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December 2020

  1. Four Years Ago Today, Russia Told Trump the Deep State Was Targeting Trump Along with Russia
  2. Who Fucked Over His Country Worse in 2020, BoJo or Trump?
  3. Emmet Sullivan’s Revenge: Rupert Murdoch’s Rag Calls Mike Flynn’s Actions “Tantamount to Treason”
  4. Disaster Democracy: Can Something Be Salvaged from Trump’s Meltdown?
  5. The Three Types (Thus Far) of Trump Mueller Pardons
  6. Merry Christmas!
  7. Footnote: The Day Before Roger Stone Received a Pre-Written Pardon, He Lied about the Ongoing Investigation into His Conspiracy with Russia
  8. Like Glenn Greenwald, Roger Stone Links a Pardon for Edward Snowden to a Corrupt Pardon for Julian Assange
  9. On Bill Barr’s Last Day, Trump Commits the Crime Barr Affirmed in His Confirmation Hearing
  10. The Next Gang of Thieves and War Criminals
  11. The WaPo Solution to the NYT Problem: Laura Poitras’ Misrepresentation of Assange’s 18th Charge
  12. Boiling Frog Journalism: The Collective Yawn as Trump’s Pardoned Foreign Agent Plots a Coup
  13. The Hack or Attack Debate: Answer Old Questions While Waiting to Learn Enough to Answer That One
  14. Trash Talk Is Back, And It Is Max!
  15. Three Inconvenient Truths about a Hypothetical Trump Pardon for Julian Assange
  16. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Steve Bannon?
  17. Poor Donald Trump Got Dumped
  18. Billy Barr Makes Excuses for His C- Durham Investigation Report Card
  19. The Price of “Freedom”: What Mike Flynn Squandered in the Two Years He Would Have Served Probation
  20. Ron Johnson Grasping at Chum
  21. Tom Bossert Gives Trump the Advice Trump Refused Four Years Ago
  22. Organized Crime
  23. A Modest Proposal: Include Lindsey Graham’s Threats against Brad Raffensperger in any Special Counsel Mandate
  24. Missing the National Security Crises for the Trump Temper Tantrums
  25. Index And One Last Introduction To The Public And Its Problems By John Dewey
  26. The Claim that Billy Barr Didn’t Release Any Investigative Information During the Election Is False
  27. Bill Barr Is Resigned to Spending Time with His Family
  28. After Trump Spent Four Years Inviting Russia to Hack the US, Russia Allegedly Did Just That
  29. A Most Ordinary Passing of A Most Extraordinary Writer
  30. The Forgotten Coffee Boy Errands
  31. Trump Prepares to Pardon Massive Tax Cheat Paul Manafort While Claiming that Suspected Midscale Tax Cheat Hunter Biden Disqualifies Joe
  32. The Mistaken Presumptions of Virtually All Discussions of a Future Trump Prosecution
  33. Republicans Push to Punish Eric Swalwell because He Didn’t Sell Out the Country Like They Did
  34. Steve Bannon Hires a Pardon Broker (and Rudy Giuliani Lawyer) to Replace His Competent Lawyer
  35. Joshua Schulte Undermines the WikiLeaks Claim to Publish “Whistleblowers”
  36. In His Mike Flynn Opinion, Emmet Sullivan Made a Finding of Fact Against Billy Barr’s New Reality
  37. Before He Mooted DOJ’s Motions in the Mike Flynn Case, Emmet Sullivan Treated DOJ’s Authentication as Official
  38. Judge Sullivan Calls Bullshit on DOJ’s Pretextual Reasons for Blowing Up the Mike Flynn Prosecution
  39. Judge Sullivan Uses Mike Flynn Dismissal to Emphasize His Own Authority
  40. He Slipped The Surly Bonds Of Earth: RIP Chuck Yeager
  41. The Intercept’s Silence about Edward Snowden’s Inclusion in Julian Assange’s Charges
  42. On Nappies and Law Enforcement Spying
  43. 20 Months: A Comparison of the Mueller and Durham Investigations
  44. John Durham and the First Fight over a Doctored MemCon of Trump’s Meetings with Russia
  45. America The Can-Do Nation
  46. Failsons and Kraken Conspiracies: Three Mike Flynn Hypotheticals Trump May Have Tried to Preemptively Pardon
  47. The Clinesmith Sentencing Memos: Politically Biased Data In, Politically Biased Data Out
  48. John Durham Has Unaltered Copies of the Documents that Got Altered in the Flynn Docket
  49. A Mike Pence Pardon of Trump for Flynn’s Pardon Would Obstruct the Mueller Investigation
  50. The Facts “Known to” the Mueller Investigation: Judge Sullivan Should Demand the December 22, 2016 Flynn Transcript
  51. The Last Trickle of the Mueller 302s before the Biden Storm
  52. Bill Barr Hid Evidence of a Bribery for Pardon Investigation During the Election
  53. The Investigations into the Russian Investigation Have Lasted 69% Longer than the Russian Investigation Itself
  54. Hours before Trump Pardoned Flynn, “Phil” Weighed in a Pardon
  55. Four Things Judge Emmet Sullivan Should Do in the Wake of Flynn’s Pardon
  56. Trump Attempts to Invalidate the Mueller Investigation

November 2020

  1. The Trump Team Covered Up Flynn’s Calls in Real Time
  2. Waiting on the Flynn Pardon Paperwork: What Happened with the Roger Stone Commutation
  3. Kraken Clemency: Did Trump Issue the Flynn Pardon Wednesday To Avoid Potential Conflict with Sidney Powell’s Batshittery??
  4. When Secret Servers Bump Up against Prosecutorial Independence and Following the Evidence
  5. Thanksgiving Day Cheer
  6. Through Turkey Giblets to the Stars
  7. Mike Flynn’s Son Invoked His Fifth Amendment Privilege Early in the Investigation into His Father
  8. White House Statement Suggests Flynn Has Been Pardoned ONLY For the Charge He Pled Guilty To
  9. Even Bill Barr (in His Confirmation Hearing) Agreed that Trump Just Committed a Crime
  10. Trump Pardons an Undisclosed Agent of Turkey Along with a Thanksgiving Bird
  11. Roger Stone Takes Georgia, and the Senate, Hostage
  12. Shirkey and Chatfield: No One Else Was in the Room Where It Happened
  13. How Ric Grenell and Sidney Powell Have Made It Easier to Prosecute Donald Trump for Conspiring with Russia
  14. We Need a New Common American Story
  15. The DeVoses and a Pence Pardon for Trump
  16. “Normal Transitions:” KT McFarland Sent Tom Bossert to “Spy” on Lisa Monaco
  17. Rudy the Dripper: The Vicious Cycle of Dead-Ender Propagandists Feeding Bullshit to Tribalist Republicans
  18. Three Things: About Emily W. Murphy, GSA Administrator
  19. Donald Trump Was Personally Involved in Flynn’s “Collusion” with Russia to Protect Israel
  20. Mike Flynn’s “Wiped” Phone
  21. Peter Debbins Pleads
  22. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda: Billy Barr Goes Soft on Crime
  23. Rudy’s Coup
  24. After Wailing That No One Was Reporting on the Hunter Biden Laptop, Glenn Greenwald Is Now Wailing because Ben Collins Did
  25. “Looking Forward” Will Be Harder for President Biden than It Was for President Obama
  26. Sidney Powell Implicates Barbara Ledeen in Her Effort to Undermine Democracy
  27. Ockham’s Cut: How the Andrew McCabe Notes Were Doctored
  28. Trump’s Pardon Jenga, Starting with the Julian Assange Building Block
  29. Convergence: Mueller Obstruction, Ukrainian Favors, and DOJ’s Altered Documents
  30. Andrew McCabe’s Comments about Trump More Likely Reference What an Easy Mark Russia Thinks He Is than Any (Unexpected) Thing He Did
  31. Roger Stone’s 2016 “Stop the Steal” Effort May Have Been Coordinated with Russia
  32. Gate-Keeper for Propaganda Kash Patel Failed His First Test as DOD Chief of Staff
  33. Some Details of Mueller’s GRU Indictment You Probably Missed
  34. The GOP Lawsuit in Michigan May Include Sworn Admissions from People Who Were Illegally Present
  35. Those Complicit in Trump’s False Story about the Election Are Willingly Damaging This Country
  36. Palace Intrigue: Trump Prepares His Consolation Prize for Vladimir Putin
  37. The Last Time Billy Barr Ordered a Politicized Investigation, DOJ Altered Documents for Public Consumption
  38. Afraid? Who, Us? We’re Not Afraid!
  39. Don Jr’s Demand to “Declassify Everything” and the Secret Grand Jury Information His Buddy Shared about Julian Assange
  40. Trump’s Enablers Are Mistaking an Insurgency for an Off-Ramp
  41. It Didn’t Go Away: COVID, COVID, COVID
  42. A Woman. Of Color. From California. Is the Vice-President Elect
  43. Goodbye Earl Trump
  44. Congratulations, America — Once More, with Feeling [UPDATE-1]
  45. Distraction and Disinformation: The Stakes of Lessons Not Learned
  46. Steve Bannon and His Competent Lawyers Part Ways
  47. Congratulations, America! Welcome President-Elect and VP-Elect Biden and Harris!
  48. Braced for Impact
  49. Election Day Countdown: There’s Got to be An Afternoon After [UPDATE-1]
  50. The Mueller Charging Decisions Through Ratfucker Rashomon’s Eyes
  51. Election Day Countdown: Zero Day (Or Is It ‘0-day’?) [UPDATE-2]
  52. We’re So Not Through Here
  53. What Comes After America
  54. Unsealed Mueller Report Passages Confirm the Then-Ongoing Investigation into Roger Stone
  55. Election Day Countdown: Better Than 1 Day Left [UPDATE-2]
  56. Who Will Be Forced to Walk the Plank on November 4th?
  57. Bill Barr’s DOJ Protecting Sean Hannity the Cut-Out
  58. Election Day Countdown: 2 Days, 2 Much 2 Go
  59. “Show Me the Metadata:” A Forensic Tie Between Shadow Brokers and Guccifer 2.0
  60. Election Day Countdown: 3 Days, 3 Things

October 2020

  1. Last Trash Talk Before The Election
  2. Child Rapist George Nader Introduced Dick Cheney and Ahmad Chalabi
  3. Election Day Countdown: 4 Days
  4. What Would John Dewey Say About Court Packing?
  5. Glenn Greenwald’s Self Hack: “I could go on and on”
  6. Lindsey Graham Responds to News of Potential Ongoing Crime by Promising to Ignore It
  7. Trump’s Slow-Motion Cover-Up of Erdogan Corruption and Jeff Sessions’ Meeting with Mike Flynn’s Clients
  8. More Reason to Question the Government’s Treatment of Andrew McCabe’s Notes
  9. Election Day Countdown: 5 Days
  10. Doesn’t Anyone in the Media Read the Actual Election Laws?
  11. More Irregularities with the Andrew McCabe Notes: Bleg for Graphic Design Analysis
  12. Election Day Countdown: 6 Days
  13. The Altered Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok Documents Were Packaged for Circulation
  14. DOJ Falsely Claimed that McCabe and Strzok Confirmed that the Content of Their Notes Was Not Altered
  15. Shorter DOJ: We Made Shit Up … Please Free Mike Flynn
  16. (Part of) What I Shared with the FBI
  17. The Government Agent Who Altered Andrew McCabe’s Notes Remains Unnamed
  18. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson Produce a 285-Page Confession They’re Unfamiliar with the Public Record
  19. Ten Days To Go Trash Talk
  20. From Failed Whistleblower to Journalistic Source: Natalie Sours Edwards Mounts a Credible Public Interest Defense
  21. Judge Emmet Sullivan Just Created Four Big Problems for DOJ in the Mike Flynn Case
  22. 675 Days after Mike Flynn Blew Up His Probation Plea Deal, We Learn There Never Was an “Original 302”
  23. 2020 Presidential Debates: The Battle of Nashville [UPDATE-3]
  24. Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Guccifer 2.0 the Go-Between
  25. Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Getting the “Highest Level of Government” to Free Julian Assange
  26. GRU Adopted the Identity of Two UK Journalists to Phish the OPCW
  27. Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Trolling for Russia
  28. Dr. Fauci Has No More Fucks Left To Give
  29. The Public In Dewey’s The Public And Its Problems
  30. Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Steve Bannon and Dirty Tricks
  31. Steve Bannon, Guccifer 2.0, Glenn Greenwald, and Me: How Glenn Greenwald Defends “Smear Artist & Cowards”
  32. Docket Tea Leaves: Manafort, Bannon, and Flynn
  33. Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Roger Stone’s Mid-Burglary Foreknowledge
  34. Tuscaloosa Gets The Birmingham Blues
  35. Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Jerome Corsi’s Prescience about the Content of John Podesta’s Emails
  36. “That’s Rudy.” Trump Proves, Yet Again, That He Would Just Ignore a Defensive Briefing
  37. 2020 Presidential Debates: Missing ‘The Capital of Latin America’ [UPDATE-1]
  38. SCOTUS Nomination: Coney Barrett’s Beeswax and Goose Quills
  39. Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Accessing Hollywood Cover-Ups of the Russian Attribution
  40. The Frothy Right Proves Trump Buried 7 Details of Russian Outreach by Wailing about Carter Page
  41. Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Trump’s Direct Line to the Rat-Fucking
  42. SCOTUS Nomination: Amy Coney Barrett’s 2nd Day Before Senate Judiciary Committee
  43. Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Four Stories about Roger Stone (Introduction)
  44. Roger Stone Was Parroting That Russian Intelligence Report a Month before FBI Got It
  45. Roger Stone’s Remarkable Interest in Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy
  46. The Frothy Right Embraces CIA’s Unmasking the Identities of Political Candidates
  47. Jeff Sessions HAD Shut Down the Investigation into Russian Interference
  48. Government Caught Between a Recusal Motion and Desperation
  49. The Desperation of the Jeffrey Jensen Investigation Already Made Clear that John Durham Won’t Indict
  50. Sidney Powell Switches Her FARA Villain Mid-Stream
  51. Yet Another Warning from Michigan: FBI Busted Plot to Kidnap “That Woman”
  52. Sidney Powell Falsely Claims All Jeffrey Jensen’s Errors Have Been Corrected
  53. The “Scanned” Andrew McCabe Notes Weren’t [Just] “Scanned”
  54. 2020 Vice Presidential Debate: In the Land of the Shoshone
  55. Sidney Powell Submits Evidence Proving Materiality of Flynn’s Lies
  56. Sidney Powell Has Become No More than a Channel for the Fevered Rantings of Her Twitter Followers
  57. McCabe Casts Doubt on the Date Added to His Notes, Too
  58. DOJ Admits Jeffrey Jensen’s Team Added Erroneous Date to Peter Strzok’s Notes, Asks for Mulligan
  59. DOJ Decides Leaked, Inaccurate DOJ IG Materials Are Awful
  60. Van Halen
  61. Federalist Society Super-Spreader Plausible Deniability
  62. Bill Barnett’s Second Gratuitous Swipe at the Mueller Investigation Collapses
  63. October COVID Surprise: So Much Bullshit, So Little Time [UPDATE-4]
  64. What A Week Trash Talk
  65. Andrew McCabe Delays Testimony to SJC, Calling In-Person Testimony a “Grave Safety Risk”
  66. October COVID Surprise, Part Deaux [UPDATE-4]
  67. DOJ Has Submitted Proof They Knew the January 5, 2017 Meeting Took Place on January 5, 2017
  68. Erik Prince Was Like a “Kid at Christmas” When He Met the Sanctioned Russian Bearing Normalized Business Relations
  69. October Surprise: Didn’t Have COVID-19 on the Bingo Card [UPDATE-2]
  70. DOJ Hid Material Comments about Brandon Van Grack from Judge Sullivan in the William Barnett 302
  71. With a Charitable Description that Bill Barnett Was “Confus[ed]” Jim Comey Undercuts the Agent’s Entire Interview
  72. Over 72 Hours, Trump and Chuck Grassley Provide Emmet Sullivan Proof that Peter Strzok’s Notes Were Altered for Political Reasons

September 2020

  1. Robert Mueller Insinuates Andrew Weissmann Had Incomplete Information
  2. Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, and Mike Lee Exhibit Utter Ignorance about FBI Certification on FISA Applications
  3. The Proud Boys Have Already Been Used to Intimidate Those Holding Trump Accountable — and Bill Barr Has Protected Them
  4. 2020 Presidential Debates: Station Hope [UPDATE-1]
  5. On a Key Issue in Mike Flynn’s Case — which FBI Agent to Believe — DOJ Argued against DOJ
  6. DOJ Adopts a Third Way of Dating Undated Notes
  7. DOJ’s NSL Report Proves that William Barnett Misrepresented the Evidence Implicating Mike Flynn
  8. DOJ [or Flynn’s Team] Altered an Exhibit in the Mike Flynn Case to Support a False Smear of Joe Biden
  9. In Letter Confirming DOJ Altered Peter Strzok’s Notes, His Lawyer Identifies Additional Privacy Act Violations
  10. Roger Stone Demanded Lists from Rick Gates at Least Nine Times During the 2016 Election
  11. Leaks on Top of Leaks Related to Roger Stone
  12. In His 302, William Barnett Admitted to Saving Trump [While Ignoring at Least Four Pieces of Evidence Implicating Him]
  13. The Jeffrey Jensen “Investigation:” Post-It Notes and Other Irregularities
  14. The Frothy Right Finally Finds a Counterintelligence Investigation They Love!!!
  15. Sidney Powell Accuses William Barnett of Committing “Outrageous, Deliberate Misconduct” and Kenneth Kohl Hides Evidence that Brandon Van Grack Did Not
  16. Billy Barr Releases 302 that Proves View of Pro Mike Flynn Agent Held Sway in Mueller Report Conclusions
  17. Why a Clinton Foundation/Crossfire Hurricane Comparison Might Backfire
  18. “A Digital Pearl Harbor:” The Ways in Which the Vault 7 Leak Could Have Compromised US and British Assets’ Identities
  19. The Still-Secret Cultivation of Alex Jones by Guccifer 2.0
  20. A Month after Trump Learned that Mueller Knew of the Pardon Deal, Cassandra Fairbanks Learned the Pardon Was Off
  21. The Public And Its Problems By John Dewey
  22. Randy Credico Refuses to Answer Whether Roger Stone Called Him about an Assange Pardon on November 9, 2016
  23. Wherein WikiLeaks Brags about Entertaining a Pardon Dangle from a Suspected Russian Asset and a White Supremacist
  24. Really Big Girl
  25. The Closed Mueller Investigations: Erik Prince Skates on the Seychelles
  26. After Bill Barr Minimized Roger Stone’s Threat against Amy Berman Jackson, Emmet Sullivan Got Threatened by a Mike Flynn Supporter
  27. “The Buck Stops at the Top:” In January, Bill Barr’s DOJ Decided the Correct Decision Was to Send Mike Flynn to Prison
  28. Bill Barr Defended Yevgeniy Prigozhin Last Night
  29. Bill Barr’s Screed Is About Mike Flynn, Nora Dannehy, and Robert Mueller
  30. In at Least One Interview, Paul Manafort Was Not Asked How Stone Planned to Save Trump’s Ass
  31. Paul Manafort’s Claims about WikiLeaks in His September 13, 2018 Interview
  32. Snowden Lies about Outreach about a Pardon and Puts a Target on Daniel Everette Hale’s Back
  33. HHS Propgandist Michael Caputo Is the Rat-Fucker’s Protégé
  34. Beware DOJ Inspectors General Bearing Investigations, Aaron Zelinsky Edition
  35. Catherine Herridge Attempts to Relaunch Bullshit Conspiracies Answered by Peter Strzok’s Book
  36. “Was Wiped:” A Grammar Lesson for the Frothers
  37. The Minh Quang Pham Precedent to the Julian Assange Extradition
  38. NFL Sunday Trash Talk
  39. Roger Stone’s Call for Donald Trump to Steal the Election Simply Continues His Efforts from 2016
  40. The US Asks Spain to Pin Down the UC Global Accusations before Responding
  41. Nora Dannehy Just Gave Emmet Sullivan the Evidence of Extreme Abuse to Sentence Mike Flynn
  42. Glenn Greenwald Moves to Close the Deal on Trump’s Election Help Quid Pro Quo
  43. Judge Sullivan Amicus John Gleeson Lays Out How DOJ Is Arguing Against DOJ, then Invokes Barr’s Other Interference
  44. 19 Years On
  45. No Honor Among Troll Faces: The Latest Lawfare against Prigozhin’s Trolls
  46. Racism and Russia: The Topics Brian Murphy Claims He Was Ordered to Lie About
  47. Devout Catholic Bill Barr Stakes the Credibility of His Institution on Shielding an Accused Rapist
  48. This is Impossible, Part Two: Loving From a Distance
  49. Who, What, When, Why: Trump Has Paid $500K to Silence Keith Schiller
  50. Julian Assange’s First Witness, Journalism Professor Mark Feldstein, Professes to Be Unfamiliar with the Public Record on Assange
  51. The US Government Formed a New Understanding of WikiLeaks after 2016
  52. The Latest Stinky 702 Opinion Bodes Poorly for the Next One
  53. Dead Flowers On Kentucky Derby Day
  54. Interpol Drops Red Notice against Yevgeniy Prigozhin Even Though US Charges Remain
  55. 185,963
  56. Treasury Threatens to Prosecute Reporters Trying to Reveal What Rod Rosenstein and Richard Burr Would Not
  57. Why Read Old Books?
  58. Basaaly Moalin Wins His Appeal — But Gets Nothing
  59. Andrew Miller Was [Probably] Questioned about Someone He Knew Under a Different Name
  60. It’s Not the Four Year Old Counterintelligence Investigation intro Trump We Need to Be Most Worried About — It’s the Ones Bill Barr May Have Killed
  61. Billy Barr Released Someone with a History of Conspiring from Prison to Home Confinement
  62. Billy Barr Signs a Memo That Wouldn’t Have Helped Carter Page
  63. Three Things: Breathing, Thinking, Mating and COVID-19
  64. Emmet Sullivan’s “Appropriate Dispatch” May Extend past November 3

August 2020

  1. DC Circuit Sends Flynn Back to Judge Sullivan’s Courtroom
  2. Returning to Venue in the Peter Debbins Case
  3. Trump Told One Key Truth at His Convention
  4. Both Rod Rosenstein and Richard Burr Chose Not to Investigate Trump’s Biggest Counterintelligence Vulnerability
  5. Franks A Lot
  6. Even after Learning the FBI Was Investigating, Trump Berated Flynn for Not Being Obsequious Enough to Putin
  7. In the middle of all the 2020, Belarusians started fighting for themselves.
  8. RNCC 2020: ‘Profoundly’ WTAF
  9. Kevin Clinesmith Ordered to Cooperate with People Not on John Durham’s Team
  10. A Tale of Two COVID Scandals: Phil Hogan and Donald Trump
  11. Former Daily Caller Editor Reveals He Was Forced to Publish Oleg Deripaska
  12. Trump’s Destruction of Government Is Personal
  13. MMT and Mainstream Economics
  14. RNCC 2020: Night of a Thousand WTAFs
  15. SSCI’s Asymmetric Interest in Partisan Use of Oppo Research
  16. Place Your Bets: What’s Trump’s October Surprise? [UPDATE-2]
  17. The EDVA Venue and the Peter Debbins Indictment
  18. Running Thread of emptywheel’s Running Threads on the SSCI Report
  19. Crowdsourced Timeline: Torching the USPS [Work in Progress, UPDATE-2]
  20. Another Trump Campaign Manager Indicted for Money Laundering
  21. SSCI’s Timidity on Trump Tower Moscow
  22. SSCI Confirms that Mueller Considered CFAA Charges for Don Jr.
  23. Trump Tried to Claim Privilege Over a Document Flynn Claimed to Not Remember
  24. Work In Progress: Saving the USPS
  25. “These Actions Have Targeted Not Only against Russia, But Also Against the President Elect”
  26. Billy Barr’s DOJ Throws the Book at Someone Not Named Mike Flynn for Reneging on a Plea Agreement
  27. Page’s Intelligence Officers, Plural, Versus His Serial Willingness to Be Recruited
  28. How Durham Gets to Intent on False Statements with Kevin Clinesmith
  29. Reviews of The Deficit Myth
  30. The Clinesmith Information Suggests that John Durham Misunderstands His Investigation
  31. There’s Lots of Reason to Think Steve Bannon Lied; But He May Also Have Told the Truth, Once
  32. Bill Barr Deems 11 Months to Charge False Statements, “the Proper Pace”
  33. Three Things: They Look Like Phones [UPDATE-1]
  34. Not the Right Kind of Monster, Says the Racist [UPDATE-2]
  35. A Newfound Obsession with Paul Manafort’s iCloud Account
  36. Jeff Wall: It Would Cause Attorney General Barr Irreparable Harm If He Had to Reveal His Secret Reason He Moved to Dismiss Flynn’s Prosecution
  37. Semi-Open Thread: Biden’s Vice President Will Be… [UPDATE-4]
  38. Hurricane COVID-19: GOP’s Fiscal Restraint Pisses into the Winds
  39. Trump’s Latest Executive Orders: Head Fakes and Head Games
  40. Social Security And Other Entitlements
  41. GOP Senate Walked Out of DC for a Reason: Voter Foreclosure, 2020 Edition [UPDATE-1]
  42. DOJ’s Accounting of Its FISA Errors Cannot Be Compared to the Carter Page Report
  43. Three Things: Death, Death, and More Death
  44. In Previously Undisclosed December 2018 Interview, Jared Kushner Got Warned Falsely Claiming to Not Recall Is Still a Lie
  45. The Maryland US Attorney’s Office Included Erik Prince in a FOIA Response on the Stone Sentencing
  46. Killer Clown Attacks American’s Freedoms…and Dr. Fauci

July 2020

  1. Ben Wittes Gets Stung by the Trump Effect
  2. Three Things: Look Over There, Not at Trump’s Failures [UPDATE-1]
  3. Full DC Circuit Shifts Mike Flynn Analysis Back to What It Should Be: Unusual Remedy
  4. This is Impossible, Part One: Climbing the Mountain
  5. Bill Barr Repeatedly Lied, Under Oath, about Judge Amy Berman Jackson
  6. Bill Barr Testifies He’s Unfamiliar with the Obstruction Portion of the Mueller Report
  7. Billy Barr Admits, for the Third and Fourth Time, that He Intervenes without Knowing the Facts
  8. HJC Should Ask Bill Barr Why It Would Do Irreparable Harm if He Had to Explain His Actions in the Flynn Case
  9. How Chuck Ross Helped Make Roger Stone a Felon
  10. MMT on International Trade
  11. Joe Pientka Warned Trump to Be Worried about People on His Periphery While Flynn Was Signing a Deal with Turkey
  12. The Absurdity of the Present: Stealing Vaccine Research
  13. Ceci N’est Pas La Violence: The Treachery of Chad Wolf
  14. DOJ Claims Some Ongoing Investigation Mueller Report Redactions Pertain to the the Assange Prosecution
  15. Impoverished Teachers Or The Rich Bitches Of Professional Sports?
  16. Earlier This Year, Billy Barr Minimized Threats of Violence against Judges
  17. Task and Countertask: The Interview of Christopher Steele’s Primary Subsource
  18. And the Good Troublemaking Goes On
  19. The Good Trouble of John Lewis
  20. Lindsey Graham Provides Yet More Proof that Peter Strzok Didn’t Have It In for Trump
  21. “Hinky:” NPR Permitted Billy Barr to Lie More than Once
  22. Trump’s Rump Coverer’s Other Mission: Militarized Voter Suppression [UPDATE-3]
  23. The Wonkish Myth of Crowding Out
  24. Roger Stone Invented a New Cover Story Rather than Defend Himself at Trial
  25. Roger Stone’s Flip Story Evolves for the Cameras
  26. Reggie Walton Seems Interested Revealing Some of Mueller’s Referrals
  27. Credico Feared Stone Would Go to Prison; Corsi’s Lawyer Fears He Would Not
  28. Trump Prepares to Do Something Even Billy Barr Has Said Might Be Obstruction
  29. Sidney Powell Proves She (and Everyone Else, including Timothy Shea) Was Wrong about the Logan Act
  30. June Bug Goes to Ireland
  31. Happy ‘PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT’ Day! [UPDATE-5]
  32. The National Debt Is Sooooooo Big
  33. The Growing WikiLeaks Conspiracy [Indictment]
  34. The Statue Donald Trump Has Overturned
  35. Still Dreaming of the American Dream
  36. Maybe Trump Really Is Never Going To Leave
  37. The Fourth Ahead and The Forgotten

June 2020

  1. Three Things: There Is Really Only One Thing
  2. Reflections on The Deficit Myth
  3. The Government Argues that Edward Snowden Is a Recruiting Tool
  4. Three Things: Bounties, Bounties, Bounce [UPDATE-1]
  5. The Chicks Are Owed An Apology
  6. Jim Jordan, Killer Clown
  7. Billy Barr’s OLC Declinations
  8. Sidney Powell’s Great Time Machine of Electoral Gaslighting
  9. The Superseding Assange Indictment Tidies Up CFAA Charges
  10. HJC Democrats Do Little to Limit Jim Jordan’s Assault on Public Health and Rule of Law
  11. Three Things: Numbers, Hearings and Racist Code
  12. Citing Presumption of Regularity, DC Circuit Rules against Emmet Sullivan to Prevent Embarrassing Billy Barr
  13. The World’s Biggest Donald Trump Fan Believes Donald Trump Is Lying about COVID
  14. Even the First Roger Stone Sentencing Memo Was Politicized
  15. MMT On Inflation
  16. Trump’s Muslim Ban Ignored the Most Dangerous
  17. On Rod Rosenstein’s Professed Unfamiliarity with the Mueller Report
  18. The Tussle in Tulsa: A Retrospective
  19. Rudy Giuliani’s Actions Remain Under Investigation
  20. Friday Night Half-Assed Massacre: The Attempted Firing of SDNY’s Berman
  21. John Bolton Versus Navy Versus Egan
  22. A Tale of Two National Security Advisors
  23. Mike Flynn Prosecutor Jocelyn Ballantine Tries to Square DOJ’s Crooked Circle
  24. Despite Rapid Growth In Civil Rights Tourism, Montgomery Remains Firmly In The Grip Of Racist White Men
  25. Debunking The Deficit Myth
  26. The Other Things the Press Missed by Ignoring the Details Revealed in the Joshua Schulte Prosecution
  27. Three Things: SCOTUS on LGBTQ+ Discrimination, Qualified Immunity, Gun Rights
  28. Trash Talk: The NBA’s Insane Money Grab Scheme
  29. COVID-19 Exposes Migrant Worker Conditions Amounting To Modern Day Slavery In Florida Agriculture
  30. Jeff Wall Admits that Any Scrutiny of DOJ’s Motion to Dismiss Flynn Prosecution Will Cause Irreparable Harm to Bill Barr
  31. Setting the Scene: Today’s Flynn Hearing
  32. The Deficit Myth By Stephanie Kelton: Introduction and Index
  33. Appointed Amicus John Gleeson Argues DOJ Engaged in Gross Prosecutorial Misconduct in Moving to Dismiss Flynn Prosecution
  34. Judge Reggie Walton Has Questions about the Non-Stone Redactions in the Mueller Report
  35. Defendant Barr’s Flip-Flops Finally Attract Press Attention
  36. The Why of “Defund the Police” [UPDATE]
  37. Three Things: A for “Antifa”, B for Brutality, C for Commit (Murder)
  38. The Fog of Protest
  39. The Fabulous Emptywheel Music Blog: Country AND Western Edition!
  40. When Billy Barr Called a Press Conference to Target Non-Terrorists Rather than Brag about the Right Wing Terrorists FBI Caught
  41. Tanks for the Memories
  42. If the Steele Dossier Is Disinformation, Republicans Have Become Willful Participants in the Operation
  43. The Father of the DEA Dragnet Sics It on Free Speech
  44. Antifa Ain’t That
  45. Three Things: Loads of Bricks, White Chicks, Made-up Schtick
  46. In a Motion Claiming that Appointing an Amicus Is “Unprecedented,” Billy Barr Argues Against Billy Barr Twice More
  47. In Opposing Mandamus, Judge Sullivan Notes Schrodinger’s Materiality
  48. Mueller Soft-Pedaled the Mike Flynn Exchanges with Sergey Kislyak about Israel
  49. 105,746

May 2020

  1. Assaults on Free Speech and the Cities We Didn’t See
  2. Is The Time Of Keisha Lance Bottoms Now?
  3. “The Boss is Aware:” Trump Learned about Mike Flynn’s Conversations with Sergey Kislyak in Real Time
  4. From before Day One Mike Flynn Made It Russia and Trump Versus Democrats
  5. In Dire Need of Creative Extremists
  6. Trey Gowdy Argues There’s No Way Mike Flynn Would Read Anything Trey Gowdy Wrote
  7. Trump’s America: Racism, Imperious Police and CNN Under Arrest in Minneapolis
  8. Stealing Elections: The Underlying Assumption behind Billy Barr’s Flip-Flop on the Materiality of Flynn’s Lies
  9. On the Two ECs Opening the Investigation into Mike Flynn
  10. In a Bid to Remain Relevant, PCLOB Will Treat Carter Page as a Suspected Terrorist
  11. Ric Grenell Confesses He Was Worse than Samantha Power at the UN
  12. The Eight Investigations into the Russian Investigation Have Already Lasted 47% Longer than the Investigation Itself
  13. Is COVID-19 Why Florida Has About 1300 More Pneumonia Deaths This Season Than Average Over Previous Five?
  14. Adam Schiff Makes Clear FBI Is Using Section 215 Like the 2014 Exception
  15. Negotiating a New Routine in the Time of Pandemic
  16. Judge Emmet Sullivan Makes A Serious Holiday Move on DOJ and Flynn
  17. “In truth, I never lied;” Mike Flynn’s Materially Conflicting Sworn Statements
  18. Special Trash Talk: Frank Zappa and Opera Chorus. Really.
  19. How to (Not) Hydroxychloroquine COVID-19
  20. George Papadopoulos Tied the Utility of Russian Dirt to the Campaign’s Plan to Use Dirt to Win
  21. In an Attempt to Absolve Mike Flynn, Eli Lake Accidentally (and Erroneously) Accuses Flynn of “Outright Espionage,” Then Lies about the Evidence
  22. DC Circuit Orders Judge Sullivan to Respond to Mike Flynn’s Mandamus Petition
  23. Prosecutors Have Discovered the Joshua Schulte Is a Hack-and-Leak Case, Not a Personnel Dispute
  24. Ron Wyden Hints at How the Intelligence Community Hides Its Web Tracking Under Section 215
  25. Flynn Was Hiding that He Coordinated His Kislyak Call with Mar-A-Lago
  26. Barr’s Micro-Management of the Durham Investigation May Demolish the Premise of Flynn Motion to Dismiss
  27. Trump Should Worry about How Prosecutors Came to Learn Which Subset of His Calls with Roger Stone to Ask About
  28. The Trump Administration Disproves the Trump Administration’s Claims that Mike Flynn’s Communications with Sergey Kislyak Were Routine
  29. Sidney Powell Argues Against Herself, Billy Barr, and DOJ in a Petition for Writ of Mandamus
  30. How Many COVID-19 Deaths Is Ron DeSantis Hiding?
  31. Glenn Greenwald’s Invented Claims in Defense of Bill Barr and Mike Flynn
  32. Pompeo’s Latest Attempts To Propel Propaganda On Lab Escape Of SARS CoV-2 Suffer Two Epic Swat-Downs
  33. Bill Barr and Chris Wray Schedule a Press Conference to Admit Trump Let an Al Qaeda Terrorist onto Our Military Base
  34. It’s the Inequality, Stupid: Why Test, Trace, Isolate Won’t Stop Covid-19 in America
  35. The Emptywheel Fabulous Car Blog! Formula One and Car Flicks
  36. Steve Bannon’s Bas-Relief Confession that Trump Told Him to Deny Discussing Sanction Relief
  37. Schrodinger’s Materiality: Bill Barr’s DOJ Has an Active Filing Arguing Flynn’s Lies Were Material
  38. Three Days in December 2016: Sanctions, Nukes, Syria, and Russia
  39. As Richard Burr Rushes to Release Volume Five of SSCI’s Russian Investigation, the FBI Closes In
  40. Billy Barr Put a Firearms Prosecutor in Charge of Reviewing a Counterintelligence Investigation
  41. Judge Sullivan to Judge Gleeson: Pick Flynn’s Perjury
  42. Of over 40 Potential Unmaskings of Mike Flynn During the Transition, Just One Led to Criminal Charges
  43. The Legal Posture of the Flynn Case: Emmet Sullivan Has Up to Six Pending Decisions, Not One
  44. Sidney Powell Argues that Judge Sullivan Can’t Appoint an Amicus at Same Time as Applauding the Time He Did Far More
  45. Emmet Sullivan Tells Potential Amici Not to Bug Him Yet
  46. The Public Record Claims that Flynn Had No Permission from Trump to Undermine US Policy in Calling Kislyak
  47. Mike Flynn Collaborator Barbara Ledeen’s Past Role in Producing “New” Evidence
  48. DC Bar No. 472845 Argued Flynn’s Prosecution Was Legitimate before DC Bar No. 472845 Argued It Wasn’t
  49. Bill Barr Did Not Provide the Most Important Exhibit to His Mike Flynn Dismissal Motion: The Call Transcripts
  50. Deficit Hawks Screeching In The Background
  51. Bill Barr Not Only Overrode Emmet Sullivan’s Brady Ruling, He Explicitly Pre-Empted Sullivan’s Covington Review
  52. All COVID-19 is Local, BBQ edition
  53. The Fabulous Emptywheel Music Blog: Little Richard
  54. The Logan Act Is Just the Cherry on Mike Flynn’s Foreign Agent Sundae
  55. Damning New Details from Mary McCord and Sally Yates
  56. Judge Sullivan Has Already Rejected Most of Timothy Shea’s DOJ Flynn Pardon
  57. Trump Pride and DOJ Prejudice: The Flynn Volume
  58. To Justify Dismissing Mike Flynn’s Prosecution, Timothy Shea Claims Information DOJ Has Always Had Is “New”
  59. As Predicted, Billy Barr Bolloxed the Mike Flynn Prosecution
  60. Ric Grenell Declassified George Papadopoulos’ Brags about Fucking Older Women, but Not about Befriending Sergey Millian
  61. Where’s the Beef? Republicans Don’t Understand Critical Infrastructure and Supply Chains
  62. Lindsey Graham and Ric Grenell Reveal Mike Flynn May Not Have Fully Disclosed His Foreign Contacts
  63. Jail Couldn’t Silence The Music Of Albany In 1961 And A Voluntary Lockdown Won’t Silence Them Now
  64. An Update on the Human Experiment in Marion Prison
  65. Live and Let Die: The Data Manipulation Begins
  66. After Years of Squealing about “FISA Abuse,” Trump’s DNI Nominee Won’t Rule Out Warrantless Wiretapping
  67. John Ratcliffe Demonstrates How He’ll Politicize Intelligence by Claiming Trump Has Been Honest about COVID-19
  68. “ur submission form is too fucking slow, spent the whole day uploading 1 gb.”
  69. The Four Ways Trump Can Ensure Mike Flynn Avoids Accountability for His Lies
  70. Michigan’s Militia-Like Morons Can’t Math [UPDATE]
  71. Roger Stone Assistant Andrew Miller Fought His Subpoena Far More Aggressively than His Former Boss
  72. The Frothy Right Wingers Claiming “Perjury Trap” Are Accusing General Flynn of Perjury
  73. The Roger Stone Prosecution Was One Step in an Ongoing Investigation
  74. NY Times Finds Trump Administration Inserted Wuhan Cables Into The Aluminum Tubes Echo Chamber

April 2020

  1. Covid-19 and Class Structure
  2. Republicans OUTRAGED That National Security Threat Was Treated Like National Security Threat
  3. On June 24, 2016, WikiLeaks DMed Guccifer 2.0 about Celebrating Brexit
  4. Seven Days after Julian Assange Helped Trump Win, Roger Stone Started Working on a Pardon
  5. A Video Guide to Understanding Covid-19 without Freaking Out
  6. Trump Policy Maximizes Deaths in Food Factories
  7. Cross Filings: NSD Figures Out How Woods Procedures Are Supposed to Work
  8. Shi Zhengli Provides Proof SARS CoV-2 Was Not An Accidental Release From Wuhan Institute of Virology
  9. Mitch McConnell Just Helped Trump Take Kentucky’s Cops and Teachers Hostage
  10. Research Misinfo/Disinfo: Ain’t No Sunshine Kill COVID-19 Gone
  11. Digging Through The Science—And The Noise—On What Is Known About The Origin Of SARS CoV-2
  12. Judge Sullivan Already Ruled that Mike Flynn’s David Ignatius Story Doesn’t Help Him
  13. Lysol and UV Rays: Running a Pandemic Like a Reality TV Show
  14. The Fabulous Emptywheel Music Blog: Setting The Scene
  15. Trump’s Medical Quackery Exposes the Press’ Both-Sides Quackery
  16. John Durham’s Eternal Crossfire HurriFlame
  17. Long Overdue Policies that Look Obvious in the Age of Pandemic
  18. Brian Kemp Suggests Workers at Nail Salons Don’t Own Their Own Lives
  19. Arrrr Matey, There Be A New Bucco In The Bay
  20. The COVID Delay Should Give Reggie Walton First Pass at the Roger Stone Unsealing
  21. The Nuances of the Carter Page Application
  22. On Trump’s COVID Rallies: Lying and Bullying Are Different Things
  23. The Human Experiment in Herd Immunity Ohio Is Unintentionally Running at Marion Prison
  24. Trump Blames Mueller for Woes Mike Flynn Brought on Himself
  25. On Mountains, Mountain Climbing, and COVID-19
  26. Rural COVID-19: The Tyson Food Clusters
  27. Emptywheel Blog Live Music II: Electric Bugaloo
  28. Liberate All Trump’s Criminals to Sustain the Lockdown
  29. The DOJ IG Footnotes Show FBI Doing What They Do and Russia Doing What They Do
  30. Roger Gets Stoned by Amy Berman Jackson
  31. COVID-19 Tick-Tock Redux — Gridlocked Edition
  32. Trump’s New Spokesperson Brags They’re Just 700K Short of Delivering on Tests Promised a Month Ago
  33. Trump Puts his Rasputin Guy, Michael Caputo, at Department of Health and Human Services During a Pandemic
  34. Trump’s Potemkin Restart Includes Zoom Meeting Invites to Top Reality TV Chefs
  35. Why Is The Battelle N95 Mask Sterilization Contract So Expensive?
  36. Research Misinfo/Disinfo: Off-Label COVID-19 Therapy Has No Proof
  37. WaPo Should Go to Columbus To Find Out How Economy Will Reopen, Not Perpetuate Trump’s Myths about It
  38. Mark Meadows and the Potemkin Shut-Downs: Welcome to the April’s Fool White House
  39. Lev Parnas’ Co-Defendant David Correia Tests the Send-Your-Phone Border Exception Work-Around
  40. We’re In This for the Long Haul
  41. Rikers and Roosevelt: The Uncontrolled Human Experiment Occurring with Essential Workers (and Their Wards)
  42. Capitalism fails the Covid-19 Crisis
  43. US “Job Creators” Negate The Humanity Of Workers
  44. The Locked Down, Locked Up, Quarantine Gotta Get Down To It Emptywheel Live Music Trash Talk
  45. What a “Reopening the Economy Story” Would Look Like
  46. Chuck Grassley and His Two Republican Friends
  47. The Very Specific Details about the COVID Warnings from the “Deep State”
  48. Like All Else, Trump’s Inspector General Turnover Is about Pandemic
  49. Last Night, Trump Admitted that Jared Kushner — Who Promised Testing in Big Box Parking Lots — Had Failed
  50. Understanding Covid-19 for Viral Newbies
  51. The Scope of DOJ IG’s FISA Review
  52. Research Misinfo/Disinfo: It’s a Scam
  53. Coming Attractions: Emptywheel Live Music Trash Talk
  54. Masked Up, Ready to Go (Nowhere)
  55. Michigan Is Using More a Pessimistic Model than the White House
  56. Trump And Southern Governors Team Up To Kill Republican Voters
  57. If New York Got a Late Start, Then Trump Hasn’t Even Started Yet
  58. Trump’s Promise of Only 100,000 Deaths Assumes We Ignore Him

March 2020

  1. Research Misinfo/Disinfo: Check Experts’ Homework
  2. It Turns Out Carter Page Was Not Special
  3. Larry Hogan, Ralph Northam, and Muriel Bowser Asked for a Federal Testing Site … Two Weeks Ago
  4. Three Things: Shit Got Real with Family and COVID-19
  5. Straddling the COVID-19 Barbed Wire Fence in Kansas
  6. New Orleans Is Drowning. Again.
  7. Rural Roulette: The Three-Day Church Event
  8. Support And Elect Moe Davis For Congress
  9. Dispatch from the War on COVID-19 [UPDATE-1]
  10. Trump Can’t Turn the Economy Back on Without Overriding Executive Orders of 30 Governors
  11. Trump Threatens to Withhold Disaster Declaration for Michigan because Gretchen Whitmer Was Mean to Him
  12. Trump’s Death Panel Comes for Detroit [UPDATE-1]
  13. Trump Fighting for Floating Petri Dishes but Not Life-Saving Ventilators
  14. Trump’s Blame the Governors Strategy and Rural Roulette
  15. The Tick-Tock to COVID-19’s Explosion
  16. A Virus Does Not Care
  17. Donald Trump Just Killed A Man. Now He Wants To Kill A Million Americans.
  18. Air Traffic: A Lesson on Pandemic Economics from the Airlines
  19. Calling ‘Bullshit’ on Trump’s Hoocoodanode
  20. Trump Considers Getting Hospitals Ventilators Nationalization But a Bailout for Him and His Rich Buddies Necessity
  21. Hurricane COVID-19
  22. How the Concord Management Prosecution Fell Apart
  23. Three Things: The GOP’s Trumpian Death Panels [UPDATE-1]
  24. The Costs of Letting Trump Believe His Authoritarian Buddies Instead of His Intelligence Community
  25. Three Things: Racist Redirects as GOP Clings to Its Brand
  26. Une FAQ Utile
  27. Introduction To New Series: The Public And Its Problems by John Dewey
  28. Shelter in Place
  29. Three Things: Even More Family Fun with COVID-19
  30. At First, KT McFarland Told a Similarly Misleading Version of the Story Mike Flynn Will Be Pardoned For
  31. On Ronna McDaniel’s (Still Undisclosed) Test Results
  32. Yevgeniy Prigozhin Wins His Asymmetric Legal War against DOJ
  33. Trump Is Providing Free Advertising for a Bunch of Companies that Don’t Offer Paid Sick Leave
  34. Meanwhile, Over at Foggy Bottom
  35. Trump’s Customs And Border Protection Just Created Hundreds Of New COVID-19 Superspreaders
  36. Three Things: Good (Family) News, Bad (COVID-19) News
  37. Chelsea Manning’s Release May Not Be the End of Her Troubles
  38. We Are In A Liminal Space In The COVID-19 Outbreak
  39. Chelsea Manning Released from Jail … with a Massive Fine
  40. Hours before She Attempted to Kill Herself, Prosecutors May Have Told Chelsea Manning that Julian Assange Is a Russian Spy
  41. Three Things: More Family Fun with COVID-19
  42. Adam Schiff Totally Gutted the Section 215 Notice Provision in the FISA Reauthorization Bill
  43. A helpful FAQ on Covid 19
  44. King Josh in Jail, Part One: The Informant
  45. Fiscal Policy For The COVID-19 Outbreak
  46. When Julian Assange Testified before a Nation-State Investigation of a Suspected Spy…
  47. John Galt Is Impotent In A Pandemic
  48. Judge Crotty Declares a Mistrial in Joshua Schulte Case
  49. How the Wyden/Khanna Espionage Act Fix Works (But Not for Julian Assange)
  50. Three Things: Endemic COVID-19 Edition
  51. In a Totally Unresponsive Response to Reggie Walton’s Order, Kerri Kupec Does Not Deny that Bill Barr Misrepresented the Mueller Report
  52. 20 Questions (Plus 5): The Joshua Schulte Jury Is Lost, Possibly Hopelessly
  53. Mike Flynn Commits to Waiving Privilege
  54. COVID-19: The Gift of Family Discussion Topics [UPDATE-1]
  55. DOJ Is Abusing FOIA Exemptions to Hide Later, More Damning Testimony of Trump Aides
  56. Mueller Told Trump He Was Being Investigated for Hacking, Wire Fraud, and Mail Fraud
  57. We Don’t Do That
  58. Questioning Bill Barr’s “No Collusion” Propaganda, Reggie Walton Orders an In Camera Review of Mueller Report
  59. Amid Discussions of FISA Reform, James Boasberg Pushes for Greater Reform
  60. The Joshua Schulte Jury Is Falling Apart
  61. Driving Carter Page: What the 302 Says
  62. The Recruitment of Jared Kushner
  63. Democrats’ 2020 Primaries: Super Tuesday Results [UPDATE-4]
  64. US COVID-19 Cases Now Spreading Due To Trump’s Testing Restrictions And Dismantling Of Pandemic Response Teams
  65. It’s Easy to [Claim to] Attribute Hacks to CIA after a One Month Trial on CIA’s Tools
  66. Roger Stone Accuses Jerome Corsi of Lying When He Testified Stone’s Cover Story Was a Cover Story
  67. My Corona
  68. We Have Never Been Modern: Conclusion

February 2020

  1. With One Dropped Charge and a Major Screw-up, Government in Remarkably Weak Position against Joshua Schulte
  2. Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl’s Pathetic Disinformation May Finally Matter
  3. Ted Yoho Says Lynching Is Not A Hate Crime
  4. Preparing For The Inevitable Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak
  5. The State of Play: Joshua Schulte and Julian Assange
  6. Kim DotCom Posts Evidence Trump’s “Best Friend (Name Redacted)” in Pardon Discussions
  7. The Carter Page Clauses in the FISA Reform Bill Wouldn’t Help Carter Page
  8. Hot and Cold Running Mike Pompeo and Other Ridiculous WikiLeaks Defense Claims
  9. The Kinds and Significance of Russian Interference — 2016 and 2020
  10. The Inconsistencies of the UC Global Julian Assange Spying Story
  11. Steve Bellovin Weighs in on the Schulte Mistrial Request
  12. A Discussion of a Pardon for Assange Is Why Stone’s Threats against Credico Worked
  13. The Frothy Right Is Complaining that Amy Berman Jackson Sentenced Roger Stone to 57% of Lower Guidelines
  14. Does DOJ Plan to Get Henry Kyle Frese’s Cooperation to Prosecute Journalists?
  15. Four Ways Bill Barr Fucked Up the Roger Stone Cover-Up
  16. Bill Barr’s Past Statements Say Pardoning Roger Stone Would Be Obstruction
  17. DOJ Is Withholding the Mike Flynn 302 Describing How the Campaign Considered Reaching Out to Julian Assange after the Podesta Leaks
  18. Back Channel: How Sean Hannity Came to Believe “Every Word [Assange] Says”
  19. What Happens After You’re Cancelled
  20. DOJ’s Ukraine Fire Sale: The Jerry Nadler Questions Bill Barr Didn’t Answer
  21. What Do These ‘Missing’ Candidates Have in Common?
  22. The President’s Conspiracy Theories Get More Whacko than George Papadopoulos’
  23. Joshua Schulte Doubles Down on Forcing Mike Pompeo to Testify in His Trial
  24. CIA Put Joshua Schulte’s Buddy on Administrative Leave Last August
  25. Roger Stone Admitted to Violating 18 USC 115 Under Oath
  26. The Nonmoderns
  27. The Stakes and Misinformation about the Andrew McCabe Declination
  28. SSCI Has Already Dismissed One of the Key Issues John Durham Is Investigating
  29. The Size of Bill Barr’s Cover-Up Hints at the Magnitude of What He’s Covering Up
  30. Bill Barr Trying to Dig Sidney Powell out of the Hole She Dug for Mike Flynn
  31. The Timeline Suggests Bill Barr Removed Jesse Liu to Intervene for Trump’s Rat-Fucker
  32. ABC Conducts an “Exclusive” “Interview” about Sentencing Guidelines without Asking about Sentencing Guidelines
  33. Joshua Schulte’s Human Graymail Campaign Targets Mike Pompeo
  34. The Geostrategic and Historic Implications of Crypto
  35. Bill Barr Usurped the Power of a Judge Who Was Threatened Herself to Decide the Import of Violent Threats
  36. Tea Leaves: Brandon Van Grack Remains on the Mike Flynn Case
  37. Steve Bannon Employee Lee Stranahan Purportedly Convinced Roger Stone to Love Guccifer 2.0
  38. The Slow Firing of Robert Mueller[‘s Replacement]
  39. Bill Barr’s DOJ Says Trump Is Too Old for Another 4 Year Term
  40. Three Things: When the Hangover Ends
  41. Bill Barr Needs to Soften Roger Stone’s Sentence to Prevent Him from Talking
  42. Bill Barr Commits the Bruce Ohr “Crime”
  43. The Frothy Right’s Redaction-Ray Glasses in Defense of Roger Stone
  44. Timothy Shea Signs Off on Aggressive Sentencing Recommendation for Roger Stone
  45. Bill Barr’s Chosen US Attorney Signs Off on Aggressive Response to Mike Flynn
  46. The Black Hole Where SSCI’s Current Understanding of WikiLeaks Is
  47. Joshua Schulte’s Hot and Cold Snowden Views
  48. Why Hasn’t George Papadopoulos Outed “Source 3”?
  49. The Real News in Bill Barr’s Announcement: He’s Vetoing Campaign Finance Investigations, Too
  50. The Very Limited Republican Concern about FISA
  51. “What is the root user?” Joshua Schulte Set Up the Shared “root” Password He’ll Use in His Defense
  52. The FBI Downloaded CIA’s Hacking Tools Using Starbuck’s WiFi
  53. Midnight in Washington: Today’s Senate Vote [UPDATE-2]
  54. Joshua Schulte Opening Arguments
  55. Three Things: Day After Night Before Day of Disaster [UPDATE-2]
  56. Manafort’s Efforts to Insinuate Himself into Trump’s Campaign Earlier Than Previously Known
  57. “Project Rasputin:” The Michael Caputo Interview
  58. The Israeli Focus and Others’ Criminality at the Beginning of Mike Flynn’s “Cooperation”
  59. Subject, Quasi-Object, Object
  60. Steve Bannon’s Grand Jury Secrets
  61. Super Bowl LIV: Who Will Party With The Lombardi
  62. Methinks Joshua Schulte Doth Protest Too Much over Anonymous

January 2020

  1. Mike Flynn Seizes the Rope to Hang Himself With: Pick Your Perjury
  2. Hitting the Oscillator: Today’s Senate Vote on Witnesses [UPDATE-5]
  3. The Manafort Link Sets the Fruman-Parnas Timeline Back — But the Manafort Timeline Is Earlier Too
  4. Mike Flynn Seizes the Rope to Hang Himself With: Flynn’s Motion to Dismiss Carter Page’s Non-Existent Plea
  5. Pat Cipollone Believes the Golden Rule Is for Chumps
  6. Mike Flynn Seizes the Rope to Hang Himself With: Probation for Petraeus
  7. SDNY Prosecutors Protect Trump’s Privacy to Enter into a Joint Defense Agreement with the Russian Mob
  8. John Lewis Was Not Always Old
  9. Joshua Schulte Wanted to Include Instructions to Contact WikiLeaks in a Pro Se Motion
  10. Three Things: Odd, Odder, Oddities
  11. The Whack-a-Mole Cover Story: Bill Barr’s Knowing Complicity Moved a Month Earlier
  12. Charles Cooper’s Letter about Pre-Publication Review Discounts Any Executive Privilege Claims
  13. Mueller’s 302s: The Apparent Referral of Rick Gerson’s 302s May Be as Interesting as Kushner’s
  14. Dick Cheney’s Apprentice Strikes
  15. RIP Kobe
  16. Propaganda and Flattery: Jack Posobiec Parrots Adam Schiff’s Case for Impeachment
  17. The Significance of the Trump-Firing-Masha Recording
  18. Mike Pompeo Can Find Proof that Obama Addressed Ukrainian Corruption in Trump’s Joint Defense Agreement
  19. How Many Other Grifters and Spies Have Incredibly Damning Recordings of Donald Trump?
  20. Emmet Sullivan Invites Mike Flynn to Lie Under Oath One More Time
  21. NSA Is Probably Withholding Details of the Alleged Burisma Hack from Congress
  22. Joshua Schulte Spoke Positively of Edward Snowden the Day Snowden Came Forward
  23. FISC Reveals DOJ Has Withdrawn Probable Cause Assertion for Two of Carter Page Applications
  24. Sidney Powell Wants to Have Mike Flynn’s Acceptance of Responsibility and Claims of Innocence Too
  25. The Glenn Greenwald versus the Julian Assange Charges, Compared
  26. Joshua Schulte’s Plans from Jail: “#TopSecret#FuckYourTopSecret”
  27. Lev Parnas’ Own Delays Ensured His Evidence Couldn’t Be Considered in the House Investigation
  28. Lev Parnas Says Bill Barr Should Recuse … But Doesn’t Say Why
  29. Impeachment = Grounds for Firing
  30. Trump Flunkies Trading Legal Relief for Campaign Dirt: Julian Assange and Dmitro Firtash
  31. Lev Parnas Wouldn’t Reveal Whether He Has Receipts on Bill Barr
  32. As Accused Co-Conpirators, Donald Trump and Lev Parnas Should Be Treated with Same Skepticism
  33. Championship Sunday Trash Talk
  34. Kevin Downing Was “in the Loop” of Silencing Lev Parnas on October 8
  35. Beware the Deep State Bearing Granola Bars: George Papadopoulos’ 302s
  36. The Procedural Weakness of Sidney Powell’s Attempt to Blow Up Mike Flynn’s Plea Deal
  37. It Was All [Fruman’s] Contacts in Ukraine
  38. Parnas’ Three-Way: John Dowd Has Already Confirmed a Key Part of Lev Parnas’ Story
  39. Lev Parnas’ Claims to Be Following the Opinion of His Clique on Yovanovitch Are Demonstrably False
  40. GAO’s Determination that Trump Broke the Law Raises the Stakes of Senate Exoneration
  41. Lev Parnas, Creator of Echo Chambers
  42. Three Things: ‘She’s Going to Go Through Some Things’
  43. In a Filing Claiming He’s Innocent, Mike Flynn’s Lawyers Accuse Mike Flynn of Lying Under Oath
  44. The Parnas Files Raise the Import of DOJ’s Failure to Connect-the-Dots on the Whistleblower Complaint
  45. Useful But Not Sufficient: FBI’s FISA Fix Filing
  46. Is Bill Barr Picking a Fight with Apple to Distract from the Failure of Trump’s Social Media Vetting?
  47. College Football Championship Monday
  48. The Revelations about FISA Bureaucracy in FBI’s FISA Fix Filing
  49. NFL Divisional Playoff Weekend
  50. Introduction and Index To We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
  51. Steve Bannon’s 302 of Laughter and Forgetting
  52. Joshua Schulte’s Carefully Crafted Plan to (Metaphorically) Blow Up His Trial
  53. The Republican Party Is No Longer the Party of Personal Responsibility
  54. Nunes Memo v Schiff Memo: Neither Were Entirely Right
  55. The Bigger Threat for Flynn than Six Months in Prison: the Counterintelligence Language
  56. Prosecutors Invite Emmet Sullivan to Throw the Book at Mike Flynn
  57. Joshua Schulte’s Three Lawyer Monte
  58. The DOJ IG Report on Carter Page: Policy Considerations
  59. A Few Thoughts On Carter Page Warrants, Franks v. Delaware and Michael Horowitz
  60. DOJ IG Report on Carter Page and Related Issues: Mega Summary Post
  61. Jerome Corsi’s Descent into Madness
  62. The Joker Is Wildcard Weekend
  63. How Paul Manafort Lied to Mueller to Protect Jared Kushner
  64. The Government’s Coy Dance on FISA and Rudy’s Grifters
  65. Was Chris Ruddy a Second Back Channel between Manafort and Trump?
  66. With Suleimani’s Assassination, Trump Unites A Divided Iran
  67. Twenty Years of Continuity
  68. Deza: Oleg Deripaska’s Double Game
  69. New Years Day: Things I Have Learned in The Last Ten Years

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December 2019

  1. The Inspector General Report on Carter Page Fails to Meet the Standard It Applies to the FBI
  2. “Fact Witness:” How Rod Rosenstein Got DOJ IG To Land a Plane on Bruce Ohr
  3. Eli Is Leaving, and Bowl Season For Real Trash Talk
  4. Christmas Eve Remembrances
  5. The Damning Revelations about George Papadopoulos in a DOJ IG Report Claiming Exculpatory Evidence
  6. Eleven Days after Releasing Their Report, DOJ IG Clarified What Crimes FBI Investigated
  7. The Ugly Results Of Inequality
  8. How Putin Got in Trump’s (and So, All of Our) Head
  9. The Various Channels Via Which the Steele Reports Got Ingested by FBI
  10. Crossfire Hurricane Glossary
  11. Yakety Yak Trash
  12. Sam Clovis Responded to a Question about Russia Interfering in the Election by Raising Voter ID
  13. Timeline of Key Events in DOJ IG Carter Page Report
  14. The Carter Page IG Report Debunks a Key [Impeachment-Related] Conspiracy about Paul Manafort
  15. Explain It To Me: What Does Impeachment Mean Now?
  16. The Entire Republican Party Owns Trump’s Crimes Going Forward
  17. Amy Berman Jackson Disputes Claims of “Exculpatory” Information on Russia and Ukraine
  18. Impeachment: House of Representatives’ Debate and Vote Thread [UPDATE-4]
  19. Rosemary Collyer Responds to the DOJ IG Report in Fairly Blasé Fashion
  20. It’s Une Wonderful Strike
  21. Macron’s Christmas: Grabbing the Third Rail of French Politics
  22. A Biased FBI Agent Was Running an Informant on an Oppo-Research Predicated Investigation–into Hillary–in 2016
  23. Judge Emmet Sullivan to Mike Flynn: You Sir, Are No Ted Stevens
  24. What Real Voters Think about Impeachment at Grand Rapids’ Brewery Vivant
  25. Why Justin Amash Should Be an Impeachment Manager
  26. The History of High Crimes and Misdemeanors
  27. The Black Hole
  28. Inequality In Social Relationships
  29. A Diverse America Votes to Uphold the Constitution; A Largely Male White America Votes to Abrogate It
  30. Trump “Cares” about Corruption in Ukraine because It Ensures Paul Manafort Will Keep His Secrets
  31. Days after America Learns to Hate FISA, Lev Parnas’ Co-Conspirator Focuses the Issue
  32. Even More Guaranteed Fraud From Parnas and Giuliani
  33. While Republicans Continue to Claim Collusion Didn’t Happen, George Papadopoulos Labeled Roger Stone’s Actions as Treason
  34. American Democracy Needs Better Reporters than Pete Williams
  35. Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Trolls Recoil from Sunlight
  36. With Release of DOJ IG FISA Report, Democrats Should Pause on Impeachment
  37. The Flynn Predication
  38. Some Things That are True About France
  39. Afghanistan: A Trillion Dollars’ Worth Of Lies
  40. Will Rogers Was Right About The Democrats
  41. The Special Envoy for Ukraine Was Working on Paul Manafort’s Defense
  42. Snowden Needs a Better Public Interest Defense: Disposing of the Journalist Filter
  43. The WikiLeaks Conspiracy: The Government Prepares to Argue WikiLeaks Has Always Been an Organized Crime Syndicate
  44. NCAA Conference Championship Weekend Trash Talk
  45. Joshua Schulte: The Alleged Vault 7 and CIA Election Spying Leaker?
  46. France Strikes, with Firefighters at Center Stage
  47. DOJ Flips the Lawfare on Its Head in Russian Troll Case
  48. Speaker Pelosi Goes from Slow-Walking to Sprinting
  49. Republican Complaints about Phone Records Back Democratic Impeachment Case
  50. Trump HJC Defenders Claim Ukraine Aid Withheld To Fight Corruption While Rudy Rounds Up Fired Corrupt Ukrainians To Help Trump
  51. Impeachment Hearing for December 4, 2019
  52. Bill Barr Apparently Threatens to Withdraw FBI Protection from Donald Trump
  53. George Nader’s Equal Opportunity Foreign Influence Peddling
  54. Are Kulyk, Lutsenko, and Shokin the Three Ukrainians that Show Bill Barr Is Part of the Conspiracy?
  55. The Republican Pre-Buttal Spins Republican and Non-Partisan Facts as a Democratic Plot
  56. The Trump-John Solomon Attempts to Blame Others for the Vault 7 Leak

November 2019

  1. The Origin of the Sharpie Quid Pro Quo Denial: An Effort to Craft a Cover Story on the Pages of the WSJ
  2. Happy Thanksgiving: Delayed Cranes and Pigs Edition
  3. Turkey Bowl Trash Talk
  4. The Conservative Lie About Moral Relativity
  5. Did Mike Flynn Gamble and Lose on Bill Barr and Michael Horowitz?
  6. Is It Russian Or Is It Real?
  7. Moron-Contra and Gordon Sondland’s Venezuela Involvement
  8. The Government Prepares to Argue that Transmitting Information *To* WikiLeaks Makes the Vault 7 Leak Different
  9. A Billionaire’s Opportunity Cost
  10. Inequality Of Freedom
  11. Paul Manafort Is the Linchpin in Russia’s Effort to Recorrupt Ukraine
  12. The Virgin Birth of the First Rudy Giuliani-Mike Pompeo Call
  13. Timeline: How Rudy Made It Hard for Mike Pompeo to Show Any Leadership
  14. Cowboys and Patriots Trash Talk
  15. The Proper Recipients for Lev Parnas’ Allegations Are the Ethics Committee and SDNY
  16. Did Giuliani Give Parnas The Referral Of Turkey To Ballard Partners As Payment For Trump Defense Work In Ukraine?
  17. Bill Barr Moves from Treating Understaffing at BOP as a “SNAFU” to a “Perfect Storm of Screw-Ups”
  18. Impeachable Acts: What GOP Spin Can’t Change
  19. Will Hurd’s Sparkle Pony Approach to the Solemn Duty of Upholding the Constitution
  20. Paul Manafort Knew of His Inclusion in the Black Ledger Two Months before NYT Story
  21. Impeachment Hearings: Day 5 – A Tough Hill Ahead?
  22. Devin Nunes Billed Taxpayers $63,000 for a Jaunt to Europe Chasing Accused Fraudster Lev Parnas’ Disinformation
  23. Impeachment Hearings: Day 4 – Sondland Gets Another Chance
  24. Kurt Volker Makes the Case that Ukraine Tampered in 2016 Election — for Trump
  25. Elise Stefanik Makes Case that Don Jr and Eric Trump Must Resign from Trump Organization
  26. Impeachment Hearings: Day 3 – Witnesses to the July 25 Call [UPDATE-2]
  27. The Persistence of Jared in the WikiLeaks Operation
  28. The Gaping Hole in the Impeachment Investigation Where Bruce Swartz Should Be
  29. The Trump-Mueller Answer the Stone Trial Really Implicates: Pardoning Assange
  30. Impeachment Hearings: Big, Busy Week Ahead [UPDATE-1]
  31. The Conflict between the GOP’s “Hearsay” and “Whistleblower” Defenses
  32. Bill Barr’s Screed: Blindness about Current Threats
  33. Too Roger Stoned Trash Talk
  34. Jim Jordan Accuses Trump of Lying to Mueller in Latest Defense against Impeachment
  35. Hours after Donald Trump Witness Tampered in Real Time, Roger Stone Found Guilty of the Same Crime
  36. Impeachment Hearings: Day 2 – Marie Yovanovitch [UPDATE-2]
  37. Devin Nunes Calls an Experienced Organized Crime Researcher Funded by Paul Singer a Democratic Operative
  38. BREAKING: The First Amendment Is Part of Something Called the Constitution
  39. Time to Start Calling Bill Barr “Prosecutor General”
  40. The 900 Pages of George Nader Testimony the Government Wants to Keep Hidden
  41. Loose Ends as the Stone Trial Moves to Closing Arguments
  42. Trump Team’s Extortion Demands To Ukraine Started Before The April 21 Call To Zelensky
  43. Private Government By Corporations
  44. It Doesn’t Matter for Prosecutors’ Case that Randy Credico Was Bragging or (Purportedly) Drunk
  45. Why Won’t Sean Hannity Defend Trump against Impeachment Under Oath?
  46. Rick Gates Got Sent Two Key Jerome Corsi Posts
  47. Trash Talk
  48. Three Questions Not Asked of Steve Bannon
  49. Why Did Gucciardo Pay Giuliani Partners For His “Loan” To Fraud Guarantee?
  50. Snowden Needs a Better Public Interest Defense, Part I: Bildungsroman
  51. The Cognitive Dissonance of Learning about Roger Stone’s “Collusion”
  52. After Engaging in Multiple Overt Acts Benefitting a Conspiracy, Bill Barr Had Kerri Kupec Commit the Most Overt Act
  53. The Narrative and Legal Tensions Set on Day One of Roger Stone’s Trial
  54. emptywheel Fact Check Service — DOJ, 1-1 // Sidney Powell, 0-29
  55. What Prosecutors Need to Show to Prove Roger Stone Guilty
  56. When Your Joint Defense Agreement with the Russian Mob Blows Up in Your Face
  57. What the Exhibit Decisions and the Witness List Say to Expect from Roger Stone’s Trial (Updated)
  58. Sidney Powell Complains That Peter Strzok Is Too OCD to Investigate Her Client
  59. People Who Illegally Withheld Duly Appropriated Funding Refuse to Explain to Congress Why
  60. The Mueller Report Was Neither about Collusion Nor about Completed Investigation(s)
  61. DOJ Pre-Dumps the Stone Trial: What BuzzFeed Obtained via FOIA
  62. Rubber Biscuit Trash Talk
  63. Attorney General Bill Barr Has a Higher Opinion of George Papadopoulos’ Dirt than Steve Bannon Does
  64. On the Classification Disputes over Mike Flynn’s Discovery
  65. The Government Reminds Emmet Sullivan that Mike Flynn Already Agreed His Current Complaints Don’t Change His Guilt

October 2019

  1. Meanwhile, The Pace Of US War Crimes In Afghanistan Accelerates Dramatically
  2. Three Things: Double, Double, Toil and Rubble
  3. The Republican Closing Argument against Impeachment Is Personally Implicated in the Scandal
  4. The Ellipses and the Recordings, Plural, of Joe Biden
  5. Emmet Sullivan Just Learning of Sidney Powell’s Bait-and-Switch
  6. Alexander Vindman Proves That Working Within System Works Even While Derek Harvey Works To Destroy It
  7. Laura Cooper’s Forgotten Deposition
  8. How Sidney Powell Misrepresents Her Evidence in Her Fake Brady Motion
  9. Sidney Powell Accuses Mike Flynn of Lying to the FBI on January 24, 2017
  10. Egalitarianism and Markets
  11. Gorey Trash Talk
  12. DOJ’s Inspector General (and 70 Colleagues) Says DOJ’s Lawyers Fucked Up
  13. 13 Routine Aspects of FBI Investigations Sidney Powell Says Should Not Be Used with Mike Flynn
  14. Main Justice Now Looking for the Evidence in Plain Sight They Ignored in August
  15. What Durham Might Be Looking At
  16. How Trump Put Volodymyr Zelensky in a Public Box, After All
  17. Alex Mooney’s Hilarious Self-Own
  18. If the AG Is Involved in a Foreign Influence Operation, Does He Have to Register with Himself?
  19. White House Putting Political Appointees in Charge of Presidential Records Act Compliance
  20. GOP Republicans Stage Brooks Brothers Riot 2.0 to Emasculate Their Own Power of the Purse
  21. Bill Barr’s DOJ Engaged in Conspiracy to Defraud the US on Trump’s July 25 Meeting
  22. We Can Learn A Lot From That Lev Parnas Photo With Ivana Trump
  23. How DOJ Worked Overtime to Avoid Connecting the Dots in the Whistleblower Complaint
  24. Rudy’s Disinformation Campaign Ties Directly with Key Milestones in the Mueller Investigation
  25. The Guy Who Defended Roger Stone’s Campaign Finance Shenanigans Did Not Testify to the Grand Jury
  26. BREAKING! George Papadopoulos Says FBI Should Have Surveilled Him MORE Than They Did
  27. Krewe du Boo Trash Talk
  28. Will Fox News Ask Its Commentators to Disclose Their Mobbed Up Clients?
  29. The Parnas Family Wire Transfers Released In The Pues Lawsuit Reveal More Than You Think
  30. A World We Built to Burn
  31. Surveillance Reform Can No Longer Ignore EO 12333
  32. Mick Mulvaney Confesses OMB and DOD Are Withholding Evidence of a Crime from Congress
  33. Sorting Out The Timeline For Lev Parnas And Program Trading Corp.
  34. Gordon Sondland’s Statement Protects, Does Not Break with, Trump
  35. Rest in Power: Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (1951 – 2019)
  36. The Frothy Right Gets More Excited about an Eight Year Old Phone than Contemporaneous Metadata
  37. On the Potential Viability of Foreign Agent Charges for Rudy Giuliani
  38. Lev Parnas Had A Remarkable Start On His Path To Fraud Guarantee
  39. The Significance of Fiona Hill’s Testimony: “Whatever Drug Deal Sondland and Mulvaney Are Cooking Up”
  40. The Criminal Investigation into Paul Manafort Was (and May Still be) Ongoing–and Likely Pertains to Trump’s Ukraine Extortion
  41. A Meditation: Who Are You?
  42. How Twelve Years of Warning and Six Years of Plodding Reform Finally Forced FBI to Do Minimal FISA Oversight
  43. Clemson Up Huge; People Losing Their Shit Over A Kicker
  44. The President’s Joint Defense Agreement with the Russian Mob
  45. The Problem with Letting the Client-in-Chief Rewrite Impeachment Strategy Mid-Week
  46. Do Lev Parnas and David Correia Have A Connection To Sale Of Trump Properties To Russians In South Florida?
  47. Consider How Paul Manafort’s Fate May Have Affected Marie Yovanovitch
  48. Judicial Watch Reveals Reza Zarrab’s Lawyer May Have Pitched Rosenstein on Special Counsel Pick
  49. Rudy Giuliani Represents Fraud Guarantee Founder
  50. DOJ Confirms that Trump’s Anti-Biden Propagandists Were in the Employ of a Russian
  51. DOJ Suddenly Decides It Can Share the McCabe, Comey 302s with Congress
  52. Three Things: Erasing, Erased, Erasure
  53. DOJ Holds Big Presser to Make It Clear It Will Use Title III Wiretaps to Prosecute Leaks
  54. The Press Gets Utterly Snookered on the White House Rebranding of the Same Old Unrelenting Obstruction of Congressional Prerogatives
  55. Jared Kushner’s Pervasive Corruption Pops Up In Surprising Ways
  56. Bill Barr Risks becoming George Papadopoulos’ Coffee Boy
  57. Boomtown Blues Trash Talk
  58. Trump Specifically Ensured Republicans Wouldn’t Know about His Extortion
  59. Hitting the Fan: Volker’s Text Messages Released
  60. Trump Is Being Impeached for Harming America to Extort Campaign Help
  61. Was The Trump Phone Call With Zelensky Paused For Discussion On US Side?
  62. The Conspiracy Theories Flynn Wants to Resuscitate and the McCabe Investigation
  63. House Committees’ Deposition: U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker
  64. In Days before Robert Mueller Got Hired, DOJ Immediately Forwarded Bill Barr’s Op-Ed Approving of Comey’s Firing to Rod Rosenstein
  65. Bill Barr Risks becoming Joseph Mifsud’s New Coffee Boy
  66. ODNI GC Klitenic: President Has Sole Authority Over Security Clearances, But Is Not Member Of Intelligence Community
  67. Is Bill Barr Already Feeding Sidney Powell So-Called Evidence Trump Coerces?

September 2019

  1. Bill Barr’s OLC Treated His Implication in the Whistleblower Complaint as Top Secret
  2. At Time of Trump-Zelensky Call, Mulvaney Was Already Under Notice From Cummings, Engel and Schiff Not to Hide Records
  3. The CIA Affiliation of the Whistleblower Isn’t the Key, It’s CIA General Counsel’s Role in a Cover-Up
  4. [Some of] Where Trump Wants to Go with the Server in Ukraine Story
  5. Crowdsource: Updated Trump-Ukraine Timeline, with Giuliani [UPDATE-5]
  6. Bill Barr’s (Claimed) Surprise about Being in the Zelensky Transcript Is Irrelevant To His (Non) Recusal
  7. As Democrats Entertain a Ukraine-Only Impeachment, Jack Goldsmith Lays Out Import of Impeaching for Clemency Abuse
  8. Non-Impeachment Trash Talk
  9. Hidden until Now: Trump Admitted 2016 Russian Interference in Lavrov-Kislyak Meeting
  10. Retroactive Classification: The Government’s Favorite Tool for Silencing Whistleblowers
  11. Why Roger Stone Threatened to Sue emptywheel!
  12. The Intelligence Issues the House Intelligence Committee Largely Ignored
  13. The Definition of “Collusion” as Impeachment Proceeds: the Risk Trump Poses to All Americans
  14. Three Things: Complaint Declassified, Ambassa-doored, Scripted Call? [UPDATE]
  15. How Roger Stone’s Trial Relates to the Ukraine Scandal
  16. Three Things: One Is Not a Transcript
  17. How Impeachment is Gift to the DNC… and the GOP
  18. Judge Trenga’s Bijan Kian Decision May Hurt, Not Help, Mike Flynn
  19. Whip It Good: Time Has Come Today [UPDATE-3]
  20. ODNI Whistleblower Complaint: The Next ConFraudUS? [UPDATE-4]
  21. The Press Cannot Let Trump Pretend He Gives a Shit about Corruption
  22. A Primer On Pragmatism: Applications
  23. A Primer on Pragmatism: Truth
  24. Brown Is Leaving Town Trash Talk
  25. A Primer on Pragmatism: Method
  26. Minority Report: Ukraine as Bugbear
  27. ODNI Whistleblower Complaint: Shoes Dropping All Over the Place [UPDATE-2]
  28. Biden’s Opposition to Medicare for All: It’s All About the Billionaires, Baby
  29. The Implications of Russia’s Identification of FBI’s Assets
  30. Something Smells — and It’s Not Burning Oil
  31. Mike Flynn and Jared Kushner Had Remarkable Success at Avoiding the CIA Asset
  32. Three Things: Kavanaughhh
  33. Crowdsource: Build a Timeline on ODNI Whistleblower Complaint [UPDATED-4]
  34. History’s Rhyme, Part 5: Bad Faith, Unauthorized Acts and Crimes Against Humanity
  35. The Giglio Brady Head Fake in Sidney Powell’s Latest
  36. The January 30 Memo Doesn’t Help Flynn Like the Frothy Right Thinks It Does
  37. Sidney Powell Gets Caught Lying in Hearing before Emmet Sullivan
  38. Scotland: A Nexus for Trouble?
  39. Three Things: Corrupt, More Corrupt, and Stumbling Naifs
  40. Donald Trump Was “Colluding” with Roger Stone on Four Different Direct Lines
  41. Flynn Steps in It 2.0: Emmet Sullivan Will Make Sidney Powell Explain Why She Asked to Declassify Totally Irrelevant Secrets
  42. Packers At Bears – The NFL Sun Comes Out Again Trash Talk
  43. Remember Roger the Rat-Fucker?
  44. Matt Taibbi Attempts to Reinflate Patrick Byrne’s Maria Butina Story
  45. What a Properly Scoped FISA Abuse Inspector General Report Would Look Like
  46. Government Confirms that WikiLeaks Didn’t Release All the Vault 7 Files
  47. Admitted Former Foreign Agent Mike Flynn Demands More Classified Information
  48. Freedom And Equality: In The Workplace
  49. Commuting Blago’s Wildly Excessive Sentence Would Be Right For Trump To Do
  50. When Did Trump Learn Rod Blagojevich Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald Had Comey’s Memos?

August 2019

  1. There Were Two Dick-Waggings Directed at Iran This Week
  2. Three Things: More Like a Dozen
  3. Michael Horowitz’s Credibility Is at Risk
  4. The Classified Conversation Trump Had with Comey Was Two Days after the Vault 7 Leak
  5. Glenn Greenwald and David Frum Need to Stop Looking to the Mueller Report for FBI’s Counterintelligence Conclusions
  6. Revisiting the First Time President Trump Blabbed Out Classified Information for Political Gain
  7. Freedom And Equality: Anderson Against Libertarianism
  8. Judge Crotty Should Let Joshua Schulte Test His Theory of Defense Forensically
  9. The [Andrew] Luck Of The Draw
  10. Maria Butina’s Lawyer Changes His Story about Her Romance with Paul Erickson
  11. In Epstein’s Wake: MIT Media Lab, Dirty Money, and Swartz [UPDATE]
  12. Whip It Good: Crack That Whip [UPDATED-5]
  13. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson Waste Taxpayer Dollars Looking for Foreign Hackers the One Place They Aren’t
  14. Freedom And Equality: More on Equality
  15. Roger Stone Once Again Limits His Denials
  16. Judicial Watch Sues DOJ and Obtains Proof that Mark Meadows and His Propagandists Are Conspiracist Idiots
  17. The Government Accuses Roger Stone of Being a Disorganized Figure Who Committed a Crime
  18. Bill Barr Refuses to “Comply First, Complain Later” with Congressional Oversight
  19. Clear The Shelters Day Is August 17
  20. Whip It Good: Higher and Higher
  21. Four Months Ago Attorney General Bill Barr Called BOP Staff Shortages that Led to Whitey Bulger Murder “a SNAFU”
  22. Don McGahn Is Not the Most Critical Witness on Impeachment
  23. Freedom And Equality: Relational Equality Against Social Hierarchies
  24. The Ohr 302 Exemptions
  25. The Unremarkable Bruce Ohr 302s
  26. DOJ Should Just Give Andrew McCabe What He Wants, But They Won’t
  27. Chickens on ICE Raid: The Odd Luck of Peco and Koch Foods [UPDATE-2]
  28. It Is False To Claim the Counterintelligence Investigation into Trump Is Unprecedented
  29. The Discussion of White Supremacist Terror Ignores the Transnational Nature of It
  30. On Same Day Peter Strzok Sues for His Termination, Judicial Watch Releases Mostly Redacted List of FBI Leakers
  31. The Transcript the Frothy Right Claims Exculpates George Papadopoulos Instead Probably Inculpates Him
  32. Whip It Good: Impeachment Inquiry — Better than Half Way
  33. What I Would Do with the Mueller Report If I Were Reggie Walton
  34. DOJ Says It Never Offered Accused Vault 7 Leaker Joshua Schulte a Plea Deal
  35. The Dance between Joshua Schulte and WikiLeaks
  36. The Parts of the Mueller Report withheld from Roger Stone Show the Centrality of His WikiLeaks Activities to Trump’s Obstruction
  37. Roger Stone Points to Evidence His Witness Tampering Worked to Argue Selective Prosecution
  38. The Ongoing Question of Trump’s (and His Flunkies’) Susceptibility to Compromise by Russia

July 2019

  1. Federal Judge Destroys the Hopes of RICO Salvation in DNC Lawsuit
  2. John Ratcliffe and Accountability for a President Who Lives in a Fox News Bubble
  3. John Ratcliffe’s Lies about His Time at DOJ Raise New Questions about His Claim to Have Used Warrantless Searches
  4. Aspiring Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe Does Not Want DOJ’s Mob Experts Exchanging Information with Mob Experts
  5. Ahab As Randian Hero
  6. There Are More Charges Pending for George Nader or an Accomplice
  7. Right Wing “News” Site Deleted One of the Videos Prosecutors Wanted to Use at Roger Stone’s Trial
  8. After Two Years, MalwareTech Is a Free Man
  9. The Other Servers and Laptops FBI Never Investigated: VR Systems and North Carolina Polling Books
  10. The 18th Warrant Application against Roger Stone Investigated Hacking
  11. Sergey Kislyak, Guccifer 2.0, and Maria Butina Walk into an Election Precinct
  12. The Republicans Complaining about Mueller’s Non-Exoneration of Trump Don’t Care that He Exonerated Jeff Sessions
  13. Something in the Water: GOP Rep. Mitchell Bows out in Michigan
  14. Failing to Damage Mueller, GOP Now Claiming Mueller Not Sufficiently Vigorous to Oversee Trump Investigation
  15. HEARING THREAD: Special Counsel Robert Mueller
  16. OPEN THREAD: Everything Else Not about Robert Mueller
  17. Robert Mueller Asked To Be Instructed To Hew To the Report
  18. Congress Already Has Evidence Trump Lied Under Oath to Robert Mueller
  19. Updated Questions for Robert Mueller
  20. FaceApp and Its Targeted Audience
  21. Three Things: Two USAs and a Bear
  22. The Curious Treatment of Michael Cohen’s Trump Organization Email
  23. Hal Martin Sentencing Leaves All Questions Unanswered
  24. Stormy, Pee Tapes, and Pussy-Grabbing: The Three Explanations for the Cohen-Hicks-Trump Call on October 8, 2016
  25. The Steele Dossier and the Mueller Investigation: Michael Cohen
  26. Democrats Are Setting Themselves Up to Fail on Mueller Hearings
  27. Freedom And Equality: Freedom From Domination Part 2
  28. The More Puzzling Inaction in SDNY: National Enquirer
  29. The Cohen Material Just Released By The Court
  30. Roger Stone Lawyer Bruce Rogow Concedes His CrowdStrike Ploy Was Just That
  31. Renewing My Obsession with Paul Manafort’s iPods: Robert Mueller’s 2,300 Media Devices
  32. The Original Subpoenas in the Mike Flynn FARA Investigation
  33. On CNN’s WikiLeaks Exclusive: Remember the Other Document Dumps
  34. On Mike Flynn’s Previously Undisclosed Interactions with Ekim Aptekin
  35. A Feud for Fun and Profit
  36. Sidney Powell Believes She Can Bullshit Emmet Sullivan at No Risk to Her Client Mike Flynn
  37. The Gina Haspel Honorary 2020 Intelligence Authorization Might Criminalize Linked In Resumes
  38. With Latest Stunt, Mike Flynn May Save Bijan Kian from Prison Time But Double His Own
  39. Ann Donaldson’s Code Makes Richard Burr’s Tip-Off to the White House Far More Damning
  40. OPEN THREAD: FIFA Women’s World Cup Final — U.S. vs. Netherlands
  41. Freedom And Equality: Freedom From Domination Part 1
  42. Joshua Schulte Keeps Digging: His Defensible Legal Defense Continues to Make a Public Case He’s Guilty
  43. In Order to Form a More Perfect Union
  44. The Mysterious Rapid Reverse Veep with a Press Backflip
  45. The Steele Dossier and the Mueller Investigation: Carter Page
  46. OPEN THREAD: FIFA Women’s World Cup — England vs United States
  47. Whip It Good: Impeachment Inquiry — Do You Even Math? [UPDATED]
  48. Jim Jordan’s Bubble Has Allowed Him to Remain Painfully Stupid about the Mueller Investigation

June 2019

  1. Freedom And Inequality: Introduction and Index
  2. Amid Description of Kushner’s Shadow Foreign Policy, Tillerson Counters a Jared Claim to Mueller about Kirill Dmitriev’s Plan
  3. Roger Stone’s Latest: When Legal Categories of Innocent or Guilty become Disinformation and Pardon [Updated]
  4. Jay Sekulow Seems Worried that Trump’s “Collusion” Is Visible from Space
  5. The Dates of Mike Flynn’s Interviews
  6. Questions for Robert Mueller (and His Prosecutors) that Go Beyond the Show
  7. According to Hope Hicks’s Testimony, Trump Should Applaud Paul Manafort’s Conviction
  8. The FBI Maintained Paul Manafort’s Email Account
  9. Livestream Tonight: The Investigation — Mueller Report in 10 Acts [UPDATE]
  10. Hope Hicks Had More Awareness of the Flynn-Kislyak Aftermath Than the Mueller Report Discloses
  11. Hope Hicks’ Very Well Lawyered Efforts to Protect Trump
  12. The Ongoing Proceeding into Paul Manafort’s Kevin Downing-Related Texts
  13. Paul Manafort Seemed Certain Mueller Would Indict Jared Kushner
  14. Manafort Told Hannity Gates Was in for the Long Haul after Discussing Pardons with Him
  15. To The Phones: Stop the Gulf of Tonkin, Iran Edition
  16. Konstantin Kilimnik Shared Stolen Data Laundered Through Bannon’s Propaganda with State Department
  17. Accused Vault 7 Leaker Joshua Schulte Planned to Have WikiLeaks Publish Disinformation to Help His Defense
  18. Roger Stone Describes 67% of the Content of Sealed Warrant Affidavits for His Co-Conspirators
  19. Detaining Chelsea Manning: Other People, Times, and Patterns
  20. A New Form of Victim Blaming: Demanding that Rat-Fucker Roger Stone Get to Learn the Defensive Measures DNC Implemented in 2016
  21. Whip It Good: Impeachment Inquiry Edition [UPDATED-7]
  22. The Congressional Research Service’s (Dated) Take on Julian Assange’s Indictment: DOJ May Argue He Aided Russian Spying
  23. Ishmael, the All-American Boy
  24. A Fine Crop of Golf
  25. Trump’s Greenlight: Asking for Foreign Aid and Assistance via Prime Time TV
  26. Thread: House Intelligence Committee Hearing on Special Counsel’s Report
  27. On Joshua Schulte and Julian Assange’s 10 Year Old Charges
  28. Thread: House Judiciary Committee Hearing with John Dean
  29. Beryl Howell’s Whack-a-Mole Grand Juries
  30. On Once and Future Mueller Grand Juries: The Texts Obtained from Andrew Miller Overlap with Roger Stone’s Voter Suppression
  31. Trump Claimed To Be Angry Flynn Didn’t Make Good on Putin’s January 21 Requested Phone Call
  32. Mike Flynn Assumed the FBI Agents Interviewing Him Would Be Trump Supporters
  33. Mike Flynn Believed the US Could Work with GRU’s Director
  34. History’s Rhyme, Part 4: Contempt Then, Contempt Now
  35. Donald Trump Has a Roger Stone Problem
  36. How to Read the Mueller Report Referrals
  37. Carter Page Shared “Immaterial Non-Public Information” with Rosneft While “Working” for Trump
  38. BREAKING: Roger Stone Insists Russia Hacked the DNC
  39. Key Mueller Witness, George Nader, Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
  40. History’s Rhyme, Part 3: How Nixon’s Impeachment Unfolded [UPDATE-2]
  41. If FBI Had Spied on Trump’s Campaign As Alleged, They’d Have Known Why Manafort Traded Michigan for Ukraine
  42. On the Fizzle and Boom in Friday’s Mike Flynn Friday Night News Dump
  43. What the Stone Search Warrants Suggest about the Ongoing Investigation into Him

May 2019

  1. On Nine Different Occasions, Bill Barr Was Unable to Offer Any Evidence of Irregularity in Russia Investigation
  2. Two Factors that May Change the Impeachment Calculus, Part Two: Criminalizing a Roger Stone Pardon
  3. Two Factors that May Change the Impeachment Calculus, Part One: To Enforce a GOP Subpoena Covering a Trump Lie to Mueller
  4. Mueller’s Emphasis: Russia’s Greater than Two Efforts to Interfere in the Election
  5. Mueller’s Presser
  6. Whip It, Whip It Good: Who’s Read the Report? [Updated]
  7. Mike Flynn Doesn’t Want the Brazenness of His Lies to become Public
  8. The Game of Telephone that Has Attorney General William Barr in a Lather
  9. Memorialize This
  10. There’s a Discrepancy about When Papadopoulos Left the Trump Campaign
  11. Ted Stevens, The “Toobz”, And The Idiocy Of The Internet
  12. George Papadopoulos’ Changing Tune about Working for Trump
  13. The FBI Went to Microsoft, not Trump Organization, for Emails Incriminating Individual-1
  14. Mike Flynn Was Renting His Name to the Highest Bidder While Ostensibly Working for Trump
  15. The Logic of Assange’s EDVA Indictment Is Inconsistent with Mueller’s Apparent Logic on Assange’s Declination
  16. History’s Rhyme, Part 2a: ‘Abuse of Power’ Sounds So Familiar
  17. For Three of the Four Early FBI Subjects Tied to the Trump Campaign, the Campaign Agreed with the Mueller Report Conclusions
  18. Trump Claims He Was Joking When He Gave Russian Hackers a Wish List to Hack Hillary, But His Senior Aides Disagree
  19. The Three Theories of Prosecution for Julian Assange
  20. The Charges Against Julian Assange
  21. Here for Misogyny’s Ratio
  22. Did Some Republican in Congress Leak Details of the Mueller Report to Roger Stone?
  23. Bill Barr’s Bullshit Claim that Trump Obstructed the Investigation Out of Frustration and Anger
  24. Why Trump Believed He Could Withhold the June 9 Email: Because He Succeeded in Withholding Moscow Trump Tower Ones
  25. A Growing Problem: Agriculture, Climate, and Trump
  26. Michael Cohen’s HPSCI Testimony Proves Trump Lied in his Answers to Mueller
  27. The Politics Of The Green New Deal: Conclusion
  28. The Mueller Report Redactions and the Claims about “Collusion”
  29. “I Have Been Sending Everything to Victor:” On Paul Manafort’s Treasury-Sanctioned Meeting Planner, Viktor Boyarkin
  30. Mike Flynn’s “Cooperation” Did Not Extend to Remembering Bob Foresman’s Back Door Discussions
  31. William Barr Ratchets Up the “Witch Hunt” over an Investigation He Judges to be “Anemic” Given the Threat
  32. In a Bid to Jettison Flynn, Trump Suggests Hope Hicks and Steve Bannon Lied to the FBI
  33. Chuck Ross Gets Pissy about Russian Disinformation
  34. The Trump Campaign Discussed Reaching Out to WikiLeaks after WikiLeaks Helped Them Win
  35. The Scope and Results of the Mueller Report
  36. Cloud Computing and the Single Server
  37. Rick Gates’ Status Report Suggests Trump Will Be a Focus of Roger Stone’s Trial
  38. A Tale of Three (Former) Mueller Dockets
  39. Sweden Reopens Assange Rape Case
  40. Trump’s Excuse for His Promised Speech on Hillary Clinton
  41. In a Shoddy Attempt to Inflate the Single Server Fallacy, Roger Stone Suggests Communicating with Guccifer 2.0 Would Be Criminal
  42. NC Election Investigations and the Yard Sale at the 18th Hole
  43. On the Curious Timing of Daniel Everette Hale’s Arrest
  44. The Orange Injector and the Troubling Tariffs
  45. Why Didn’t Mueller Hold Counterintelligence Suspect Mike Flynn Responsible for Sanctions Call?
  46. Undead Testify: Welcome to the Zombie Apocalypse
  47. Did Rod Rosenstein Pressure Mueller to Enter the Plea Deal with Paul Manafort?
  48. One Man’s Declination Decision Is Another Man’s Criminal Suspect Failson
  49. William Barr Absolved Trump of Obstruction without Having the Faintest Clue What He Obstructed
  50. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing: AG William Barr

April 2019

  1. Useful, but Willful, Idiot: “Page or” “Or JD Gordon” [Updated]
  2. The Politics of the Green New Deal: Conventional Wisdom
  3. Paul Manafort Violated Campaign Policy in Risking a Meeting with Konstantin Kilimnik on August 2, 2016
  4. RIP Damon Keith, The Once And Forever Crusader For Justice
  5. Trump’s Never-Declined Invitation from Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko
  6. What if Julian Assange Flipped?
  7. History’s Rhyme: Nixon’s Articles of Impeachment
  8. Why Did Mueller Include the June 9 Meeting Statement in His Obstruction Case?
  9. Giorgi Rtslchiladze’s Honor Has Been Sullied because He Can’t Decide Whether He Knows the Tapes He Suppressed Exist or Not
  10. The Dispute over the Accusation Maria Butina Is a Spotter Distracts from Clear Case She Should Be Sent Home
  11. The Commander-in-Chief Keeps Instructing His National Security Officials Not to Protect the Country
  12. Hell Hath No Fury Like a Self-Promoting Republican Lawyer Scorned
  13. Two Exceptions to Trump’s “Do Not Recall” Responses: A Limited Answer on an Assange Pardon and a Non-Answer on Sanctions Relief
  14. The Significance of Trump’s Obstruction of Investigation of His Family’s Campaign Finance Crimes, Plural
  15. Do the Right Thing: Break Some Eggs and Impeach
  16. How “Collusion” Appears in the Mueller Report
  17. Putin’s Ghost: The Counterintelligence Calculus Not Included in the Obstruction Analysis
  18. Working Twitter Threads on the Mueller Report
  19. MalwareTech Pleads Guilty
  20. The Trump Men and the Grand Jury Redactions
  21. Mueller’s Language about “Collusion,” Coordination, and Conspiracy
  22. The Many Lies and Prevarications of Bill Barr
  23. Three Things: Big Day, Big Top
  24. The Debate We May Be Having Tomorrow: If Trump Obstructed Justice to Hide Compromise by Russia, Could that Be a Crime?
  25. Our Lady of Paris
  26. Manafort’s Federal Life Sentence Might Just Get Longer
  27. The Assange Complaint Was Filed the Day the UK Rejected Assange’s Diplomatic Status
  28. How to Read the Mueller Report
  29. The Many Sided Stone: The Investigation Is Not Over
  30. The Logistics of the Julian Assange Indictment
  31. The Dangers of the Julian Assange Indictment
  32. You’re Fired (Undocumented Trump Worker): What Odd Timing
  33. It’s Plane to See: A Plane with Assange or Another One? [Updated]
  34. The Assange Indictment and The Rule of Specialty
  35. The Facts: There Is No Crisis and No Emergency, Just Trump’s Campaign
  36. The Politics Of The Green New Deal: More Democracy
  37. Trump’s Gone Full Jessep
  38. The Strongbad Bite, Ack!: Kagan’s Neocon Hypocrisy
  39. The Rwandan Genocide’s 25th Anniversary
  40. The Carr Correction and the Barr Pseudo Exoneration
  41. The Irony of Glenn Greenwald Cuddling Up with Bill Barr, the Grandfather of Ed Snowden’s Phone Dragnet
  42. The Significance of that Word, “Summary”
  43. The Parallel Tracks of Disclosure on Why Manafort Shared Campaign Polling Data with His Russian Co-Conspirator
  44. The Politics Of The Green New Deal: We Can’t Pay For That
  45. Three Things: This Ain’t No Fooling Around
  46. Oleg Deripaska’s Co-Columnist Admits Oleg Deripaska May Have Fed Christopher Steele Disinformation

March 2019

  1. Pressure Works: After Four Days, William Barr Capitulates and Gives an Estimated Page Count!!
  2. Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 President Election: The Redacted Mueller Report
  3. Three Things: Hey You, Mr./Ms./Mx. Pissed-Off
  4. The Grand Rapids Gerald Ford Tribute Reporters Should Visit
  5. The Roger Stone Indictment Proves Barr’s Memo Understates Trump Flunkies’ Complicity
  6. Three Times William Barr Said Trading Pardons for False Testimony Was Obstruction of Justice
  7. The Politics Of The Green New Deal: OMG It’s Socialism!
  8. Rod Rosenstein Didn’t Even Clear Trump on All the Topics He Hired Mueller to Investigate
  9. How William Barr Did Old Man Back-Flips to Avoid Arresting Donald Trump
  10. The Mueller Report, the Short Version
  11. Three Things: Boeing Boing
  12. Rod Rosenstein’s Unfortunate Vocabulary: Defining a Criminal Investigation by “Links” and “Collusion”
  13. After Mueller: An Off-Ramp on Russia for the Venal Fucks
  14. The Mueller Report Has Been Delivered
  15. There’s a Decent Chance Jon Karl’s Source Is Being or Was Investigated for Obstruction
  16. Why My Post Predicting the Mueller End Game Won’t Predict Anything
  17. The Politics of The Green New Deal: The Opposition Of The Rich
  18. The Predictable Result of Asymmetry in Terrorism Policing: Andrew McCabe’s Demise
  19. The More Interesting Michael Cohen Redactions: On Viktor Vekselberg
  20. The (Unsealed Parts of the) Michael Cohen Investigation
  21. By July 18, 2017, Mueller Had Probable Cause Michael Cohen Was an Unregistered Foreign Agent
  22. “I Can’t Be Seen Taking Credit for HIS Victory:” The Purpose of Roger Stone’s Paperback
  23. The Politics of the Green New Deal: Part 2 on Capital
  24. The “at Least One Other District” Mike Flynn’s Cooperation Live In
  25. Lisa Page Confirms that the Trump Campaign Investigation Was Different than Russian Info Ops Investigation
  26. Judge Amy Berman Jackson Lays the Precedent for FARA
  27. Mueller Is Close to Done, But the Andrew Weissmann Departure Is Overblown
  28. Paulie’s Very Bad Day: “If the People Don’t Have the Facts, Democracy Can’t Work.”
  29. Mike Flynn’s Cooperation and the Giglio Clock
  30. Roger Stone’s Seemingly Credible Excuse Starts Falling Apart Well before Bruce Rogow Asks for a Note from His Doctor
  31. The Future of Regulation in the Perma-Cyber-Infowar
  32. Keith Gartenlaub Challenges the Destroyed FISA Wall
  33. Dear Editors: Stop Trying to Predict the Mueller Report
  34. The Politics of The Green New Deal: Part 1
  35. Art of the Get-Screwed-in-Your-Russian-Quid-Pro-Quo Deal
  36. Two Trajectories: Sleazy Influence Peddler Paul Manafort and Foreign Agent Prosecutor Brandon Van Grack
  37. Mueller Has More Discovery on Roger Stone Alone than the Entire Trump Campaign Turned Over
  38. In Subpoenaing Chelsea Manning, the Government Picks a Likely Needless Fight with the Transparency Community Again
  39. Trump Administration Still Gaming Intelligence on Election Interference
  40. Which Came First: The Indemnity Fail or Cohen’s Cooperation Curiosity?
  41. The Ineffable Boiling Frog of Trump Scandal
  42. Eli Lake’s Serial Defense of Bibi Netanyahu’s Clandestine Tampering Makes Him the Poster Child Proving Ilhan Omar Right
  43. Surveillance Whack-a-Mole, Section 215 to Section 702 Edition
  44. Roger Stone Does the RICO Defense
  45. The Metadata of the HJC Requests
  46. Puzzling Through the House Requests
  47. Lawfare “Breaks” News: NSA Hasn’t Restarted the Section 215 CDR Function
  48. Conspiracy Theorist Jerome Corsi Finally Meets a Conspiracy Theory He’s Not Willing to Face Legal Jeopardy Over
  49. Foiling a Good Walk
  50. Come On Down Paul Gosar, The Latest Arizona Embarrassment

February 2019

  1. On the Exonerating Information Rick Gates Just Provided
  2. The May 18, 2017 Meeting with Trump, Jay Sekulow, and Michael Cohen
  3. Michael Cohen’s Testimony: Metacommentary
  4. Initial Working Thread on Cohen’s Prepared Testimony
  5. Did Mueller Ask Manafort Any Questions about His Early May 2016 Meeting with Kilimnik?
  6. Manafort’s Bid for a Pardon: No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion
  7. On August 2, 2016, Paul Manafort Gave Konstantin Kilimnik 75 Pages of Recent, Detailed Polling Data
  8. Back to School: Planning for Climate Change Activism Success
  9. Quid Pro Quo Redux, Part Two: Russian Government Involvement in All Three Conspiracy Agreements
  10. On Mueller’s Choice Not to Elaborate on Paulie’s Lies
  11. All the News Fit to Treat Badly
  12. Yesterday Noel Francisco Raised the Stakes on the Mystery Appellant
  13. How Amy Berman Jackson Got Roger Stone to Step in It and Then Step in It Again
  14. Three Things: Nuke Rebuke
  15. Plus-Delta Analysis: CNN’s New Political Hire Isgur Flores
  16. The Significance of the Rod Rosenstein / William Barr Window
  17. Questions to Ask before Reporting a BREAKING Mueller Report
  18. About the Two Investigations into Donald Trump
  19. Four Sentences: What the Legal System Has Said about the Suspect Loyalty of Trump’s Aides
  20. MalwareTech’s Judge Seems More Sympathetic to Hutchins about the Intent of Prosecution than the Law
  21. Urgent, Urgent: Head to the Phones
  22. Dan Coats Still Refusing to Provide the Evidence that Russia Didn’t Affect the Election
  23. Roger Stone and the Dozens of Search Warrants on Accounts Used to Facilitate the Transfer and Promotion of Stolen Democratic Emails
  24. The Unseen Aspects of Paul Manafort’s Lies and Truth-Telling Are as Telling as the Ones We’ve Seen
  25. Open Thread: A Mournful Valentine [UPDATE]
  26. The Green New Deal Challenges The Domination Of Capital
  27. Amy Berman Jackson Rules that Manafort Lied about Possible Criminal Activity Related to Donald Trump’s Campaign
  28. Bamford’s Silence about How Maria Butina Got Thrown Back into Solitary
  29. On SSCI’s Investigation: Manafort “Conspired” Whether or Not Trump Also “Colluded”
  30. FBI Finally Moves to Fix Its Text Retention Problem — and Mobile Phone Security
  31. A Primer on How to Read: So the NYT Can Stop Telling Paul Manafort’s Lies
  32. Vertical Demand Curve: When Your Money or Your Life Isn’t a Choice
  33. Quid Pro Quo Redux, Part One: The Trump Tower Dangle
  34. What We Know about the “Other” Investigation about which Paul Manafort Lied
  35. Introduction To Discourse Analysis
  36. Paul Manafort Sold Out Donald Trump — and His Anonymous Leakers Are Lying about It Publicly
  37. If It’s The Weekend, It Must Be Golf
  38. Roger Stone Adopts the Russian Troll Evidence-Phishing Technique
  39. Open Thread: Is that a Smile? [UPDATE]
  40. Statement on Using “Big Dick Toilet Salesman”
  41. Pardons and Spooks: The Back Story of Paulie’s Plea
  42. Big Dick Toilet Salesman Matt Whitaker Crams for His Open Book Test
  43. A Focus on Florida: What Happened to the Three Campaign Officials Chatting with Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s Trolls?
  44. Was Facebook Biased or Was It Manipulated?
  45. The WaPo Scoop on the DNC Hack (Temporarily) Killed the Trump Tower Deal
  46. Felix Sater Promised a Putin Meeting with Michael Cohen Minutes after Don Jr Promised to Revisit Magnitsky Sanctions
  47. The Timing of the Inauguration Subpoena
  48. KonMari-ing the Confederacy’s Son
  49. 45 Days Plus 45 Days: Is Trump Violating His Own Election Tampering Executive Order?
  50. Fun with Dr. Corsi’s “Forensics”!
  51. Super Bowl Sunday 2019 Trash Talk
  52. Jerome Corsi’s Theory of Roger the Rat-Fucker’s Mule Prosecution
  53. A Good Walk Foiled
  54. NYT’s Trump Interview: Money for Nothing and Clicks for Free

January 2019

  1. Terabytes of Rat-Fucker Data Trail
  2. The Disinformation Campaign Targeting Mueller and the Delayed Briefing to SSCI on Russian Election Interference
  3. A Neoliberal Argument for Medicare for All
  4. Let Them Eat (Starbucks’ Coffee) Cake
  5. The Big Dick Toilet Salesman Speaks
  6. Unwinding a Multithreaded Beast
  7. Two Details That Many Are Missing in/about the Stone Indictment
  8. Golf for Fun and Profit(eering)
  9. How Roger the Rat Fucked Himself
  10. Things Not Said in Roger Stone’s Indictment: “Trump Directed” and Other More Damning Details
  11. Day 34+12H: Ermahgerd, an Ermahgency
  12. Reading Roger’s Indictment
  13. Mueller Plays Hardball with Roger Stone
  14. Day 33+11H: Flood the Zone
  15. It’s Not So Much that Manafort Lied and Lied and Lied, It’s that His Truth Evolved
  16. How Trump “Directed” Don Jr’s June 9 “No Follow-Up” False Statement to Congress
  17. Jerome Corsi’s Gazillion Dollar Lawsuit Against the Same Media Targets that Individual-1 Is Targeting
  18. Day 32+11H: Trump’s Other Wall
  19. A Primer On Ideology
  20. Rudy Is Relying on Tapes to Claim Buzzfeed Is Phony: But There Aren’t Tapes of Everything
  21. Trump’s Lawyers Raised Concerns with Mueller’s Office about Testimony They Shouldn’t Know Whether Is Phony or Not
  22. Open Thread: Don’t Shoot the Freezer
  23. Rudy Claims Credit for Peter Carr’s Correction of BuzzFeed, Which Had the Goal of Tamping Down Impeachment Talk
  24. Championship Sunday 2019 Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler
  25. The House Intelligence Committee Can and Should Subpoena the 18-Minute Gap on the Trump Tower Deal
  26. DAG Rod Rosenstein Involves Himself in Mueller’s Press Response to Buzzfeed Story
  27. The SCO Statement and Why Cohen Should Not Testify Feb. 7
  28. Shutdown Day 28+15H: When Negotiations Fail, Add More Hostages
  29. Peter Carr Speaks
  30. Into Shutdown Day 28: Is the GOP Senate Obstructing Justice?
  31. Compromise: Before Trump Won His First Primary, Putin Collected His First Receipt
  32. About the BuzzFeed Scoop: It’s Important, But It Oversells the Lying Part
  33. On the Matter of Mitch: Perhaps Not Where but Why
  34. How to Talk about Impeachment: Preventing Harm to the Country
  35. Why Is Trump in a Joint Defense Agreement with Manafort If Rudy Concedes Manafort May Have “Colluded”?
  36. William Barr’s Asymmetric Confusion about Shitty Mueller Reporting
  37. Manafort Was Pursuing a Ukrainian “Peace” Deal Well After He Was Charged for Lying about Being an Agent of Ukraine
  38. The Lady (Trump’s Tantrum) or the Tiger (GOP Senators Get Spines) [UPDATE-2]
  39. Compromise: Sally Yates’ Warning about Vulnerability to Blackmail Applied to Trump Even More than Mike Flynn
  40. The Shutdown, Day 23: An Apology, A Prod, and a Call
  41. William Barr Falsely Denies His Mueller Memo Makes the Case for Impeachment
  42. The Supreme Court Has Already Agreed that the Mystery Appellant Caused a “Direct Effect” in the United States
  43. Trump’s “Official Acts” to Pay Off a Russian Bribe Should Make Impeachment a Legal Issue, Not Just a Political One
  44. Divisional Playoffs 2019
  45. A Less Obvious Question about NYT’s Reporting on Trump-Russia
  46. Stays: Another Reason for the Shutdown?
  47. Paul Manafort’s Ongoing Conspiracy with Suspected Russian Agent Konstantin Kilimnik
  48. 21 People with the Power to Stop the Madness [UPDATE-2]
  49. Twitter Only Had SMS 2FA When Hal Martin’s Twitter Account DMed Kaspersky
  50. Oleg Deripaska Met Sergei Millian at the St. Petersburg Forum Michael Cohen Would Have Met Putin
  51. Manafort Claims He Can’t Be a Witness to Trump’s Conspiracy with Russia because He Managed the Campaign
  52. There’s No Crisis at the Border — There’s a Crisis in the White House
  53. Manafort’s Redaction Fail Tells Trump that Mueller Caught Him Lying about His Russian Handler, Konstantin Kilimnik
  54. Trump’s 200 Million Inauguration Visitors and $15 Million Net Worth: The Scale of His Border Lies
  55. Robert Mueller Finally Found a Way to Get Paul Manafort to Keep a Secret
  56. Will the Press Recognize They Also Deserve a Scolding for Parroting Eric Dubelier’s Nude Selfie Stunt?
  57. It Is False and Defamatory to Accuse WikiLeaks of a Bunch of Things that Aren’t the Key Allegations against It
  58. On Narrating Donald Trump: “Shoot me like I’m shot on ‘The Apprentice'”
  59. Dancing With Ms. AOC (and other weekend talk)
  60. Attacking The Neoliberal Ideology
  61. The William Barr Case for Impeaching Donald Trump: From Whom Did Trump Suborn False Statements?
  62. Prosecutors Cite Osiris in an Attempt to Resuscitate Dead Law against Marcus Hutchins
  63. Impeachment and the Narcissist’s Off-Ramp
  64. Sam Patten Reminds Us Cooperation Deals Are Not Cookie Cutters

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