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Given an exchange between some Democratic Senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, it seems that Coats is using classification to hide protect Trump from embarrassment.

We're at a point where it's nearly impossible to describe the scope of Trump's corruption. One way to try might be to describe the damage he's doing to the country.

One thing that would be consistent with reporting on the NSA's termination of the Section 215 program is that it was improperly using it to collect encrypted app metadata.

Reading the metadata of the HJC requests suggest which packages took longer to get approved.

The NSA appears to have stopped trying to collect Call Detail Records under the USA Freedom Act.

While the average business makes a reasonable effort to reduce its tax burden, the Trump organization made it a pattern of habit to do so aggressively with its golf course businesses.

In which I read through redactions again.

Michael Cohen's testimony makes it clear that Donald Trump took overt actions to advance the election year conspiracy, even if Cohen doesn't have a smoking gun proving that Trump masterminded it.

The NYT continues to dig in on the cover stories that someone fed it about Manafort sharing polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik back in January. But their latest story actually raises a real question: Did prosecutors talk to Manafort about the May 2016 meeting with Kilimnik?

In what was a final effort to change their explanation for why Trump's campaign manager shared campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik (or perhaps to inform co-conspirators), Manafort's lawyers also revealed there were 75 pages of the data.