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Two years after identifying what were clear security problems in the course of searching for Lisa Page and Peter Strzok's texts, DOJ's Inspector General is recommending that FBI fix the problem.

We prohibit extortion -- except when it's health care. This is an open thread.

Whatever Paul Manafort lied about with prosecutors from another district, it pertained to "saving the candidate."

Paul Manafort walked Konstantin Kilimnik through recent, highly detailed polling data in NYC on August 2, 2016. And he's willing to bet that lying about that fact is his best chance for a pardon. 

Roger Stone submitted two motions in his defense today. The first, opposing a gag in the case, is rigorous and will make for an interesting legal battle (until such time as Stone violates the protective order in the case, in which case it'll…

Why I use the term Big Dick Toilet Salesman to refer to Matt Whitaker.

Matt Whitaker seems poised to refuse to show up to an HJC hearing -- citing a subpoena requiring his testimony -- to avoid answering a bunch of questions about Trump's continued tampering with the Mueller investigation.

Still puzzling: Why did contract editors complain about Facebook's bias to a struggling Gawker outlet just after Trump became the presumptive nominee and before Gawker filed bankruptcy?

As Mueller's filings had previous suggested, the efforts to set up a meeting between Michael Cohen and Vladimir Putin did take place in the wake of the June 9 Trump Tower meeting.