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Robert Mueller Finally Found a Way to Get Paul Manafort to Keep a Secret

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emptywheel
Paul Manafort's failure to file an unsealed filing due yesterday may have as much to do with the reasons Mueller couldn't wait to obtain Roger Stone's House Intelligence transcripts last month as with any tardiness on his lawyers' part.
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Will the Press Recognize They Also Deserve a Scolding for Parroting Eric Dubelier's Nude Selfie Stunt?

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emptywheel
Judge Dabney Friedrich called Concord Management's trollish lawyers into today to yell at them for their recent trollish court filings. Will the press realize they, too, should be included in her accusations of unprofessional behavior?
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It Is False and Defamatory to Accuse WikiLeaks of a Bunch of Things that Aren't the Key Allegations against It

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emptywheel
WikiLeaks denies a lot in a list of things it says would be defamatory for journalists to print. None of those denials address the key charges against the organization.
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On Narrating Donald Trump: "Shoot me like I’m shot on 'The Apprentice'"

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emptywheel
Trump is still trying to maintain the image of power that a ton of editing produced on The Apprentice. “Shoot me like I’m shot on ‘The Apprentice.’” But he has no producer, not even a Chief of Staff, to make that happen now.
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Dancing With Ms. AOC (and other weekend talk)

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bmaz
Apparently the ignorant bigot Trumpalos set things a little bit of Footloose is now some kind of slam on AOC. But it it is not. It is just stupid. Seriously, what kind of bigots go there? AOC is bigger and better than that, why are her detractors…
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Attacking The Neoliberal Ideology

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Ed Walker
Introducing the second phase of my neoliberalism project.
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The William Barr Case for Impeaching Donald Trump: From Whom Did Trump Suborn False Statements?

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emptywheel
Mueller's obstruction investigation was likely always premised on a theory of obstruction that Trump's presumed Attorney General nominee William Barr has argued does merit investigation and impeachment: that Trump ordered his subordinates to lie to obstruct an investigation.
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Prosecutors Cite Osiris in an Attempt to Resuscitate Dead Law against Marcus Hutchins

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emptywheel
The government is now blaming Marcus Hutchins for malware several generations removed from any code he wrote.
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Impeachment and the Narcissist's Off-Ramp

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emptywheel
Even if we do get to the point where indictment or impeachment became viable (and I'm not sure we will), it's worth thinking about whether pursuing either one might just trigger a narcissistic response that will only lead Trump to do further damage to this country. 
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Sam Patten Reminds Us Cooperation Deals Are Not Cookie Cutters

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emptywheel
The best explanation for a sealed status report in Sam Patten's case is that it has something to do with Paul Manafort's decisions about what to do about his lies to Mueller.
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Hal Martin Manages to Obtain a Better Legal Outcome than Reality Winner, But It Likely Doesn't Matter

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emptywheel
A filing released earlier this month seems to suggest the FBI really fucked up when it raided Hal Martin's home with almost 20 Agents, including a SWAT team.
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If Trump Is So Concerned that a DOJ Contractor Failed to Archive Texts, Why Not Hold the Contractor Accountable?

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emptywheel
The President and his TV lawyer continue to spin a contractor's failure as an attempt on Mueller's part to obstruct justice. Perhaps it's time the focus shifted to the contractor who still continues to fail 10% of the time?
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Someone Has Already Been Charged for Most of the Actions the Steele Dossier Attributes to Michael Cohen

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emptywheel
While we've been debating about whether Michael Cohen was in Prague, Mueller has been providing evidence about the people who performed the function in the information operation that the Steele dossier alleges Cohen performed.
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End Of Year/New Year's Bad Boy Trash Talk

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bmaz
It is yet another end of the year. On a weekend, that, with the New Year holiday, will stretch out. So this will likely be the Trash Talk post that takes us through all that. Speaking of an end of the year compendium, do go read Alex Pareene's…
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Mueller Would Not Have Needed a Foreign Intelligence Agency to Geolocate Michael Cohen's Phone

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emptywheel
McClatchy continues to chase the Michael Cohen in Prague story, as if that -- and not abundant other, corroborated evidence -- is the only thing that can prove a Trump conspiracy with Russia.
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Tit-for-Tat: What Mike Flynn's 302 Reveals about the Lies He Told

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emptywheel
Mike Flynn's efforts to hide his coordination with other Trump Transition officials on how to respond to Sergei Kislyak would have made it look like he was undermining both the Trump Administration and the interests of the United States. It turns out he was only doing the latter. It turns out he was only doing the latter.
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The Ghosts Of Christmas Eves Past

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bmaz
Here we are, heading into Christmas. Everybody, is slowing down and heading into the holidays. We all are. Things often get a tad scarce this time of year, but we would like to say Hi, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Mele Kalikimaka…
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Putin's Chef, Evgeniy Prigozhin, Says He Needs Discovery So He Can Figure Out if He's Putin's Boss or His Chef

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emptywheel
Among the more trollish arguments in Yevgeniy Prigozhin's latest troll argument in defense of his troll attack on the 2016 election is that Prigozhin has to get all the discovery turned over to Concord's lawyers because only he can tell whether he's Putin's boss, or his chef.
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We Will Not Get Peace from the People Who Dismember Dissidents Alive

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emptywheel
Those who embrace Trump's withdrawal as a means to end the forever war have a lot of work to do to ensure it doesn't actually bring more war.
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