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December 2022

  1. Year-End SCOTUS Rant
  2. Ali Alexander Asked for 5-Minute Updates on Trump’s Actions on January 6
  3. Techniques Of Power
  4. Supporting Those Who Make Good Trouble
  5. Judge Jesse Furman Gives DOJ 3 Pages to Reply to emptywheel’s Bid to Liberate Sealed Transcripts on the Espionage Act
  6. Greg Abbott, King Herod, and December 28th
  7. The Money Trail Stuck in an Appendix of the January 6 Report
  8. “Dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter:” Elvis Chan, Hacks, the Klan, and the Twitter Files
  9. Michigan’s Fake Electors’ Transcripts Limn Black Holes into January 6
  10. December 27: The January 6 Committee’s Blind Spots
  11. Where Is The J6 Committee Beef?
  12. Zelenskyy wasn’t the First Ukrainian President to Address a Joint Meeting of Congress
  13. The J6C Transcripts: Patrick Byrne’s Conduit, Garrett Ziegler
  14. The Fourth Account: The Grand Jury Investigation into Jeffrey Clark and Others
  15. The Thinness of the January 6 Committee’s Obstruction Referral
  16. House January 6 Committee: Introductory Material to the Final Report
  17. Leaving Las Birdas
  18. Held Hostage by the Barmy Bird
  19. After the Deluge: What’s Next on Mastodon for Journalism? [UPDATE-2]
  20. Elmo and the Urge to Purge [UPDATE-3]
  21. The Day after I Blew Off Josh Schulte He Started Deleting “Suspicious Emails”
  22. Witnessing the Proud Boys
  23. Follow the Money: Merrick Garland Told You So
  24. Judge Aileen Cannon Dismisses Donald Trump’s Documents Challenge
  25. Elon Musk’s Self-Described “Crime Scene”
  26. Pastoral Power
  27. Three Things: Goodbye to the Once and Former Shitty Crustpunk Bar
  28. If a Bear Shits in a Sealed CIPA Conference, Can It Expand the Espionage Act to the NYT’s Readers?
  29. DOJ Moves for Contempt as Injunction Finally Lifted
  30. The Rules Against Keeping Classified Documents in an Unsecure RV Parked alongside Jeremy Brown’s Home
  31. Another Late September Russian Influence Peddler Indictment
  32. Two Inconsistent Stories on Additional Searches of Trump’s Property
  33. A Counter Perspective: On the House January 6 Committee’s Impending Referrals
  34. Special Counsel Jack Smith Taught DOJ How to Alphabetize by Last Name! A Tale of Two Subpoenas, and Other Self-Mockery
  35. The J6 Committee Proves Themselves To Be Suspect Media Whores
  36. “Tentacles” with the “Potential to Spiral:” Geoffrey Berman, Bill Barr, and Hunter Biden’s Dick Pics
  37. Trump Is a Mob Boss Whose Omertà Has Started to Fail
  38. Chrissie
  39. Matty Taibbi’s Dick Pics
  40. “We Have a Plan. I’m with Rufio” … But the Government Does Not
  41. After the Neo-Nazi Demands More Support from Trump for January 6 Defendants, Trump Delivers
  42. Resistance To Power
  43. 11th Circuit to Trump: You’re Not Special
  44. More on the Government’s January 6 Google GeoFence

November 2022

  1. Skull and Bones: The Proud Boys’ Non-Conspiratorial Secret Society?
  2. On the Shoddy Journalistic Defense of “WikLeaks”
  3. Elmer Stewart Rhodes Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy
  4. On Trump, the Anti-Semites, and the Coup Attempt: The Import of Nick Fuentes’ Reference to January 6
  5. How Richard Barnett Could Delay Resourcing of the Trump Investigation
  6. Trash Talk: Here for ‘The Big Game’
  7. Flipping the Bird: Social Media Update
  8. Litigating “‘Normies’ Smash[ing] Some Pigs to Dust” in the Proud Boy Leader Conspiracy
  9. Turkey in Limerick
  10. Open Thread: Countdown to T-Day
  11. Trump Finally Describes How FBI Injured Him: By Taking his Celine Dion Picture
  12. Ransacked! 120 Minutes before 11th Circuit Hearing, Trump Attempts to Create a Fourth Amendment Injury
  13. 11th Circuit Showdown: The Fight to Get the Documents to Charge against Trump
  14. The Curiosity of Norm Pattis’ Third January 6 Client’s Delayed Arrest
  15. Trash Talk: Dead on the Field
  16. What If the Special Counsel Is about Scott Perry, not Just Donald Trump?
  17. Merrick Garland Names War Crimes Prosecutor Jack Smith to Oversee Trump Investigations
  18. Aileen Cannon’s Special Master Review Helped DOJ Prepare for a Key Witness Interview
  19. What that Report Purportedly Authenticating the “Hunter Biden” “Laptop” Really Said
  20. Three Things: Twitter Death Watch in Progress
  21. Welcome to the Jim Jordan and James Comer Look the Other Way Committees, Brought to You By Access Journalism
  22. “An Entire Universe of Malfeasance, Corruption, and Depravity:” Joel Greenberg Promotes the Value of His Snitching
  23. Three Things: The Early Bird Got Wormed
  24. Spy Versus Spy Amid the Proud Boys, Again
  25. Devlin Barrett’s “People Familiar with the Matter”
  26. A Parliamentary Congress or a Batshit One?
  27. SDNY Closes Ukraine Influence Peddling Investigation into Rudy
  28. Government Asks Raymond Dearie to Recommend Judge Cannon Lift Injunction on 2,794 Documents
  29. Merrick Garland Hasn’t Done the Specific Thing You Want because DOJ Has Been Busy Doing Things They Have to Do First
  30. Andy McCarthy Gives Frothers Permission to Approve of a Trump Indictment
  31. In the Wake of Trump’s Third Electoral Failure, NYTimes Boasts of Hiring a Third Trump-Whisperer
  32. The Tanking of Twitter
  33. Trump’s Secret Document, with the Post-Administration Pollster Communication, in His Desk Drawer
  34. My Veterans Day
  35. Yes, DOJ Is Reportedly Investigating the 2018 Election that Trump Just Invoked with Ron DeSantis
  36. Judge Sanctions Alina Habba for Misrepresenting Igor Danchenko Indictment
  37. After a Year of Executive Privilege Fights, Mike Pence Just Tweeted It Out
  38. As Pre-Election Pause Comes to an End, Look First to Arizona (and Nevada and Georgia)
  39. Oprah Beats Trump!
  40. Mid-Term Election 2022: Control of Congress and Reproductive Rights [UPDATE-7]
  41. Head of Republican Party Attempts to Stave Off Multiple Indictments by Announcing Candidacy Early
  42. Judge Raymond Dearie Prepares to Consult with the Archives
  43. Vote NO on ‘Flaw and Disorder’ Republican Attorneys General
  44. Trash Talk: It’s All Over But The Screaming
  45. Boris Epshteyn’s Clearance Problems
  46. Tom Barrack Acquitted on All Counts
  47. Trump Prosecutions: Making Tea While Awaiting the Post-Election Flood
  48. Lasciando il matrimonio di Elmo
  49. Elmo’s Forced Marriage
  50. The Intercept Helps Protect Rudy Giuliani’s Lies about Ruby Freeman
  51. The Roger Stone Convergence at the Winter Palace
  52. Former Secret Cooperator Enrique Tarrio Reveals a Secret Cooperation Deal

October 2022

  1. Trash Talk: Begin with the End in Mind
  2. Power And Rationality
  3. AMERICA, WE HAVE A PRIVACY PROBLEM
  4. DOJ Rethinks — but in a Few Areas, Expands — Access to Media Content
  5. Kash Patel’s Immunized Testimony Is about Premeditation, Not (Just) about Declassification
  6. The Intelligence Gaps Where the Saudis Hid Their October Surprise
  7. “Fuck! Two years or three years, screw you, they will get you when it’s time”
  8. Friends of Sedition: The Networked January 6 Conspiracy
  9. Trash Talk: Kiss My Ash
  10. Trump Subpoena: The Revolution Will Not Be Signaled
  11. Bill Barr Complains that His Special Counsel Was Unable to Match Robert Mueller’s Record of Success
  12. In Both Bannon and Stolen Document Cases, Trump’s Associates Claim He Is Still President
  13. Jim Trusty Tells Hand-Picked Special Master Raymond Dearie to Fuck Off
  14. Fronting for OVD: A Third Deripaska-Focused Indictment from Late September
  15. “Sometimes We Fall in Love with Our Sources”
  16. John Eastman Emails Show Trump Knowingly Lied in Georgia Lawsuit
  17. John Durham Avenged Warrants Targeting Carter Page by Getting a Warrant Targeting Sergei Millian
  18. Judge Aileen Cannon Risked the Safety of the Country to Protect Two Probably Public Letters
  19. Sabrina Shroff Really Wants to Meet in Person with Josh Schulte
  20. Igor Danchenko Acquitted on All Remaining Charges
  21. Judge Dearie Confirms Trump Has Claimed Executive Privilege Over a Personal Document
  22. 1,500 Investigative Subjects: A Competent Google GeoFence Motion to Suppress for January 6
  23. John Durham’s Last Word: An Outright Lie about the Mueller Conclusions
  24. On Steve Bannon’s Epically Bad Faith
  25. Trash Talk: Get (Fourth) Down and Dirty
  26. John Durham’s Missing Signals (and FaceTime and WhatsApp and iPad)
  27. John Durham Created a False Pee Tape Panic Based Off a “Literally True” Alleged Lie
  28. On Trump’s Subpoena and Marc Short’s Testimony
  29. As John Durham Preps for his Closing Report, His Own Withholdings become Key
  30. Update: SCOTUS Will Not Intervene [Yet] In Trump’s Stolen Documents Claim
  31. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Day 9 [UPDATE-1]
  32. “It Certainly Sounds Creepy:” John Durham Adopts the “Coffee Boy” Defense
  33. John Durham Twice Misread Steele Dossier Sourcing to Invent a Partisan Claim
  34. Justice Jackson’s Brilliant Debut
  35. On August 8, There Were at Least 73 Items Where the FBI Had Seen 50-55 Boxes on June 3
  36. John Durham’s Re-Virgined Birth of the Carter Page and Sergei Millian Investigations
  37. Oleg Deripaska’s UK-Based Property Manager, Graham Bonham-Carter, Arrested for Extradition
  38. Before SCOTUS, DOJ Argues Trump Has Shown No Harm
  39. Igor Danchenko Would Have Been a Crucial Witness to Understanding the Disinformation in the Dossier
  40. Boris Epshteyn Enters the Three-Person Chat
  41. Trash Talk: Monday Night Bites
  42. Imagine If Maggie Had Reported that Vladimir Putin Dictated Trump’s June 9 Meeting Cover Story?
  43. Trump’s File B-076: Calvinball Ping Pong
  44. After 37 Days, Raymond Dearie Ends the Harm Judge Aileen Cannon Deliberately Inflicted on Donald Trump
  45. The Additional Complexities of the Proud Boy Sedition Case
  46. Big Criminal Justice News — and Not So Big Criminal Justice Not News
  47. FBI Allegedly Found Child Sexual Abuse Material When It Searched Josh Schulte’s Discovery Laptop
  48. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Pending
  49. Judge Aileen Cannon Treated a Public Letter about Trump’s Health as More Sensitive than America’s National Security
  50. Anthony Trenga Smothers the Frothers’ Hopes for a Pee Tape Trial … But Not the Damage Done by Credulous Press
  51. How Trump’s SCOTUS Appeal Shows Why He’s Got a Weaker Legal Argument than a [Former] Gitmo Detainee
  52. FBI Approved Igor Danchenko as a Source before It Stopped Doing Back-Door FISA Searches to Vet Informants
  53. Aileen Cannon Deliberately Harmed Trump To Create an Excuse to Help Him
  54. What Happened with the Potentially Privileged Documents Seized from Mar-a-Lago
  55. NARA Asked for 24 Boxes … Trump Gave Them 15
  56. DOJ Inspector General Report on the Tensions Created by Parallel Construction
  57. Trash Talk: Much Trash, Very Sport, So Talk
  58. Aileen Cannon’s Calvinball Special Master
  59. Stop Magnifying the Former President’s Incitement

September 2022

  1. FBI Seems to Be Collecting Offers to Spy for Russia
  2. “Somewhat Convoluted:” Debunking the Judge Cannon Claims
  3. Aileen Cannon Is Stiff-Arming the Press
  4. Aileen Cannon Stomps on the Scales of Trumpy Injustice
  5. Oleg Deripaska Indicted for His Anchor Baby and Flowers for a TV Host
  6. The Claimed 200,000 Pages Trump Stole Include Press Clippings
  7. The Gaslighter’s Psychiatrist: My Response to Dan Drezner
  8. Under Seal, Trump Accuses Hand-Picked Special Master of Not Following Orders
  9. Trump’s Shaky Privilege to Hide His Pence Pressure
  10. When Steven Engel and Ed O’Callaghan Said It Was Legal for Russia to Hack Hillary
  11. Trash Talk: Not Exactly Favre-nügen
  12. John Durham Wants to Lecture EDVA Jurors about Being Played by Foreign Spies
  13. Three Questions at the Start of an Intelligence Review
  14. Just Following Orders: Raymond Dearie’s Strict Compliance with Aileen Cannon’s Orders
  15. Cause the Harm, and Then Say Nothing: Trump Has Had Aileen Cannon’s Proof of His Injury for a Week and Said Nothing
  16. Granting Stay, 11th Circuit Scolds Aileen Cannon for Ignoring Executive Assertions on National Security
  17. DOJ Raises Prospect that Trump Continues to Obstruct Investigation, Including of Empty Folders
  18. Trump Sweeps Evidence of Obstruction under the Appellate Rug
  19. Don’t Analyze Trump Legal Filings Based on the Law, Analyze Them Based on Power
  20. Trump Wants Two Weeks to Review 64 Documents; DOJ Expects Review of 500 Documents a Day
  21. “The Rule of Law is not assured:” The Cascading Constitutional Crisis Judge Aileen Cannon Deliberately Created
  22. On the Belated Education of John Durham
  23. Only Eric Herschmann (and Maybe Christina Bobb) Learned the Steve Bannon Lesson
  24. In Motion for a Stay, DOJ Raises Prospect that Trump Leaked Classified Documents
  25. Trust: In Bid for Stay, DOJ Likened Trump to Catastrophic Intelligence Compromise
  26. That Other Bitter Jan6er about to Start Trial for Bringing Classified Documents Home from Work
  27. Aileen Cannon’s Special Master Is Designed to Preempt Decisions Reserved for a Jury
  28. Judge Aileen Cannon Deems Grand Jury Subpoenas Toilet Paper
  29. Aileen Cannon Orders Government to Share Classified Information with Trump’s Counsel
  30. Judicial Tyranny And The Atomized Society
  31. Evan Corcoran’s Two May 25 Stall Letters
  32. Durham Admits He Has No Real Evidence on Four Millian Counts against Igor Danchenko
  33. Yes, Trump Was Making Notes on Classified Documents
  34. “A Coat Rack with Suit Jackets, as Well as Interior Décor Items Such as Wall Art and Frames”
  35. Carolyn Maloney Provides NARA Cause to Assert Standing
  36. DOJ Prepares to Pull Multiple January 6 Threads Together
  37. Donald Trump Agrees He Is Living By Barack Obama’s Rules
  38. Faster and Furiouser: Ukraine’s Forces Take Back Kharkiv Oblast and More
  39. The Full-Fitton: Trump’s Funny Math with the Federal Records Act
  40. In Bid to Keep Executive from Accessing Executive Branch Documents, Trump Confesses to Obstruction
  41. Open Thread: Would You Fly to Dulles Wearing Golf Shoes?
  42. 18 USC 793(g): Aileen Cannon’s Order Would Not Forestall Flipping Trump’s Custodian of Records
  43. What Family Rifts at Funerals can Teach Us About Pardoning Presidents
  44. DOJ Has at Least One Card Left to Play: Congress’ Instinct for Self-Preservation
  45. Trump Proposes a New Plan to Steal Classified Documents
  46. Perfect Specimen: Government Records about the Mazars Lawsuit and Trump’s COVID Treatment Would Be Government Records
  47. A Likely Looming Battle in the Stolen Document Case: Classified White House Counsel Documents
  48. The Tactics of DOJ’s Request for a Partial Stay of Judge Cannon’s Order
  49. Regina Mortua Est, Vivat Rex
  50. Hatchet Speed Arrested on a Small Part of his $50,000 “Panic Buying” Arsenal
  51. Team Trump Knows Details of the Investigation that Jay Bratt Does Not — and Trump’s Already Leaking Them
  52. NARA May Have Pre-Existing Legal Obligations with Respect to Documents Covered by Aileen Cannon’s Order
  53. Aileen Cannon Prioritized Donald Trump’s Reputation over CIA Assets’ Lives
  54. Judge Aileen Cannon’s Funny Ideas about Being Owned
  55. Aileen Cannon Calls an Investigation into “What’s Literally a Stolen Diary” … “Politicized”
  56. Judge Aileen Cannon Thinks 64 Tax and Medical Records No Investigator Has Read are More Important than 11,282 Stolen Government Documents
  57. Evan Corcoran Keeps Arguing that Evan Corcoran Didn’t Do a Diligent Search
  58. “Desperate at Best:” Igor Danchenko Starts Dismantling John Durham’s Case against Him
  59. On Serena
  60. The FBI Seized No Boxes with Press Clippings that Postdate November 2020
  61. Beryl Howell Says the Surveillance Video Subpoena Was June 24, Not June 22
  62. Index And Introduction To The Subject And Power By Michel Foucault
  63. Return to Sender: DOJ Seized Evidence that Up to 90 Highly Sensitive Documents May Have Disappeared
  64. Kellye SoRelle: Oath Keeper Capper or Potential Pivot?
  65. No One Puts Roger Stone in a Box

August 2022

  1. That Bratt-I-Am, That Bratt-I-Am, I Do Not Like That Bratt-I-Am
  2. How DOJ Continues to Build Its Case that Trump Improperly Retained National Defense Information
  3. Christina Bobb Claimed No Copies of the Stolen Classified Documents Had Been Made
  4. Trump Stored Some of the Nation’s Most Sensitive Secrets with His Framed Time Magazine Cover
  5. “The President Was … Working in a Filing Room”
  6. One Big Potentially Pending Question: What Happens to Trump’s Impeachment 1.0 Papers?
  7. Key Details about Evan Corcoran that Evan Corcoran Did Not Disclose to Judge Aileen Cannon
  8. Six Days: Trump’s Second Whack Filing Is Too Late
  9. Did Kash Patel Already Confess to Illegally Disseminating Carter Page FISA Information?
  10. The Elements of the Offense for an 18 USC 793e Prosecution
  11. Trump Had Human, Signals, and FISA Intelligence in an Insecure Room at Mar-a-Lago for a Year
  12. How To Be a Handmaiden to Corruption, Barr Memo Press Coverage Edition
  13. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart Accepts DOJ’s Proposed Redactions
  14. Two People Plead Guilty in Conspiracy to Transport Ashley Biden Diary
  15. The Word “Pardon” Doesn’t Appear in the Barr Memo
  16. Bill Barr Performed the Corruption He Was Trying To Deny
  17. The Redacted Mar-a-Lago Affidavit DOJ Should Submit
  18. The Barr Memo Relied on Covering Up the Ongoing Roger Stone Conspiracy Investigation
  19. Christina Bobb, Custodian of Records and Coup Conspirator
  20. The Day After Paul Sperry Claimed Trump Had Been Hiding January 6 Documents, DOJ Subpoenaed the Archives Again
  21. A Roger Stone Pardon for MacronLeaks Isn’t As Crazy as It Sounds
  22. Mastering Obstruction: Two of Trump’s Attorneys May Be Witnesses or Suspects
  23. Archives Letter Demonstrates Import of Past Kash Patel Claim of Declassification
  24. Trump’s Reneges on Promised Significant Fourth Amendment Filing
  25. In Jesse Benton Case, DOJ Says a Trump Pardon Does Not Blot Out Guilt
  26. Next Steps in the Trump Stolen Documents Investigation
  27. Demands for Sua Sponte Do-Overs and Billy Barr’s Thought Experiment about Trump’s Criminality
  28. Maggie Haberman: Heads It’s Only Obstruction, Tails It’s Not Obstruction
  29. The Known and Likely Content of Trump’s Search Warrant
  30. Which of the Many Investigations Trump Has Obstructed Is DOJ Investigating?
  31. The French President May Be Contained Inside the Roger Stone Clemency
  32. Rule of Law: DOJ Obtained Trump’s Privilege-Waived Documents in May
  33. Women Led The Move To Farming
  34. Pat Philbin Knows Why the Bodies Are Buried
  35. There Are 5,000 More Like Ricky Shiffer
  36. How Trump’s Search Worked, with Nifty Graphic
  37. Trump’s Latest Tirade Proves Any Temporary Restraining Order May Come Too Late
  38. The ABCs (and Provisions e, f, and g) of the Espionage Act
  39. Trump’s Timid (Non-Legal) Complaints about Attorney-Client Privilege
  40. 18 USC 793e in the Time of Shadow Brokers and Donald Trump
  41. Other Possible Classified Materials in Trump’s Safe
  42. Obstruction: The Two-Receipt Search of the Former President’s Golf Resort
  43. Trump’s Stolen Documents
  44. John Solomon and Kash Patel May Be Implicated in the FBI’s Trump-Related Espionage Act Investigation
  45. Merrick Garland Preaches to an Overseas Audience
  46. Three Ways Merrick Garland and DOJ Spoke of Trump as if He Might Be Indicted
  47. The Legal and Political Significance of Nuclear Document[s] Trump Is Suspected to Have Stolen
  48. Merrick Garland Calls Trump’s Bluff
  49. Trump Keeps Using the Word “Cooperate.” I Do Not Think That Word Means What Trump Wants the Press To Think It Means
  50. Expected Response is Expected: Trump and Right-Wing DARVO
  51. DOJ’s June Mar-a-Lago Trip Helps Prove 18 USC 793e
  52. The Likely Content of a Trump Search Affidavit
  53. A Different DOJ Search of Note: Joshua Schulte
  54. All Republican Gang of Eight Members Condone Large-Scale Theft of Classified Information, Press Yawns
  55. Some Likely Exacerbating Factors that Would Contribute to a Trump Search
  56. FBI Executes a Search Warrant at 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480
  57. Brandon Straka’s Cell
  58. Cultural Differentiation In Non-Agricultural Societies
  59. The Accidental Exposure of DOJ’s Misdemeanor Plea Deals
  60. “It’s a Tremendous Amount of Information:” The Details about Alex Jones’ Phone
  61. DOJ Is Suing Peter Navarro (But Not Ivanka or Mark Meadows)
  62. The “Subject” of Robert Costello’s Declination
  63. Alex Jones’ Lawyers Accidentally Shared His Entire Phone with Sandy Hook Plaintiff Lawyers
  64. Pat Cipollone Wants Trump to Know He’s Still Protecting Him
  65. Mid-Term Election 2022: August 2 Primary Elections and Ballot Initiatives [UPDATE-3]
  66. Mid-Term Election 2022: August 2 Primary, Arizona Edition [UPDATE-2]
  67. The Evidentiary Hole in the Middle of Ari Melber’s “Not anything but evidence”
  68. More than Twenty Transcripts: The January 6 Committee’s Investigation into Fake Electors
  69. Mapping the Scenes of the Crimes

July 2022

  1. Constructive Action: Make It Rain [UPDATE-1]
  2. Three Things: Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About
  3. A Tale of Three January 6 Misdemeanors: Steve Bannon, Baked Alaska, and Hatchet Speed
  4. Liz Cheney’s Women in White Fighting Donald Trump’s Deceit
  5. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Day 8
  6. What Lisa Monaco Said about Charging a Hypothetical Former President
  7. If You Need to Panic about DOJ’s Investigation into January 6, Panic First about Doug Mastriano
  8. The Discovery Refrigerator: When Joshua Schulte Social Engineered His Cellmate’s Brother
  9. What DOJ Was Doing While You Were Wasting Time Whinging on Twitter
  10. How Adam Schiff Proves that Adam Schiff Is Lying that It Is “Unprecedented” for Congress to Be Ahead of DOJ
  11. How Josh Schulte Got Judge Jesse Furman to Open a File in Internet Explorer
  12. Joshua Schulte Found Guilty on All Counts
  13. How Trump’s Ad-Libbed Changes Led Directly to Assaults on Cops
  14. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Day 7
  15. Cassidy Hutchinson Is a Superb Witness — to Get Other Witnesses against Trump
  16. Trump’s Attorney Debunked Trump’s Claim to Have Invoked Executive Privilege Two Weeks Ago
  17. Steve Bannon, 30 Second Man
  18. On Oath Keeper Jeremy Brown’s Asymmetric Treatment
  19. WaPo Says It’s Breaking News That They’ve Been Duped by Latest Trump-Bannon Lie
  20. Robert Costello Reveals He Was Working for Steve Bannon a Year before He Was Publicly Hired
  21. The Josh Schulte Trial Moves to Deliberations
  22. Georgia Grand Jury Subpoenas Include False State Farm Arena Claims
  23. South Carolinians Converging at the East Door … and Hampton Inn
  24. A Republic, If You Can Keep It
  25. Open Thread: Summer Sunday Afternoon
  26. Amid Claims of Witness Tampering, Revisiting Peter Navarro’s Alleged Contempt

June 2022

  1. The Men Disputing Cassidy Hutchinson’s Retelling of Trump’s SUV Lunge Got Warnings about Plans to Flood the Capitol
  2. Something Stinks about Kentucky but It’s a Complex Stink
  3. Open Thread: SCOTUS End of Term Releases
  4. Pat Cipollone Predicted the Obstruction and ConFraudUS Prosecutions
  5. Cassidy Hutchinson Proves that Trump Knew the Mob He Sicced on Mike Pence Was Armed
  6. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Day 6
  7. As Ali Alexander Returns to DC in Wake of Grand Jury Appearance, Alex Jones’ Associates Owen Shroyer and Joe Biggs Share a Lawyer
  8. “All Texts Demanded!” Right Wingers No Longer Worried about “Wiped” Phones, John Eastman Edition…
  9. Jeffrey Clark: Physics Takes Over the Investigation Now
  10. Constructive Action: Taking Back Real Control of the Senate
  11. Sam Alito Strips Women of their Bodily Autonomy [Updated]
  12. Bill Barr’s Attempt to Corrupt EDNY May Have Saved the Republic
  13. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Day 5
  14. Open Thread: SCOTUS Release Day 2 of 2
  15. In Sentencing Memo, SDNY Scoffs at Lev Parnas’ Claims of Cooperation
  16. Crime in the Era of Encrypted Apps: The Relationship between the DOJ and January 6 Investigations into Fake Electors
  17. Amy Berman Jackson Gets a Two-Page Footnote in for the Appeal of Carl Nichols
  18. Three Months Later, DOJ Finally Gets Interested in Sidney Powell’s Militia Defense Fund
  19. Rudy Giuliani Launched a Lynch Mob over a Ginger Mint
  20. The L-Word Not Used [UPDATE-1]
  21. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Day 4
  22. Open Thread: SCOTUS Release Day 1 of 2
  23. Maybe Merrick Garland Already Made Some of the Decisions Everyone Thinks Are Pending?
  24. Priti Patel Approves Julian Assange’s Extradition
  25. Forty Feet: Trump Sicced a Murder Weapon on Mike Pence
  26. Why January 6 Committee Transcripts Are Urgent: Proud Boy Jeremy Bertino
  27. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Day 3
  28. The “We the People Plan” Is Evidence of Tarrio’s Motive, But Not His Plan
  29. The Sophistication Of Forager Societies
  30. Junkets In Lieu of Investigation: John Durham Charged Igor Danchenko without Ever Interviewing George Papdopoulos about Sergei Millian
  31. January 6 Committee Details The Big Fraud Monetizing The Big Lie
  32. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Day 2 [UPDATE-1]
  33. Three Things: Something Truck-ed This Way Comes
  34. On Josh Schulte’s Continued Attempts to Hack the Judicial System
  35. The Masters Of Faster Talk Of Trash
  36. The January 6 Militia Witnesses Are Cooperating with DOJ, Probably Not the January 6 Committee
  37. The Peaceful Transfer of Power: What President Reagan Called, “Nothing Less than a Miracle”
  38. House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings – Day 1 [UPDATE-1]
  39. Trash Talk: NBA Finals Games and More
  40. Prep for the January 6 Committee Hearings: Focus on 18 USC 372
  41. “Something Like This Has 0 Repercussions if You Mess Up:” John Durham Debunked the Alfa Bank Debunkery
  42. It’s Your Economy, Stupid GOPr
  43. Quoting Enrique Tarrio Invoking “The Winter Palace,” DOJ Charges the Proud Boys with Sedition
  44. 3 Things: GOP’s Continuing Deadly Assault on America
  45. John Durham’s Igor Danchenko Case May Be More Problematic than His Michael Sussmann Case
  46. The Ongoing Investigation into Paul Manafort’s Handlers
  47. Peter Navarro Thinks He’s Better than the 800 Other January 6 Defendants
  48. Trash Talk: NBA Finals Games 1+2, French Open Tennis, MLB, NFL
  49. Peter Navarro Had No Privileged Communications with Donald Trump’s Lawyer
  50. Four Stories about Paul Manafort from Andrew Weissmann’s Team M
  51. The Proud Boy Leaders’ Trial Takes Shape
  52. Must-See TV: House January 6 Committee Hearings Begin June 9 at 8:00 PM
  53. There Was No Crime Predicating the Durham Investigation
  54. In Upholding His Decision to Rule “Otherwise” Than His Colleagues on Obstruction, Judge Nichols Worries [about] “Corruptly”
  55. FBI’s Russian Hack-and-Leak Investigation as Disclosed by the Sussmann Trial

May 2022

  1. Jury Acquits Michael Sussmann; Sussmann Lawyer Calls Prosecution “Extraordinary Prosecutorial Overreach”
  2. “The Bell Can Never Be Unrung” … The Many Times Durham’s Prosecutors Flouted Judge Cooper’s Orders
  3. “and” / “or” : How Judge Cooper Rewrote the Michael Sussmann Indictment
  4. ‘This Time Is Going to Be Different’: Confronting the NRA
  5. The Staples Receipt and FBI’s Description of Michael Sussmann Sharing a Tip from Hillary
  6. There’s No Doubt the GOP Now Has Weapons of Mass Destruction [UPDATE-1]
  7. The Visibility of FBI’s Close Hold: John Durham Will Blame Michael Sussmann that FBI Told Alfa Bank They Were Investigating
  8. The FBI Believed Michael Sussmann Was Working for the DNC … Until Andrew DeFilippis Coached Them to Believe Otherwise
  9. Jim Baker’s “Doctored” Memory Forgot the Meeting He Had Immediately After His Michael Sussmann Meeting
  10. Technical Exhibits, Michael Sussmann Trial
  11. Apprehension and Dread with Bates Stamps: The Case of Jim Baker’s Missing Jencks Production
  12. John Durham Is Prosecuting Michael Sussmann for Sharing a Tip on Now-Sanctioned Alfa Bank
  13. That Clinton Tweet Could Lead To a Mistrial (or Reversal on Appeal)
  14. Jim Baker’s Tweet and the Recidivist Foreign Influence Cheater
  15. The Methodology of Andrew DeFilippis’ Elaborate Plot to Break Judge Cooper’s Rules
  16. Brittain Shaw’s Privileged Attempt to Misrepresent Eric Lichtblau’s Privilege
  17. emptywheel’s Continuing Obsession with Sticky Notes, Michael Sussmann Trial Edition
  18. John Durham’s Lies with Metadata
  19. With a Much-Anticipated Fusion GPS Witness, Andrew DeFilippis Bangs the Table
  20. Like the January 6 Investigation, the Mueller Investigation Was Boosted by Congressional Investigations
  21. The Founding Fantasy of Durham’s Prosecution of Michael Sussmann: Hillary’s Successful October Surprise
  22. EDNY Accuses Tom Barrack of “Harvesting Assets” by Crafting Policy to Help UAE in a Trump Presidency
  23. Comings and Goings on the Proud Boy Leaders Prosecution
  24. Scene-Setter for the Sussmann Trial, Part Two: The Witnesses
  25. BMS: Breast Milk Substitute? Big Messy Situation [UPDATE-1]
  26. The Sussman Trial
  27. Will KleptoCapture Catch John Durham, Along with the Russian Spies and Oligarchs?
  28. DOJ Claims a Key Witness against Tom Barrack Was Being Paid $15,000 a Month as Part of His Defense Team
  29. DOJ’s Reply Motion for Carl Nichols’ Reconsideration on 1512: Other Judge Other Judges Other Judges
  30. To Celebrate Its Third Birthday, the Durham Investigation Will Attempt to Breach Eric Lichtblau’s Reporter’s Privilege
  31. Scene-Setter for the Sussmann Trial, Part One: The Elements of the Offense
  32. Members of Congress Subpoena Members of Congress
  33. John Durham’s Pyrrhic Privilege Victory
  34. Thirty Months after Disputing Michael Horowitz, Durham’s Team Suggests They’ve Never Looked at the Evidence
  35. Wall Street Journal: Bigger Dupes of John Durham or Alexsej Gubarev?
  36. Senate Democrats’ Unanimous Fail
  37. Three Years into the Durham Investigation, a Jury Will Get to Hear about Trump’s Request that Russia Hack Hillary
  38. The Witness List for the Michael Sussmann Trial
  39. Amid Plea Discussions, Owen Shroyer Submits a Half-Hearted First Amendment Challenge
  40. Fun with Bates Stamps, Part One: John Durham Confuses His Two Defendants to Rile Up the Frothers
  41. March 6, 2017: Sussmann Claims Durham Brady Violation over Meeting Notes Flynn Falsely Claimed Were a Brady Violation
  42. A ‘Dicks Out’: On the Reported U.S. Intelligence Assist to Ukraine
  43. The March 6, 2017 Notes: Proof about Materiality
  44. Judge Cooper Rules for Durham on Key Issues, But Rules against His Conspiracy Theory
  45. Alito’s Horrifying Opinion
  46. Kentucky Derby Day
  47. Tick Tock: SDNY Tells Project Veritas, Again, To Wait Until James O’Keefe Is Indicted to Complain
  48. Bragging about US Intelligence Assistance Increases the Value and Solidarity of NATO Membership
  49. John Durham Wails about Michael Sussmann Adopting His Own Evidentiary Standards
  50. John Durham May Lose His Battle But Gain New Ammunition to Fight His War
  51. Todd Wilson: The Seditious Conspiracy Grows Branches
  52. WaPo Polls Whether Trump Should Be Charged Without Polling His Most Serious Suspected Crimes
  53. The Conspiracy to Use a Very Large Trump Sign as a Weapon To Obstruct the Vote Certification
  54. Chad Wolf Covered Up Russia’s 2020 Support for Trump
  55. Six Weeks: The Tactics of Sammy Alito’s Abortion
  56. Durham Prosecutor Brittain Shaw Gets Cute with Forfeited Claim
  57. Muskian Stupidity, Market Cupidity
  58. SCOTUS Is Changing The Definition Of American Citizenship
  59. Hillary Clinton’s Devious Plot to Get Oleg Deripaska to Install Paul Manafort as Trump’s Campaign Manager

April 2022

  1. Judge Cooper Probes Andrew DeFilippis’ Conspiracy Theory about “Worker Bees” in a “Cabal”
  2. The Tactics of the Louis Enrique Colon Cooperation Agreement
  3. Old Friends: Scooter Libby and CIPA
  4. John Durham’s Irregular Now-Sealed Timeline
  5. “Not Us at All:” In His Bid to Pierce Privilege, John Durham Makes Strong Case for Immunizing Rodney Joffe
  6. Three Things: Dial M for Michigan
  7. Confirmed: John Durham Has Withheld Discovery That DOJ Already Disproved His Claims of Political Malice
  8. Josh Marshall’s “Team on the Field:” Putting GOP on Defense Over Russia Requires Reversing Their Offense
  9. Bannon’s One-Time Co-Conspirators Admit They Cheated Trump Supporters in the Conspiracy Trump Pardoned Bannon For
  10. Three Things: Dead, Deader, Deadest
  11. The Posture of the Michael Sussmann Case
  12. Steve Bannon’s “Alleged” Non-Contemptuous Behavior
  13. Open Thread: Spring Has Sprung
  14. “professional embarassment” [sic]: Michael Sussmann Catches John Durham Accusing First and Investigating Later, Again
  15. John Durham Continues to Hide How Michael Sussmann Helped Kill the NYT Story
  16. Matryoshka Doll: The Aleksandr Babakov Indictment
  17. Tom Barrack Appears to Claim Trump Knew Barrack Was Catering US Foreign Policy to the Emirates
  18. Sedition Is the Foundation on Which the Trump Associate Investigation Builds
  19. Where Was Doug Jensen Radicalized? Russia’s 2016 Election Tampering
  20. Two Possible End Games in Ukraine
  21. The Valentine’s Day Massacre: How DOJ Lost Lucas Denney and Found Enrique Tarrio
  22. Bill Barr’s Legal Exposure May Lead Him to Lie about the Hunter Biden Laptop
  23. Back Was Stood, And By Was Stood: The Passive Voice Behind the Top Down Structure of the Charles Donohoe Statement of Offense
  24. Six Investigative Files from the Mueller Investigation Durham May Have Just Committed to Providing Michael Sussmann
  25. Open Thread: The Case of Fake Federal Personnel in the Navy Yard [UPDATE-1]
  26. John Durham Unveils His Post-Putin Puppet Strategy
  27. On EDNY’s Ongoing Investigation into Tom Barrack and His Not-Yet Indicted Co-Conspirators
  28. Tunnel Vision: Durham Treats Citizens’ Research into Real Paul Manafort Crimes Like a Criminal Conspiracy
  29. John Durham Is Likely to Supersede the Michael Sussmann Indictment
  30. The Guy Investigating the Claimed Politicized Hiring of a Special Counsel Insists that the Hiring of a Special Counsel Cannot Be Political
  31. John Durham Is Hiding Evidence of Altered Notes
  32. Michael Sussmann’s Lawyers Complain of “Wildly Untimely” Notices from John Durham [Updated, with Confirmation]
  33. Durham Prosecutor Andrew DeFilippis Confirmed to Rodney Joffe He May Continue Indefinitely
  34. The Evidence Needed for a Trump Prosecution
  35. Judge Reggie Walton Ruled Trump’s Back-Room Maneuverings Inadmissible for Dustin Thompson’s Alleged Obstruction
  36. This Is Not How You Wield Power: Toxic Punditry’s Lack of Self Awareness
  37. On Ginni Thomas’ Obstruction Exposure and Clarence’s Former Clerk, Carl Nichols
  38. On Enrique Tarrio’s Complex Password and Other Reasons the January 6 Investigation Can Now Move to Organizer-Inciters

March 2022

  1. All the Scheming at the Willard Only Matters because of the Bodies Occupying the Capitol and Threatening Pence
  2. The Right-Wing Plan To Rig SCOTUS
  3. Four Rudy Giuliani-Related Privilege Reviews: DOJ Likely Already Has a Version of Document 4708
  4. Lisa Monaco Vows, Again, to Hold All January 6 Perpetrators, at Any Level, Accountable
  5. Before John Durham’s Originator-1, There Was a Claimed BGP Hijack
  6. John Eastman’s Blank Documents
  7. Judge David Carter Confirms Trump Could Be Prosecuted for [A Lower Standard of] Obstruction
  8. The Alfa Bank Dark Net at Noon
  9. Derrick Bell’s Parable Of Afrolantica
  10. Whinger Verbs: To Investigate … To Prosecute … To Indict
  11. John Durham Keeps Chasing Possible Russian Disinformation
  12. The Collective Response to Russia’s Ukraine Invasion
  13. Clarence Thomas’ Non-Recusal Might Have Also Hidden the Missing Mark Meadows Texts
  14. Jeffrey Rosen Targeted Project Veritas’ Office Manager Long before Merrick Garland Targeted James O’Keefe
  15. Day Four — The Well-Qualified K. B. J.
  16. Trevor McFadden Rewards a White Lady for Endorsing a Revolution and Bragging about Violence against Cops
  17. And Three More Things: Day Three — The Well-Qualified K. B. J. [UPDATE-1]
  18. Paul Manafort Prevented from Flying to Dubai
  19. Three More Things: Day Two — The Well-Qualified K. B. J.
  20. John Durham’s Top Prosecutor, Andrew DeFilippis, Allegedly Miffed that DARPA Investigated Guccifer 2.0
  21. Three Things: The Well-Qualified K. B. J.
  22. Imagine if DOJ Used the Hunter Biden Inquiry to Get Testimony against Rudy Giuliani…
  23. “The Laptop” Is the Functional Equivalent of The Steele Dossier, 1: Rudy Is the Real Scandal
  24. Playing Jenga the Russian Trade Edition
  25. Five Years after WikiLeaks Exposed CIA Identities in Vault 7, UK Moves Closer to Assange Extradition
  26. A Brief Introduction To The History Of Early Humans
  27. DOJ Unseals 18-Month Old Indictment against Lev Parnas’ Financial Backer
  28. Wheat Exporter Russia Begs China for Food
  29. The Lesson Marina Ovsyannikova Offers to Chuck Todd and Lester Holt
  30. A White Board of the Sedition-Curious
  31. On the Benefits of Having a Career Diplomat Run CIA: “This Is One Information War that I Think Putin Is Losing”
  32. Another Report from an Unidentified Russian Operative
  33. Reports from an Unidentified Russian Operative
  34. Putin’s FSB: Failed Straightforwardness and Benevolence
  35. Now that DOJ Has Rudy Giuliani’s Phone Contents, Lev Parnas Prepares to Plead
  36. Steve Bannon’s Phantom Executive Privilege
  37. “Problem:” SDNY Charges Elena Branson as Unregistered Agent of Russia
  38. Questions about the Proud Boys Superseding Indictment
  39. Enrique Tarrio Gets His Chance to Fit In or Fuck Off
  40. Judge Carl Nichols Upends DOJ’s January 6 Prosecution Strategy
  41. It Is Not News that Bill Barr Lied to Protect Kleptocracy
  42. The Pointy End of Attrition’s Stick
  43. “The Whole Idea Was to Intimidate Congress:” Bill Barr Continues to Minimize Witness Tampering
  44. John Durham Says Election-Hack Victims Should Wait Until After the Election to Report Tips
  45. John Durham Drops Claim that Rodney Joffe “Mined” EOP Data for Derogatory Information on Trump from Boilerplate
  46. Security Saturday
  47. The Error that Betrays Insufficient Attention to the Obstruction Standard in the January 6 Eastman Filing
  48. The Timing of the Jack Hanick Prosecution
  49. A World War of Economic Attrition
  50. Three Things: Part 3 — Putin’s Particular Peculiarities
  51. “Thanks to your bullshit we’re now under siege”
  52. What Sedition Looks Like: Lots of Stewart Rhodes, but Key Uncharged Others
  53. Three Things: Part 2 — Russia’s Idiosyncratic Military Deployment [UPDATE-1]
  54. It’s Official: January 6 Was Sedition
  55. The Single-Legged Stool of the Horseshoe Left’s Apology for Putin
  56. John Durham and Newly-Sanctioned Alfa Bank’s Filings: “Almost like they were written by the same people”
  57. EDNY Notes that Tom Barrack Won’t Explain the Tactical Advantage of Waiting to Charge Him
  58. Three Things: Part 1 — Cognitive Dissonance and Ukraine

February 2022

  1. Questions for Bill Barr about His Cover-Ups Pertaining to Ukraine and Russia, Starting with: Who Withdrew the Red Notice for Yevgeniy Prigozhin?
  2. Three Things: The C C D of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
  3. How Not to Lose a World War between Authoritarianism and Democracy, Two
  4. Introduction and Index To Faces At The Bottom Of The Well
  5. How Not to Lose a World War between Authoritarianism and Democracy
  6. Rudy Giuliani Attacks Biden as SDNY Sifts Through His Comms for Ukraine Foreign Agent Investigation
  7. Ukraine Defends Democracy
  8. Putin’s Playmates Trump and Tucker Remind Trumpsters They’ve Been Trained to Love Putin
  9. The Half of Trump’s Conspiracy to Obstruct JustSecurity Left Out: Inciting an Insurrection
  10. After Almost Six Years, FEC Reveals Identity of the Guy Who Asked for Guccifer 2.0’s Help to Beat David Cicilline
  11. Judge Mehta Observes that Roger Stone’s Role on January 6 “May Prove Significant in Discovery”
  12. Judge Mehta’s Ruling that Donald Trump May Have Aided and Abetted Assaults on Cops Is More Important Than His Conspiracy Decision
  13. How Judge Amit Mehta Argued It Plausible that Trump Conspired with Two Militias
  14. Social Change For Human Purposes
  15. John Durham Accuses One of His Key Fact Witnesses — Sergei Millian’s Twitter Account — of “Misinterpret[ing] Facts”
  16. American Patriots Deleting Presidential Records: Ivanka’s Destruction of Evidence about an Ongoing Conspiracy
  17. Durham Says It’s Not His Fault His Former Boss Called for the Death of His Defendant
  18. Stewart Rhodes’ Detention Hearing Clarifies Investigative Challenges
  19. The Durham Investigation Has Lasted 50% Longer than the Mueller Investigation
  20. Six Data Points about the CIA Dragnet
  21. Indict First Interview Later: Durham’s Belated Efforts to Substantiate His Claims that Michael Sussmann Coordinated with Hillary
  22. Guest Post: We Need to Talk about DNS
  23. The Insights of Kandiaronk
  24. John Durham Chose to Meet with John Ratcliffe Rather than Witnesses Necessary to His Investigation
  25. Donald Trump Suggested Michael Sussmann Should Be Killed because Rodney Joffe “Spied” on Barack Obama
  26. “Fill the Silence:” On Obstruction, Listen to DOJ and Merrick Garland
  27. Josh Schulte Described the Damage Giving Russia Advance Access to the Vault 8 Files Would Have Caused
  28. Kash Patel Knew, and Did Nothing, about the Latest Durham-Related Frenzy
  29. John Durham, Ask Not for Whom the Statute of Limitation Tolls …
  30. Mueller Found Probable Cause, but Did Not Charge, Don Jr for Misdemeanor Hacking
  31. Attitudes Toward Freedom And Equality
  32. Donald Trump Wanted Jim Comey Prosecuted for Bringing Government Documents Home
  33. While Trump Was Secretly Loading Up Documents, Mike Ellis Was Hoarding an NSA Document at the White House
  34. On Unrealistic Expectations for Mueller Report Obstruction Charges
  35. The Five Versions of the Mueller Report
  36. Imagine if Woodward and Bernstein Buried the Ties between the Burglars and Nixon in Paragraph 26?
  37. The Eight Trump Associates Whom DOJ Is Investigating
  38. The Fed Prepares To Screw Working People Again
  39. Gaslighting of the Obstructive Kind
  40. Why to Delay a Mark Meadows Indictment: Bannon Is Using His Contempt Prosecution to Monitor the Ongoing January 6 Investigation
  41. The Origins Of European Thought On Inequality
  42. When Lawyers’ Lawyers Need Lawyers: The Import of Robert Costello’s Toll Records — for Bannon, for Rudy, and for Donald Trump
  43. The John Durham Investigation Turns 1,000 Days Old Today
  44. Steve Bannon’s Lawyer Made Himself a Witness and Now Wants To Be Just a Lawyer
  45. She’s “No Angel:” Josh Dawsey’s Nice Little Old Lady Suspected of Crimes to Steal an Election
  46. Trump’s Coup Attempts: A Tale of Five Pardon Dangles
  47. Symbolic Violence In Politics
  48. While TV Lawyers Wailed Impotently, DOJ Was Acquiring the Communications of Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and (Probably) Mark Meadows
  49. “I do share information[,] Rudy. You never read your emails, you never read your texts,” Sidney Powell purportedly said, while plotting a coup
  50. By Popular Demand: John Durham Claims His Memory Is More Skewed than James Baker’s
  51. Tom Barrack Suggests He Can’t Be Prosecuted Because It Didn’t Happen Early Enough To Be Obstructed

January 2022

  1. Three Things: Irish Fish Stew
  2. John Durham Suggests April Lorenzen Thinks He Bullied Her
  3. Breathing Room: What Pods Are You Casting?
  4. DOJ Finally Gets around to Sharing Discovery with Oath Keepers Mark Grods and Caleb Berry
  5. John Durham Flew to Italy to Get Joseph Mifsud’s Blackberries But Never Walked Across DOJ to Obtain James Baker’s Phones He Forgot He Knew Were There
  6. Brandon Straka Assures MAGAts That He Didn’t Share Evidence of Any Pre-January 6 Crimes
  7. The First Mike Flynn-Inspired Insurrectionist Sentenced to 44 Months in Prison
  8. The Paulie Plot in Ukraine
  9. Three Things: Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine
  10. John Durham Had No Idea Michael Sussmann Provided Another Anonymous Tip on Behalf of Rodney Joffe
  11. 44, 40, and 38
  12. Why It Would Be Counterproductive To Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate January 6
  13. “Let’s Go Brandon!” Straka’s Cow Manure
  14. Enough With Hobbes And Rousseau
  15. Special Master Barbara Jones Turns Over Rudy’s Chats
  16. Five Percent of Mueller Pre-Grand Jury Interviews Pertain to Still Ongoing Investigations
  17. Bennie Thompson to Ivanka: Come In from the Conspiracy
  18. Drive for Show, Putt for Dough, Cheat for Tax Deductions
  19. “HOLD. THE. LINE!!!” DOJ’s Late Research into Brandon Straka’s Grift
  20. Guest Post: The Tie that Binds the Conspiracies
  21. Pandora’s Presidential Archives, Couy Griffin Edition
  22. Reporting on the January 6 Investigation: emptywheel Brings Receipts
  23. The Disappearing Willard Hotel and the Accused Seditionists’ Other Interlocutors
  24. Stewie’s Assault Rifle: Comings and Goings in the Sedition Militia
  25. BREAKING (WaPo’s Stenography): Prosecutors Are Asking about Rudy Giuliani’s Ties to Militias
  26. Breathing Room: What Are You Streaming?
  27. January 6 Deconfliction: “This Is Part of a Much Bigger Conspiracy”
  28. One Man’s Flourish Is Another Man’s Seditious Conspiracy: DOJ’s Typo and the Brandon Straka Plea Deal
  29. The First Seditious Conspiracy Charges Drop
  30. The Structure of the January 6 Assault: “I will settle with seeing [normies] smash some pigs to dust”
  31. A Look at Michigan’s “Alternate” Electors [UPDATE-1]
  32. Introduction And Index To New Series On The Dawn Of Everything
  33. Three Things: A Call to Action for Voting Rights [UPDATE-2]
  34. The Green Bay Sweep Is Inextricably Tied to the Violent Mob
  35. After a Six Hour Hearing on Lawsuits against Trump, the Only Clear Thing is Don Jr Is in the Clear
  36. Discovery Delays at the East Door: What Key January 6 Plea Negotiations Look Like
  37. DOJ Is Treating January 6 as an Act of Terrorism, But Not All January 6 Defendants Are Terrorists
  38. The Six Trump Associates Whom DOJ Is Investigating
  39. “I Want to Thank My Two Closeted GOP Colleagues”
  40. January 6 Is Unknowable
  41. Merrick Garland Points Out that Misdemeanors Are Easy
  42. “I’m Just There to Open the Envelopes:” The Select Committee and DOJ Investigations Converge at Mike Pence
  43. James Taylor, King Herod, and January 6th
  44. The Johnsons — Daryl and Daniel — Plead Up to Civil Disorder
  45. The Hard Right Gains Power In Enid Oklahoma
  46. Trump Breached His Own Privilege by Blabbing to Sean Hannity
  47. DOJ’s Approximate January 6 Conspiracies
  48. Vladislav Klyushin Traveled Freely in Europe, Until He Didn’t Travel in Europe Freely
  49. Three Things: Bracing for Omicron’s Overrun
  50. Easy Cases: Why Austin Sarat’s Argument That Trump Should Not Be Prosecuted Is Wrong
  51. Letting Go of 2021

2021 509

December 2021

  1. Clue: It Was Sidney Powell with the Grifting, in Advance of the Pardon, on Lin Wood’s Plantation
  2. Why That Peter Navarro Interview Isn’t Enough To Charge Him with Sedition
  3. Trevor McFadden Uses Stormtroopers to Justify His Promise to Let Jan6ers Off Easy
  4. Judge Tim Kelly Releases Opinion on Obstruction Affecting as Many as Two Dozen Proud Boys
  5. The Trump to Willard War Room to Militia Connection
  6. The Big Election Lie Built on the Last Big Election Lie
  7. A Christmas Limerick from Limerick
  8. Happy Holidays From The Emptywheel Blog: A Year To Remember, A Year To Forget And An Open Forum For Cooking, Trash And Other Talk
  9. Chekhov’s Riot Shield: How Proud Boy Matthew Greene’s Cooperation Helps Prove the Conspiracy
  10. Three Crimes Included in Proud Boy Matthew Greene’s Intent Statement
  11. Broken Windows Policing and January 6 Plea Deals
  12. Mike Flynn Forgets He Was Shit-Canned by Presidents of Both Parties
  13. Behind the Arrest of Putin’s Pen-Tester, Vladislav Klyushin
  14. Three Things: Omigod Omicron
  15. The Intransitive Corruption of the Oath Keepers
  16. Angry Mom: Thanks, Joe “2022 Will Be an Electoral Bloodbath” Manchin [UPDATE-2]
  17. Hot and Cold Running John Durham Conspiracy Conspiracies
  18. How SDNY Came to Treat James O’Keefe Better than Former SDNY US Attorney Rudy Giuliani
  19. What Have We Been Reading?
  20. Two Months after Insinuating Ali Alexander Should Be Held Responsible for January 6, Jonathan Moseley Claims To Be His Lawyer
  21. This Is My O Face: Welcome, Omicron [UPDATE-1]
  22. In Their Bid for Special Master, Project Veritas Provided Evidence of Possible Extortion
  23. The Pied Piper of Insurrection, and Other Challenges in Charging the January 6 Organizer-Inciters
  24. Finally, Everyone Is Talking about Trump’s Obstruction on January 6
  25. The Video Authentication Challenge: Aaron Mostofsky
  26. Have Ethan Nordean’s Hopes Been Semi-Colon’ed by Dabney Friedrich’s [Chapter and] Verse?
  27. Mark Meadows Promised the Kind of National Guard Protection that Proud Boy Charles Donohoe Seemed to Expect
  28. The Virgin Birth of Sidney Powell’s Fraud Fund
  29. Dabney Friedrich Rejects Challenge to January 6 Obstruction Application
  30. Joshua James’ Frequent January 6 Updates on His Jilted VIPer
  31. Liar’s Poker: The Complexity of Julian Assange’s Extradition
  32. DOJ’s Ex Parte Classified Plans for Joshua Schulte — and Maybe, Julian Assange
  33. Bennie Thompson Will Need to Bill FBI for the Affidavits He’s Writing for Them
  34. DOJ Already Debunked the Lies Ali Alexander Is about to Tell Congress
  35. A Taxonomy of the [Visible] January 6 “Crime Scene” Investigation
  36. Adventures in Cut-and-Paste: John Durham says, “no specific client” is the same as, “not doing this for any client”
  37. Citing “Considerable Detail” in Affidavits, Judge Denies Bid to Unseal Project Veritas Warrants
  38. John Durham Wants Permission to Delay Providing Evidence of How Weak His Michael Sussmann Case Is
  39. How One CCTV Camera Was Rendered Ineffective Over Two Hours on January 6
  40. Rudy’s Phones Defy Guarantees We’d Know of an Investigation into Trump
  41. Release the Kraken!! Two Degrees of Donald Trump at the East Doors
  42. The Executive Privilege Puzzle: The Co-Equal Branch of Government
  43. Ten Things TV Lawyers Can Do Rather than Whinging about Merrick Garland
  44. 237 Days: Cooperation in Criminal Investigations Takes a Long Time
  45. How Google’s GeoFence Captured “Lions Not Sheep” Lisa Homer

November 2021

  1. Three Things: A Three-Ring Circus
  2. The Publisher of the Steele Dossier, Ben Smith, Reports that the Hunter Biden Laptop Was Just a Political Dirty Trick
  3. Hillary’s Candidate Briefing Was More Contentious than Mike Flynn’s
  4. Where to Look (or Not) for Signs of Life in Rule of Law
  5. Sting Ray: Project Veritas’ Schrodinger’s Proxy
  6. CTDT: Critical Turkey Day Theory
  7. Parallel Tracks: Project Veritas Served on Their Subpoena Stance
  8. Burners, Burning: The Heat’s Turned up on Mark Meadows [UPDATE-1]
  9. The Disinformation that Got Told: Michael Cohen Was, in Fact, Hiding Secret Communications with the Kremlin
  10. False Identifications and Two Delayed Arrests: Jeremy Baouche and Mark Mazza
  11. Mark, Mark, Mark!: No Wonder Meadows Balked at House Subpoena
  12. Pressure Drop Trash Talk
  13. On CIPA and Sequestration: Durham’s Discovery Deadends
  14. The Rittenhouse Verdict
  15. In Story Purporting to “Reckon” with Steele’s Baseless Insinuations, CNN Spreads Durham’s Unsubstantiated Insinuations
  16. A Somewhat Charitable View Of Vaccine Refusers
  17. Three Things: Fire, Fire, Fired [UPDATE-1]
  18. Aleksej Gubarev Drops Lawsuit after DOJ Confirms Steele Dossier Report Naming Gubarev’s Company Came from His Employee
  19. Kevin Fairlamb and Jacob Chansley Sentences Affirm Judicial Legitimacy
  20. John Durham’s Cut-and-Paste Failures — and Other Indices of Unreliability
  21. John Durham: Destroying the Purported Victims to Save Them
  22. Three Things: Ugly Goes Clean to the Bone [UPDATE-1]
  23. Three Things: No, No, and Hell to the NO, NYT
  24. Source 6A: John Durham’s Twitter Charges
  25. Daisy-Chain: The FBI Appears to Have Asked Danchenko Whether Dolan Was a Source for Steele, Not Danchenko
  26. Minority Report: Botheration Benefits Bannon
  27. The Office of Special Counsel Report on Trumpsters’ Crimes: Toothless, But Useful?
  28. Three Things: North by East by Northeast on January 6
  29. Gina Bisignano: If a Plea Deal Falls on the Docket and No One Hears It …
  30. “Yes and No:” John Durham Confuses Networking with Intelligence Collection
  31. Not-So-Casual Water: Insurance Fraud Alleged at Trump-Westchester
  32. John Durham May Have Made Igor Danchenko “Aggrieved” Under FISA
  33. The Igor Danchenko Indictment: Structure
  34. Bullshit Brigade: Now with More NYT Bullshit [Action Item Included]
  35. This Is the Morning After: Virginia Isn’t the Whole Story
  36. January 6 Defendants Succeed in Proving They Were Treated Better than Other DC Detainees
  37. Bullshit Brigade: State and Local Election Day Edition [UPDATE-1]
  38. Baloney and Blackjack! A John Pierce Client Complains of Paying Too Much for What Had Been Free
  39. Donald Trump Would Withhold Evidence about Whether Enrique Tarrio Really Did Visit the White House Last December

October 2021

  1. 3 Things: Memory, Memory, the 6th of January
  2. Steve Bannon Was Made to Testify, Truthfully, Once
  3. Bullshit Brigade – Book Burner Edition
  4. January 6 Defendant Kevin Creek Ends Up with a Single Assault Charge
  5. After Describing DOJ’s January 6 Language as “Schizophrenic,” Judge Beryl Howell Imposes a Sound Baseline Sentence
  6. Merrick Garland Assures Sheldon Whitehouse the January 6 Investigators Are Using All Investigative Techniques, Including Following the Money
  7. The Julian Assange Question: True Claims about Prison Conditions or Lies in Service of Martyrdom?
  8. What Lies Beneath the Turf
  9. DOJ Claims Ryan Samsel Wants to Move Back to Where He Was Brutally Assaulted
  10. Paul Nakasone’s Concerns about Mike Ellis Hiring Vindicated
  11. Why I’m Angry At David Brooks
  12. Merrick Garland’s Dodges on Investigating Former Presidents
  13. Merrick Garland Explains that the January 6 Investigation Isn’t Taking All that Long
  14. John Durham Admits He Overstated Evidence in His Michael Sussmann Materiality Statement
  15. Ryan Grim’s “Gibberish” about Co-Conspirator Statements
  16. “Civil War Started:” Zach Rehl’s Blow-by-Blow of the Riot
  17. Schrödinger’s Capitol: Three Things Owen Shroyer Neglects to Mention
  18. Andrew McCabe Got His Pension and His Cufflinks — But Is that Adequate Recourse for the Country?
  19. Jenny Cudd’s Pre- and Post-Riot Endorsement of a Revolution
  20. Marina Medvin’s Client Signs a Plea with the Potential of a Terrorism Enhancement
  21. Royce Lamberth Refers DC Jail to DOJ for Civil Rights Investigation
  22. Brandon Fellows Demands Positive Reinforcement as an Accused Criminal, Before Confessing to More Crimes
  23. What is the appropriate sanction for a “pawn” who participated in a coup attempt?
  24. DOJ Was Still Working to Access Joshua Schulte’s Phone in September 2019
  25. FBI Searches the Home of the Guy Who Said, “I want to see thousands of normies burn that city to ash” on January 6
  26. Rocky Racoon, NFL, NCAA and F1 Trash Talk
  27. David Brooks Says Smart People Caused Trumpism
  28. Puzzling Developments in the January 6 Investigation
  29. Michael Sussmann Attempts to Bill [of Particulars] Durham for His Sloppy Indictment Language
  30. The Two New Material Errors Are the News from the IG Report on Woods File Errors
  31. Live Thread: U.S. Senate Commerce Hearing with Facebook Whistleblower [UPDATE-5]
  32. David Judd Claims He’s Not Being Treated as Well as the Teenager Who Got Murdered
  33. Peril: What’s Epilogue to Prologue?
  34. There Is Going To Be A Game Tonight
  35. In Indictment Accusing Michael Sussmann of Hiding Details about Researchers, John Durham Hid Details about Researchers
  36. WikiLeaks’ Intent in Publishing (and Not Publishing) CIA’s Hacking Tools Was To Wreck the Agency

September 2021

  1. Alex Jones Used the Promise of a Permit and a Stage to Lure Hundreds to the East Steps
  2. Zach Rehl’s Subpoena for Port-a-John Details from the Non-Existent One Nation Under God
  3. The Yahoo Story about All the Things CIA Wasn’t Allowed to Do Against WikiLeaks
  4. The FBI’s Proud Boy Informant Showed Up Late
  5. Lev Parnas’ Failed Attempt to Flip
  6. Like Joe Biggs, the Hughes Brothers Also Conducted a Pincer from the East
  7. John Durham Is the Jim Jordan of Ken Starrs
  8. SDNY Showed Probable Cause Rudy Giuliani Was Criming While He Represented Trump in the Russian Investigation
  9. TL;DNR = Too Late; Do Not Resuscitate
  10. Understanding Suicidal Americans
  11. Networks of Insurrection: “Trump is literally calling people to DC in a show of force”
  12. DOJ Put Someone Who Enabled Sidney Powell’s Lies — Jocelyn Ballantine — in Charge of Prosecuting the Proud Boys
  13. GOP Denounces Barry Goldwater, John Tower, and Richard Nixon?
  14. Ethan Nordean Complains that He’s Not Being Treated as Badly as a Muslim Accused-Terrorist Mastermind
  15. Felipe Marquez’ Plugged-In Misdemeanor Guilty Plea
  16. Monza, US Open, NFL And Other Sports Trash Talk
  17. The Eight Month Investigation into the January 6 Investigation Didn’t End in March
  18. How Rick Gates Used Maggie Haberman and Ken Vogel
  19. DOJ Gets Closer to Arguing Terrorizing Congress Amounts to Obstruction
  20. Rick Gates’ Interviews
  21. How Jacob Chansley Proved Patrick LeDuc Right
  22. The Network Effect: The 3%ers Incitement, Terrorist Enhancements, and California’s Anti-Maskers
  23. “This is not reverse RICO!” Shane Jenkins Gives Away John Pierce’s Game
  24. Brandon Fellows Gets a CIPA Notice
  25. DOJ Treated Jerome Corsi as News Media but Not Roger Stone or Randy Credico (or Julian Assange)
  26. The End Of Roe v. Wade
  27. At Lunchtime on March 15, 2017, Joshua Schulte Went Home and Got His Passport[s]

August 2021

  1. David Mish’s Silence on Ashli Babbitt’s Last Words
  2. The Dog Ate My Conflict — Car Accident — Ventilator — Disconnected Phones: Miscellany from the January 6 Investigation
  3. How the FBI Missed Alleged January 6 Leader Joe Biggs
  4. Mirriam Seddiq, Dulles Justice and New Effort For Afghan Evacuees
  5. Zia Faruqui Doesn’t Want to be DOJ’s Fall-Guy for Media Policy Secrecy
  6. John Pierce Tries to Hire His 18th January 6 Defendant while on a Ventilator with COVID-19
  7. “its really difficult to determine whats real and what’s fake;” At Least Three Oath Keepers Believed Trump Invoked the Insurrection Act on January 10
  8. Charlie Watts
  9. Rudy’s Other Grifter Prepares to Plead Guilty
  10. Stop the Steal: Hints of the January 5 Rallies in the January 6 Riot Investigation
  11. The *How* of Owen Shroyer’s Arrest
  12. Reuters Doesn’t Mention Terrorism When Claiming DOJ Won’t Charge Serious Offenses in the January 6 Investigation
  13. Journalists Getting Suckered by Ass-Covering Sources on Afghanistan
  14. How a Trump Prosecution for January 6 Would Work
  15. Joseph Hackett’s Detention Argument: Guns, Operational Security, and Involvement in Kelly Meggs’ Plans for Nancy Pelosi
  16. There May Well Have Been an Intelligence Failure in Afghanistan
  17. John Durham Won’t Charge Any of Trump’s Favorite Villains
  18. What If the US Had Fought the Saudis Instead of the Taliban?
  19. Don’t Ignore What Trevor McFadden Has to Say about January 6
  20. Terrorists in the Tunnel: The Omnibus Indictment for Officer Daniel Hodge’s Assault
  21. Lev Parnas Finally Gets His Rudy Documents — But Not the Way He Wanted
  22. A Tale of Three Capitol Visitor Center Arrests: Why January 6 Is Different from Portland
  23. The Rebellion Rorschach: The Many Faces of the January 6 Investigation
  24. Did Paul Gosar Take Actions on Behalf of Donald Trump that Contributed to Ashli Babbitt’s Death?
  25. Why Did DOJ Delay Seven Months before Letting Jeffrey Rosen Testify?
  26. 19 Minutes: The Tuberville Call and DOJ’s Use of Obstruction in January 6 Prosecutions
  27. Scott Fairlamb Pled Guilty to Obstruction and Assault; Does That Amount to Terrorism?
  28. The Danger Of Stupidity
  29. The Still Active Konstantin Kilimnik Investigation
  30. “Leave the Rest to Me and the R Congressmen:” Trump’s Big Lie and the Actual Harm of January 6 Obstruction
  31. This Is Your D*ck on COVID-19: Reaching Stubbornly Unvaxxed Men
  32. Brady Knowlton’s Lawyer Suggests There Were No Victims on January 6
  33. Three Tea Leaves in Judge Tim Kelly’s Matthew Greene Detention Decision
  34. January 6: The Trespasser Testimonials

July 2021

  1. This Is Bullshit: Are You Seriously Evicting Voters, Democrats? [UPDATE-1]
  2. The Government Screws Up Attempt to Distinguish between January 6 Insurrection and Anti-Kavanaugh Protests
  3. This Is Bullshit: Silver Takes the Gold for COVID Guff [UPDATE-1]
  4. What Eliel Rosa Saw at the Precise Moment Ethan Nordean Was Not Seeing Officers Open the Upper West Terrace Door
  5. DOJ Unimpressed by Mo Brooks’ Kickass Conspiracy Defense
  6. The Cellebrite Wars: Moxie’s Stunt and Freddie’s Phone
  7. Like All His Co-Conspirators, Donald Trump Would Be Charged for Obstruction, Not Incitement
  8. Dinesh D’Souza and the GoPro: The Import of the Disorganized Militia Conspiracy Case at the Core of January 6
  9. The Available Evidence Says Merrick Garland *Is* Prosecuting Controversial Cases from Trump Years
  10. The Significance of Tom Barrack’s Obstruction and False Statements Charges
  11. Paul Manafort Knew Tom Barrack Was Working with “Our Friends”
  12. “Darkened Plazas with Throngs of People:” The Government Debunks the Portland – January 6 Comparisons
  13. Paul Manafort Shared the Trump Energy Speech with Tom Barrack
  14. Three Things: Mary Had a Little Lambda [UPDATE-1]
  15. The “Big Boss” Directing Tom Barrack’s Actions
  16. On the Missing Inspector General Report[s] about Wilbur Ross’ Lies
  17. Space Cowboys
  18. Invoking the Great Task of Ensuring “the Government of the People Shall Not Perish from the Earth,” Judge Moss Sentences Paul Hodgkins to Eight Months Sentence
  19. On the Upcoming Sentencing for the First January 6 Felony Defendant, Paul Hodgkins
  20. Minority Report: Putin’s Programma Destabilizatsii Began Much Earlier
  21. The Guardian “Scoop” Would Shift the Timeline and Bureaucracy of the Known 2016 Russian Operation
  22. Judge Paul Oetken Eliminates Lev Parnas’ Last Attempt to Weaponize the Former President’s Former Lawyer in His Defense
  23. The Viral Twitter Thread in Which Darrell Cooper Confesses Republicans Were Pawns of Russian Disinformation
  24. The Odd Projection by the Steele Dossier’s Claimed Alfa Bank Source
  25. Introduction To New Series, Index And Bibliography
  26. Meet Johnny Pollock: The Anti-Social [Media] Cell Leader of January 6 Lakeland Insurrectionists
  27. Blind Spots in the Ashli Babbitt Panopticon
  28. Carlson to McCarthy to Nunes: Obstruction or Worse?
  29. Proud Boy UCC-1’s Work Ethic Saved Him from a Felony Charge
  30. Tucker Carlson Burns FBI or NSA Intercepts Regarding His 30-Month Pursuit of Face-Time with Vladimir Putin
  31. “Stand Back and Stand By:” John Pierce’s Plan for a Public Authority or — More Likely — a MyPillow Defense
  32. “One if By Land, Two if By Sea:” What We Know of the Oath Keepers’ January 6 Quick Reaction Force
  33. The Oath Keepers Dilemma: The Government Has Threatened Yet Another Indictment
  34. Why Would Allen Weisselberg Tolerate Having to Cheat on His Taxes Rather than Getting a Raise?
  35. Drive for Show, Putt for Dough: Trump’s Accountant’s Putting Method Revealed [UPDATE-3]
  36. The Grand Jury Secrets Hiding the Proud Boys’ East Door Activities
  37. Darrell Youngers, Christopher Warnagiris, and Jason Dolan: Marines at the East Door

June 2021

  1. An Unknown Unknown Made Known Known
  2. Person Fifteen (AKA Mark Grods), Another Roger Stone Security Staffer, Flips
  3. What Happens in DC Stays in Vegas
  4. The Republican PCLOB Cover-Up of NSA’s XKEYSCORE Use Is More Troubling than Tucker Carlson’s Claims To Be Surveilled
  5. Charlie Savage Plays with His Magic Time Machine To Avoid Doing Journalism
  6. More on Joshua Schulte’s Attempted Hack of the Justice System
  7. WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden Champion Sociopathic Liars and Sloppy Thinking
  8. The Suns
  9. Guccifer 20uble Entendre
  10. The Miami Collapse [Updated!]
  11. Final Thoughts On The Public And Its Problems
  12. iCloud: How to Arrest a Pastor without Investigating Him Directly
  13. The Hundred-Plus January 6 Defendants Accused of Assault
  14. Graydon Young: Trading a Potential Terrorism Enhancement for Testimony against His Sister
  15. The January 6 Plea Deals: Cooperation, Felony, and Misdemeanor Plea Deals
  16. Mutually Assured Blackmail: Roger Stone Tries to Undercut Steve Bannon’s Power
  17. Thomas Webster’s Opening Electronic Communication: A Glimpse at How FBI Sees This Terror Attack, Not a Debunking of Christopher Wray
  18. PCLOB: The Essential Oversight Link Designed to Be Inadequate
  19. On Helmets And Vaccinations
  20. Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald Are Outraged that Bill Barr Set Up Antifa!!!! [Just Kidding]
  21. The Crimes of Violence Ashli Babbitt’s Mob Allegedly Committed
  22. The Model MAGA Tourist, Anna Morgan-Lloyd, and Evidence Collection
  23. The Public’s Problems In Finding Itself
  24. Charlie Savage’s Obfuscations in the Service of Claiming Julian Assange Is a Journalist
  25. Joshua Schulte Attempts to Hack the Court System
  26. The Delayed Trespassing Charges against Savanah McDonald and Nolan Kidd
  27. A New Emphasis on Threats of Violence in the Latest January 6 Conspiracy Indictment
  28. How Don McGahn Distracted the NYTimes from the Subpoenas Known To Be Problematic
  29. Ending American Erasure
  30. “Target:” A Vocabulary Lesson for Adam Schiff
  31. Carter Page Believed James Wolfe Was Ellen Nakashima’s Source Disclosing His FISA Application Less than a Month After the Story
  32. Wegman and NYT on Judge Katzmann
  33. Some Perspective on the Politicized Leak Investigation Targeting Adam Schiff
  34. The Hybrid Hatchet Conspiracy: A Premeditated Plan to Surround the Capitol on January 6
  35. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The Metadata of Insurrection
  36. Three Things: Waves of Stupidity
  37. Tea Leaves on the Garland-Monaco DOJ and the Stay in Andrew McCabe’s Lawsuit
  38. The Gateway Pundit’s East Capitol Door Oath Keeper Conspiracy
  39. The Hole in the Senate January 6 Report Created by DOJ’s Non-Cooperation
  40. Welcome to Lisa Monaco’s DOJ, E Jean Carroll Lawsuit Edition
  41. Merrick Garland Agreed He Would Go after January 6 Kingpins, if Evidence Merits
  42. On January 6, Look to the Continuances
  43. Reading Through The Eyes Of Others
  44. Bill Barr Is Not Dick Cheney
  45. Barbara Jones’ Special Mastery of Releasing Donald Trump’s Lawyers’ Crime-Fraud Excepted Communications
  46. Accused Terrorist* Leader Ethan Nordean Complains He Got Charged with Trespassing
  47. At the Barricades: Newly Discovered Video Depicting Timothy Hale-Cusanelli
  48. The [Thus Far] Missing Seth DuCharme Emails Pertaining to Rudy Giuliani’s Russian Disinformation
  49. Paul Hodgkins Pleads Guilty to Obstruction
  50. Government Moves to Dismiss Its First January 6 Case: Christopher Kelly
  51. OpSec Confusion on the Oath Keeper Conspiracy

May 2021

  1. Crystalizing Conspiracies: Fourth Superseding, James Breheny, Puma’s GoPro, [Redacted], and the Willard Hotel
  2. Latex Gloves Hiding Evidence of Conspiracies: On the Unknown Adequacy of the January 6 Investigation
  3. Rudy Giuliani’s Alleged “Cooperation” Is a Threat to Lay out How Bill Barr and Jeffrey Rosen Protected Russian Disinformation
  4. Let The Girls Rock And Roll At Indy
  5. The Rudy Giuliani Warrants Likely Go Up To the Andrii Derkach Meeting
  6. Rudy Giuliani’s Support Role in the Mueller Report
  7. Lev Parnas Failed to Delete His iCloud Content Just before DOJ Got a Secret Warrant for Rudy Giuliani’s iCloud Content
  8. Three Things: Pouring Cement Down the Wells
  9. Republicans Filibuster Keeping the Capitol Safe
  10. Jeffrey Rosen Separated the Investigation that Could Turn Rudy Into a Russian Agent from the Rudy Investigation
  11. Lev Parnas’ Gamble: The Three Nested Investigations
  12. In [Legal] Defense of the Nazi
  13. The Manafort Unsealing and Konstantin Kilimnik
  14. Bill Barr Issued Prosecution Declinations for Three Crimes in Progress
  15. RICO Comes to the January 6 Investigation — But Not the Way You Think
  16. Amy Berman Jackson Accuses Bill Barr of a Preemptive Strike on the Mueller Report
  17. “Purge:” Gordon Sondland Probably Just Won Himself Another Subpoena
  18. Lev Parnas Wants in on the Rudy Giuliani Warrant Bonanza
  19. Frankenstein’s OLC: DOJ Says DOJ Can’t Do What DOJ Did in the Barr Memo
  20. On the Barr Memo: Julie Straus Harris Says Julie Straus Harris’ Unexplained “Flourish” Wasn’t a Lie
  21. Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and the Ongoing Investigation into Cambridge Analytica
  22. Steve Bannon’s Mueller and Mueller Aftermath Interviews, with Backup
  23. “Fool’s Gold:” The Polls Shared with Konstantin Kilimnik Integrated Tony Fabrizio’s Polling with Cambridge Analytica’s
  24. You Cannot Discuss Disinformation and the Steele Dossier without Discussing Oleg Deripaska
  25. The Shocking Blue Streets of Monaco
  26. DOJ Reaches a Non-Prosecution Agreement with the MCC Guards Bill Barr Used as Scapegoats for Jeffrey Epstein’s Death
  27. Insurance File: Glenn Greenwald’s Anger Is of More Use to Vladimir Putin than Edward Snowden’s Freedom
  28. Vicky and Rudy: The Subjects of Delay
  29. Discuss: U.S. Mobile Data Compared to Rest of Globe
  30. Victoria Toensing’s Singular Multiple Devices
  31. DOJ Moves to Label John Sullivan a Professional Provocateur
  32. Track This Post: U.S. Postmaster DeJoy Must Be Fired and Hajjar Hired
  33. Rudy’s Lawyers Destroy His Reputation in an Attempt to Save It
  34. Y’all Qaeda Northwest: Ethan Nordean Provides Yet More Proof of the Proud Boys’ Sophistication and Resilience
  35. No One Wants to Work [For You] Anymore: The End of Oligopsony
  36. January 6: A Change of Pace
  37. DOJ’s Curious Militia Math
  38. Peter Debbins, Shrink-Wrapped Spy
  39. The Mike Flynn Interviews, with Backup
  40. When Fox News Generals Boasted of Brokering Russian Meetings with Mike Flynn
  41. Fertile Ground: Lack of Broadband and Disinformation Proliferation
  42. “Oversight:” Mike Flynn Lied to Protect Barbara Ledeen, Who Then Fed Disinformation to Sara Carter
  43. The Two Communities And The Future Of Democracy
  44. The Day After the Second COVID Mother’s Day
  45. DOJ’s Failures to Follow Media Guidelines on the WaPo Seizure
  46. Peter Debbins Claims He Stopped Spying for Russia in 2011
  47. Did John Durham Seize Journalists’ Call Records?
  48. Radicalized by Trump: A Tale of Two Assault Defendants
  49. Four Ways Billy Barr Obstructed the Investigation into Rudy Giuliani
  50. January 6: Focus on Jeff Merkley’s Office and Missing Laptop
  51. In Request for Special Master, the Lev Parnas Prosecutors Hint at Prior Filter Team Searches on Rudy
  52. Will Amy Berman Jackson Finally Break the Spell of OLC Feeding Bullshit FOIA Claims to DC District Judges?
  53. Bad Habits Of Thinking Make It Hard To Form Community
  54. DOJ Got All the Proud Boy Telegram Texts from Ethan Nordean’s Phone
  55. January 6: On the Track of the Missing Laptops
  56. When No Means Yes: The Flynn and McFarland Response to Information to Paul Manafort
  57. Seth Rich Conspiracists Liberate Records Showing DOJ Believes They’re Conspiracists
  58. Will the GOP Demand Ron Johnson Be Stripped of Committee Assignments for Ignoring a Defensive Briefing?
  59. The Crossroads of Insurrection: The Senate Chamber Insurrection Defendants

April 2021

  1. Ethan Nordean’s Funny Idea of Exculpatory
  2. The George Nader Problem: NSA Removes the Child Exploitation Content from Its Servers
  3. The NFL Draft 2021 and Portuguese GP
  4. The Rickety 702 System: Why It Continues to Fail
  5. Where Were They Radicalized? Two Mike Flynn Supporters Guilty of Threatening Assassination
  6. Rudy Giuliani’s Going To Go Through Some Things
  7. FISC Suspects John Ratcliffe of Relaxing Rules for Unmasking of FISA Material
  8. India’s COVID Surge: The Curious Facets of U.S. Response
  9. Is a Disorganized Militia January 6 Conspiracy in the Offing?
  10. Soft-Handed Academic Dudes and Minimum Wage Fast Food: What Could Go Wrong?
  11. Former Presiding FISA Judge John Bates’ Curious Treatment of White Person Terrorism
  12. In Adding Matthew Greene to a Conspiracy with Dominic Pezzola, DOJ Formally Alleges the Proud Boys Committed a Crime of Terrorism
  13. Goodbye, American Dream: The Unaffordability of American Life
  14. Derek Chauvin Verdict
  15. Last Month, Baked Alaska Got to Ditch His Ankle Bracelet
  16. Democratic Values In Practice
  17. Why DOJ Isn’t Making Plea Deals: The Delayed Obstruction and Even More Delayed Assault Charge against Patrick Montgomery
  18. Updated List of January 6 Assault Defendants
  19. Two One-Time Devin Nunes Flunkies Under Investigation for Leaks
  20. The US Government Accuses Roger Stone of Rat-Fucking the IRS
  21. Jon Schaffer’s Plea Deal Brands Premeditated Use of Force with the Oath Keeper Brand
  22. Tables Flipped: With Cooperation Agreement, Oath Keeper Jon Schaffer Will Get Protection from US Marshals
  23. Avril Haines Committed to Reviewing Past Redactions of Intelligence on Russia’s Support for Trump
  24. Treasury States as Fact that Konstantin Kilimnik Shared Polling Data with Russian Intelligence
  25. Christopher Quaglin: Illuminating the Gaps in the January 6 Panopticon
  26. 3 Things: Myths of Overnight Success, Herd Immunity, and COVID-19 Vaccine
  27. Three April 9 Arrests: Arresting Your Way to Evidence Collection
  28. The Social Critique Of The Port Huron Statement
  29. Daniel Hale, Citizenfive
  30. Anatomy of a Potential January 6 Cooperation Agreement
  31. How Did the Proud Boys Have Better Lines of Communication about National Guard Reinforcements than the National Guard Did?
  32. Politico Claims It Embarrasses Joe Biden that Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Merits Little or No Jail Time
  33. DOJ Arresting Their Way to Clarity on Joe Biggs’ Two Breaches of the Capitol
  34. The Grand Theft Golf Cart Conspiracy: DOJ Backed Off Charges against Roberto Minuta
  35. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Irishman

March 2021

  1. The F1 Circus Begins Again, and RIP To A Friend
  2. The Port Huron Statement
  3. Zip Tie Guy Eric Munchel Gets a Second Chance at Release
  4. Days after an Oath Keeper Event with Roger Stone, Kelly Meggs Described Having “Organized an Alliance” with the Proud Boys
  5. Were Proud Boys Using Livestream for Command and Control … and Other Operational Questions
  6. There Were 60 Proud Boy “Boots on the Ground” on January 6; Around 23 Have Been Arrested
  7. The Three Key Details the Proud Boy Unindicted Co-Conspirator Likely Revealed to Prosecutors
  8. The State of the Five Now-Intersecting January 6 Militia Conspiracies
  9. How to Arrest Someone (Almost) Entirely Off Social Media
  10. 86 Minutes: Two Arrests Thwarted and Three Cops Disabled by “Bear Shit”
  11. 675 Days In, the Durham Investigation Has Lasted Longer than the Mueller Investigation
  12. News from the Election Front: Russia Attacked Joe Biden Through “Prominent US Individuals, Some of Whom Were Close to Former President Trump”
  13. The FBI Was Still Collecting Evidence Yesterday that Might Explain Brian Sicknick’s Death
  14. Two Arrested in Officer Sicknick Assault
  15. Finding The Public In A Complex Society
  16. Funeral For A Friend And Get Your Shot
  17. “I Started the Fire:” DOJ Reveals Another Missed Advance Warning about January 6
  18. Thomas Caldwell’s “Storming the Castle” Ploy Succeeds
  19. An Inventory of the January 6 Investigation on Merrick Garland’s First Day
  20. GoToInsurrection and Other Astounding Oath Keeper Social Media Habits
  21. On Merrick Garland’s Confirmation
  22. Arrest First, Learn about Right Wing Terrorism Later
  23. FBI Seems Confident in the Granularity of Their Capitol Cell Tower Dumps
  24. FBI Had an Open Investigation into a QAnon Cultist Predicting World War 3 before January 6
  25. Dewey’s Aspirational View of Democracy
  26. FBI and DHS Aren’t Using the Free Expertise on Right Wing Terrorism While Looking to Pay for It
  27. On January 12, UK Granted Exception to Rule of Specialty in Minh Quang Pham Case
  28. Unpacking a January 6 Phone Warrant
  29. Insurrection Inciters Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Only Want the Violent January 6 Criminals Prosecuted
  30. Chain of Command: The AWOL Descriptions of the Commander in Chief’s Role in the National Guard Non-Response on January 6
  31. Federal Protective Services Looking for Terrorists on Facebook, Not TheDonald or Parler
  32. The Passport and the Antifa Hunt: The Militia Counter-Stories Emerge
  33. Josh Hawley Shocked and Alarmed to Discover the FBI Would Follow the Money behind Right Wing Terrorists
  34. Journalists May Be Most at Risk (as Described) from a Presumed January 6 GeoFence Warrant

February 2021

  1. Oath Keepers Learn the Hard Way: Don’t Plan an Insurrection on Facebook
  2. Beryl Howell Takes an Early Swipe at the Trump Made-Me-Do-It Defense and Other Detention Standards
  3. The Expected Plateau in New January 6 Defendants became a Stream of New Assault Suspects
  4. Congress versus the Constitution: Merrick Garland’s Second Reconstruction
  5. Dominic Pezzola Guesses Wrong, Gets Labeled a Terrorist for His Troubles
  6. Government Refuses to Let Steve Bannon Sneak Away from His Federal Fraud Indictment
  7. Dewey’s Functional Description Of Democracy
  8. A Tale of Two Zip Tie Guys: The Different Fates of Eric Munchel and Larry Brock
  9. Government Uses T-Word about the Oath Keepers
  10. Merrick Garland Is Killing It
  11. Jessica Watkins Defends Herself by Claiming the Armed Militia Parade Was Part of the Plan
  12. The New Recruits on the Front Line on January 6
  13. Enrique Tarrio Really Doesn’t Want the FBI to Search His Laptop
  14. Dominic Pezzola Suspects the FBI’s Cooperating Witness Is the Guy Who Recruited Him into the Proud Boys
  15. Stars, Guitars and Gear Trash Talk
  16. Open Thread: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Mars Landing
  17. Proud Boys “Cell Leader” William Chrestman Says He’s Not Organized Crime, Was Just Acting on Orders
  18. Bill Barr Claimed a Threat Meriting a Four Subpoena Investigation Didn’t Merit a Sentencing Enhancement
  19. Three Things: It’s Our Lucky Day
  20. Sealed Filings: The Serial Arrests of Insurrectionists Peter Stager, Jeffrey Sabol, and Michael Lopatic
  21. Bennie Thompson Sues Trump, His Mobsters, and Rudy G under the NAACP Act
  22. On Conspiracy
  23. Roger Stone Denies Palling Around with Alleged Terrorists [on January 6]
  24. Three Things: Eff These Effing Effers
  25. Mike Lee Provides Key Evidence Implicating Trump in the Existing Criminal Conspiracy
  26. Most People Suspected of Assaulting Officers in the January 6 Attack Remain at Large
  27. Flashbacks to the 2015 Campaign
  28. Failing At Democracy
  29. Republicans Prepare to Sanction a President Doing Nothing as the Country Was Assaulted by Terrorists
  30. Laughing in the Face of Denial
  31. Trump Impeachment II – The Beginning
  32. The Most Counterproductive Letter in Defense of Julian Assange
  33. Accused Insurrectionist Thomas Caldwell Claims to Have Top Secret Clearance
  34. In His Impeachment Defense, Trump Cites Mike Pence Admitting Trump Made an Unconstitutional Demand
  35. The Insurrection Affidavits Don’t Show Where the Insurrection Was Organized
  36. The Pandemic Super Bowl LV
  37. Another Violent Foot Soldier Radicalized by Donald Trump
  38. While Lindsey Graham Was Stalling Merrick Garland’s Confirmation He Was Hoping for Imminent Hunter Biden and John Durham News
  39. Raskin’s Gambit
  40. DOJ Moves Towards Parallel Conspiracy Prosecutions of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys
  41. The January 6 Investigation Remains in an Early Stage
  42. The Soft Bigotry of Expecting the Commander in Chief to Only Tweet
  43. The Mob Party
  44. Trump’s Impeachment Defense Is Silent about His Unconstitutional Demand of Mike Pence
  45. The Selfie Cops: Obstructing an Official Proceeding

January 2021

  1. Donnie The Wimp And His Impeachment Coffin
  2. The Role of Trump’s Incitement in Providing Violent Foot Soldiers [Updated]
  3. Dewey On The State
  4. Spaz: More than Just a Thumb Drive [Updated]
  5. Kevin Clinesmith Sentenced to a Year of Probation
  6. Trump’s Role in a Seditious Conspiracy Won’t Go Away with an Impeachment Vote
  7. Tunnels and Trump: The Missing Details in the Oath Keeper Conspiracy
  8. Whither the Douglass Mackey Investigation?
  9. A Tale of Two Zip-Tie Guys: Criminal Protestor or Armed Insurrectionist?
  10. Peter Strzok Subpoenas Trump’s Soccer Ball from Putin
  11. A DOJ IG Investigation Is Insufficient to Investigate Trump’s Attempt to Get DOJ Help to Steal the Election
  12. Some Key Gaps in the January 6 Story [Updated]
  13. Grits: The Difference between Joshua Schulte’s Complaints about SAMs and Those of His Attorneys
  14. Bill Barr’s Entire DOJ Chased Trump Conspiracy Theories and Plotted Inappropriately
  15. Just Another Manic Sunday Conference Championship In Pandemic
  16. Prosecuting the Trump Coup Attempt Compared to the J20 Prosecution
  17. The Baraitser Decision’s Impact (or Not) on Journalism
  18. Productive Ways to Hold Trump Accountable
  19. Larry King Is Dead, Long Live The King
  20. Zip-Tie Guy’s Release on Bail Is Why Donald Trump Must Be Prosecuted
  21. The DOD Flunkies’ Convenient Lapse of Executive Privilege
  22. Now We Know Why Jeffrey Rosen Has Been Silent, How About Chris Wray?
  23. Crowdsourced Timeline: Tick-Tock to Insurrection and Beyond [UPDATE-3]
  24. “Stand Back and Stand By:” The Proud Boys Node of the January 6 Attack
  25. In November, Emmet Sullivan Suggested He Might Not Be Done with DOJ and Mike Flynn
  26. Amanda Gorman Made Silvester Beaman Sad, Joe Biden Happy, and John Lewis Dance
  27. Inauguration Day 2021: Celebrate!
  28. Bannon Turned Out to Be the Irreplaceable One
  29. Minority Report: Biden’s Waiver-Needed SecDef Nominee Lloyd Austin
  30. The First Node of the Insurrection Conspiracy: The Oath Keepers
  31. Trump’s Second Impeachment Has Already Had a Beneficial Effect
  32. But His Emails! Kushner’s Unique Exposure under the Presidential Records Act
  33. The Recent Radicalization of the Woman Who Allegedly Stole the Pelosi Laptop
  34. The Press Continues to Help Billy Barr Whitewash His Complicity in January 6
  35. OpSec Shaming Misses the Terrorists for the Forest of Bozos They Hid Behind
  36. Where’s The Anger? Where Are The Consequences?
  37. The Mike Flynn Interviews (Updated)
  38. NFL Divisional Playoffs In Pandemic Trash Talk
  39. Advancing Our Country Forward, A Security Perspective
  40. Rudy Giuliani and Jack Posobiec Claim a False Flag
  41. Three Things: Good, Better, Best News
  42. Impeaching Donald John Trump — Again [UPDATE-3]
  43. Why I Agreed to Stop Calling Liz Cheney “BabyDick”
  44. Where’s Rudy?
  45. Four Data Points on the January 6 Insurrection
  46. Julian Assange Officially Asks Trump to Pardon Him for Helping Him Get Elected
  47. The Unaddressed Counterintelligence Threat of Rudy Giuliani
  48. Triage and Impeachment: Prioritize a Legitimate Criminal Investigation into the Wider Plot over Impeachment
  49. NFL Playoff Football Is Back, And We’re Gonna Get In Trouble Trash Talk
  50. Once Again Trump’s Self-Victimhood Distracts from His Negligence
  51. Bunker: Trump’s Exposure in the Insurrection Makes PardonPalooza More Complicated
  52. Timing Matters: Impeach, Convict, Remove NOW [UPDATE-1]
  53. Investigate Tommy Tuberville’s Pre-Speech and Debate Actions
  54. Second Impeachment Ahead: Articles Have Been Drafted [UPDATE-3]
  55. Bill Barr Keeps Pretending (Falsely) That He Didn’t Encourage Yesterday’s Insurrection
  56. The Trump Effect: Attempted Coup Edition
  57. Insurrection Be Damned: Congress’s Session Resumed
  58. Sedition in Progress: U.S. Senate in Lockdown [UPDATE-9]
  59. Why Merrick Garland Is a Better Attorney General Pick Than You Think
  60. “Dems in Disarray” as the GOP Fractures over Trump
  61. Good Trouble
  62. ‘I Just Want to Find 11,780 Votes’
  63. UK Judge Refuses to Extradite Julian Assange on Humanitarian Grounds [Update with Bail Denial]
  64. Lordy, There Are Tapes
  65. Curing the Donald Trump Spell: The Problem
  66. Russian Flight: The Timing of the Assange Charges
  67. Who Did More This Year to Help their (or anyone else’s) Country?

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