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The government is going to fairly serious lengths to make sure that Joshua Schulte can't leak any of the classified information they share with him as part of discovery.

As you likely know by now, Trump fixer Michael Cohen is getting sentenced this morning. In fact, the proceeding is starting as I write this post, so I am going to get it up so that there is an appropriate place to discuss the events. There…

Back in November, I argued that Roger Stone's claims to be innocent of the GRU's hacks on DNC targets might not hold up given that GRU hacked the DNC analytics hosted on AWS in September. Information the DNC lawsuit against Trump, Stone, and others shows that at least some of that hack did post-date a Stone conversation about analytics.

SDNY's prosecutors noted something in yesterday's Cohen filing that will probably become increasingly problematic for Individual-1: because Trump and his fixer had a run-in with the FEC in 2013 -- from which they were saved by their future campaign lawyer Don McGahn -- they can't claim to be ignorant about campaign finance law.

While it's unclear whether Mueller was also stalling, the details offered in Mueller's plea beach motion seem to suggest that Paul Manafort used his plea just to stall for time.

Trump is furious that the press reported that he's increasingly unprepared to write the rebuttal attack that half his Russian investigation strategy depends on. He should be more furious that his advisors haven't pointed out that Mueller has already released 127 pages of his report.

The addendum describing Mike Flynn's cooperation makes it clear that Flynn did lie to Mike Pence before the Vice President elect repeated those lies on Face the Nation. The redacted lines after that reference are probably a real problem for the President.

Under an alternative theory of the structure of Mike Flynn's cooperation addendum, he may have cooperated on matters pertaining to Mueller's expanded investigation.

For over two years, Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone have been crafting a series of nested cover stories to hide the details of how they learned in August details of what WikiLeaks would release in October. It's fairly clear, this Matryoshka cover-up has become part of Mueller's investigation. It all suggests that whatever lies inside that last little doll is something so damning that the guy with the Nixon tattoo allowed the cover-up to become a second crime.