential Findings (Again)?
  33. One Way to Hide Section 702 Spying on US Persons
  34. Password: 0sbP@ss
  35. Open Thread: Don’t Forget Poland!
  36. The Friday Afternoon Massacre: Who Is Overseeing the Trump Investigation?
  37. Or Maybe America Post-9/11 Inspires More Disillusionment?
  38. No More Secrets: Vault 7
  39. CIA Did Not Have Multi-Factor Authentication Controls for All Users as Recently as August 2016
  40. International Women’s Day 2017: #DayWithoutAWoman
  41. Wikileaks Dumps CIA’s Hacking Tools
  42. The Feedback Loop in Christopher Steele’s Dossier
  43. How Trump’s Tantrum May Lead Trump Transition Official Devin Nunes to Delegitimize the Investigation
  44. The Conspiratorial Game of Telephone in Bannon’s Rag that Made Left, Right, and POTUS Go Crazy
  45. Jeff Sessions’ Narrow Recusal
  46. Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?
  47. Five Data Points on the Sessions News
  48. The Border Invasion Trump Didn’t Mention
  49. Democrats Need to Respond to Trump’s Narrative about Solving American Disinvestment

February 2017

  1. If Amazon Web Services Goes Down, Do the Cloud Services AWS Provides the Intelligence Community Too?
  2. Devin Nunes Doesn’t Think Donald Trump Should be Subject To the Kind of “Witch Hunt” He Conducted with Edward Snowden
  3. White House Confident No Fire to Russian Smoke because Investigation Has Lasted Six Months
  4. Reuters Confirms Krebs’ Supposition on Russian Treason Charges
  5. When “They” Go Low, The WHCA Grovels In The Gutter With Them
  6. Democrats Should Propose Susan Collins Serve as Acting Chair for Russian Hack Investigation
  7. Open Thread: Angst
  8. A Modest Proposal: Ban the Interstate Travel of Kansans
  9. Trump’s Muslim Ban Forces IC to Conduct Actual Assessment of Terror Threats
  10. The Undie Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Life Coached “Who Moved My Cheese” Weeks before Jihad
  11. Anwar al-Awlaki: Two Days from Finalized 302 to OLC Authorization for Execution
  12. Susan Collins Implies She Could Be a Swing Vote in SSCI’s Investigation of the Russian Hack
  13. Robert Eatinger Brags that CIA Complies with Law Passed 2 Years Ago — But Will It Really Limit CIA?
  14. Ask Uncle Ed 3A
  15. Ask Uncle Ed 3B
  16. The Tripartite (At Least) Structure of the Russian Hack Investigation
  17. Why We Should Remain Skeptical of the Five (!!) Congressional Investigations into the Russian Hack
  18. Stephen Miller’s and Trump’s Gross Re-Politicization of DOJ
  19. Open Thread: The Scream
  20. Of Spies and Casinos
  21. Long Island Iced Tea
  22. David Ignatius’ Curious Role in the Mike Flynn Story
  23. Four Details about Surveillance and the Flynn Ouster
  24. Ask Uncle Ed 2
  25. In Attempting to Justify Trump Muslim Ban, Propaganda Outlet Proves Inanity of Iran, Sudan Inclusion
  26. Ninth Circuit Trims Executive’s Expansive Claims to Be Able Pixie Dust Executive Orders
  27. Why Are NINE Sources Coming Forward Now on Flynn’s Conversations with Russia?
  28. Democrats Demand DOJ Release the Information that Has Christopher Steele Hiding for His Life
  29. Charles Cooper, Who Sanctioned Delayed Notification of Covert Ops to Congress, Reportedly to Be Solicitor General
  30. US Indicts Hal Martin — But Offers No Hint He’s the Source for Shadow Brokers, Or Anyone Else
  31. Nevertheless, She Persisted
  32. How Hal Martin Stole 75% of NSA’s Hacking Tools: NSA Failed to Implement Required Security Fixes for Three Years after Snowden
  33. The Future of Work Part 4: The Kinds Of Jobs That Are At Risk
  34. Trump’s War on Some Terror Directed Only at White European Christians
  35. BuzzFeed Now Looking to Institutional Dems to Police a Phantom Surge of Lefty Fake News
  36. The Folks Who Picked the Stupid Seven Banned Countries Say the Muslim Ban Is Stupid
  37. John Yoo Wishes Trump Abused Executive Authority More Effectively
  38. Super Bowl 2017 Trash Talk
  39. Updates from the Russian Front
  40. The Sickening Decay of Lamar Alexander
  41. The Three Most Believed Fake News Stories of the Election (Tested by Stanford) Favored Hillary
  42. The FSB Purge: Two Narratives
  43. Donald Trump, Making Canada Great Again!
  44. The Latest “Fake” News Tizzy: Garbage In, Garbage Out
  45. On Sally Yates’ Stand and the Session’s Nomination

January 2017

  1. Trump Fulfills Another Campaign Promise: Kills 8-Year Old American Girl
  2. The Ironies of the EO 12333 Sharing Expansion for Obama and Trump
  3. On Russian Treason
  4. Politicians Did Not Get Rich From Hollowing Out the Economy
  5. The Problems with Pompeo: A Willingness to Use Information on Americans Russia Hacked and Shared with Trump
  6. NFL Championship Sunday Trash Talk
  7. BuzzFeed Discovers We’re Not the Rubes It Has Claimed, But Insists We Still Have a Fake News Problem
  8. FISA Is Not a Magic Word
  9. Ask Uncle Ed
  10. One-Fifth of Documents Edward Snowden Stole Were Blank
  11. On Wikileaks and Chelsea Manning’s Commutation
  12. 12333 Info Sharing Working Thread
  13. Brennan Makes Even Crazier Plausible Deniability Claims about Trump Dossier
  14. The Significance of the December 13 Trump Dossier Report
  15. On “Fake News”
  16. 2017 Divisional Playoff Weekend Trash Talk
  17. The Trump Dossier Alleges DNC Insiders Were Involved in Anti-Clinton Operation
  18. The Released Trump Dossier Is Not the Complete Dossier
  19. How Did the IC Allegedly Remain Unaware of a Dossier Widely Shopped in DC?
  20. The Democrats Newfound Love for Russian Intelligence Product
  21. Two Cautions on the Russian Hack of RNC Servers
  22. Switzerland, Swaziland? IC Gets IP Geography Wrong in Russia Report
  23. The The Future of Work Part 3: An Example of Artificial Intelligence
  24. Wildcard Weekend, Kitties Prayers Welcome
  25. The Declassified Russian Hack Report
  26. On the Joint Analysis Review, AKA the False Tor Node Positives Report
  27. On the DNC-FBI Spat Over the DNC Server
  28. Whither Shadow Brokers in Discussions of Foreign Hacks of America?
  29. Thom Tillis Reminds James Clapper that the US Tampers in Elections, Too
  30. In His Last Words Before Senate Armed Services, Clapper Warns against Congressional “Micromanagement”
  31. Did NYT’s Mandarin Translations Cause Trouble for Apple?
  32. Trump Raises the Axe over the Intelligence Community, Again
  33. Did NSA Just Reveal Its China BIOS Story Was Made Up?
  34. Russia Hacked the DNC. But What, Specifically, Did GRU Do?
  35. On CrowdStrike’s Curiously Timed Report Claiming Newfound “High” Confidence in Its GRU Attribution
  36. The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are — Oops! No Russians!
  37. The Dragnet Donald Trump Will Wield Is Not Just the Section 215 One
  38. A Deep Dive on the Obama Response to Russian DNC Hack (and Theft and Harassment)
  39. Is Trump’s Revelation the Same as Craig Murray’s Revelation: An American Cut-Out?
  40. Worthless College Football and Meaningless NFL Week 17

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