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Trash Talk A Geaux Geaux

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bmaz
Tom Brady is 3 yards and a cloud of dust away from 1,000 rushing yards for his career. You laugh, but among the best QB's in recent memory, Brady trails only Fran Tarkenton, Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre and Big Ben. That is kind of shocking. To…
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US Government Reveals It Has Video Evidence of Joshua Schulte Sharing Classified Information as Ecuador Restricts Assange's Legal Visits

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emptywheel
On Wednesday, the government rolled out new charges against alleged Vault 7 source, Joshua Schulte, accusing him of continuing to leak classified information while in jail. That same day, amid a fight that many people believe will lead to his expulsion from the embassy, Ecuador restricted his visits, even from lawyers, through the weekend.
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Confirmed: Listening to Whistleblower John Reidy Could Have Saved the Lives of Numerous CIA Assets

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emptywheel
Yahoo confirms something I've suspect for some time: the communications vulnerability that allowed China to roll up the CIA's network of spies is the same vulnerability John Reidy first started warning about in 2007.
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Stone v NYT: The Treachery of Dueling Incomplete Stories

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emptywheel
The thing I'm most certain about the dueling NYT and Stone explanations for some emails sent between Steve Bannon and Roger Stone in early October 2016 is both sides are hiding something.
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Could Roger Stone Be Charged in a CFAA Conspiracy?

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emptywheel
While I'm on the record saying I think Roger Stone is most likely to be charged with ConFraudUs, given a detail in the GRU indictment, I think it possible he'd be charged in a CFAA conspiracy as well.
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No, Mueller Probably Didn't Subpoena Trump, Yet

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emptywheel
I think any of a number of possibilities for the identity of the mystery appellant challenging a Mueller order are more likely than the President.
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Why Did Rebekah Mercer and Steve Bannon Start Preparing an Accusation that Hillary Had Corrupt Ties with Russia Starting on March 14, 2016?

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emptywheel
Robert Mueller just had Steve Bannon in for another round of questioning. Here's why that news may be the most interesting Roger Stone news in a while.
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The Purpose of a Mueller Report: for Referral to Congress If He Gets Fired

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emptywheel
I've said repeatedly that I think Mueller will continue to speak via indictments, not the report that Rudy Giuliani has everyone focused on. But if Trump tries to end the Mueller inquiry, than a report written in the style of the Jaworski Road Map would provide a way to ensure the House Judiciary Committee under Jerrold Nadler could continue the investigation.
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Judicial Watch's Eighteen Month Soros Conspiracy Theory

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emptywheel
It turns out that Judicial Watch has been making anti-Semitic attacks on Soros going back 18 months, to around the same time Viktor Orbán started targeting Soros' CEU. At least once, Dobbs even had JW's Chris Farrell on made the argument that Soros' "tampering" during the Obama Administration justified Putin's tampering in US elections in 2016.
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Trump Refuses to Keep This Country Safe from Terrorism

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emptywheel
Republicans believe that a President who refuses to take a very aggressive approach to terrorism should not be President. So for those Republicans, let's make this an issue not of the ways Trump's network fostered actions like we saw last week, but how Trump's Administration has chosen not to combat terrorism.
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Democracy Against Capitalism: Conclusion Part 2

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Ed Walker
Even a favorable view of capitalism offers little hope for the future. Updated
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When Insisting on the Letter of the Law Counts Amounts to Being "Hyper-Technical"

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emptywheel
MalwareTech lost on all his challenges to his indictment. Largely this amounted to a punt on the part of the magistrate, treating technical precedents as mere interpretations that the government can ignore at will.
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Mueller Had Learned by February 22 that Roger Stone Was Pushing an Assange Pardon in January

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emptywheel
I'm as interesting in how quickly Robert Mueller learned that Roger Stone was trying to get Julian Assange a pardon as I am that he made that effort earlier this year.
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Maria Butina's Legal Team Embraces Disinformation (with Help from Russia)

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emptywheel
Just days after DOJ sent Maria Butina's lawyers a letter asking why it hasn't picked up discovery made available a month ago, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spox is now claiming that DOJ hasn't given Butina discovery.
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The Universe of Hacked and Leaked Emails from 2016: Podesta Emails

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emptywheel
The story on how John Podesta's emails got to WikiLeaks -- a story Mueller didn't tell in his GRU indictment -- is critical to questions about what Roger Stone knew when.
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Detour: Roger Stone's Epically Shitty Explanation for His Podesta Tweet

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emptywheel
I've written before about how shitty Roger Stone's explanation for his "Podesta's time in the barrel" tweet. It's even shittier than I've written.
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Democracy Against Capitalism: Conclusion Part 1

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Ed Walker
Marxism paints a bleak picture of the effects of capitalism on the planet and on individuals.
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On the Roger Stone Investigation: Talking to Guccifer 2.0 or WikiLeaks Is Not a Crime

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emptywheel
The press continues to report breathlessly that Mueller is scrutinizing whether Roger Stone had advance knowledge of WikiLeaks' plans. He's probably scrutinizing far more than that, because that by itself is not a crime.
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The Universe of Hacked and Leaked Emails from 2016: DNC Emails

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emptywheel
This series will try to capture what we know about four sets of emails Russians may have been dealing in 2016: the DNC emails, the Podesta emails, the DCCC emails, and the mythical emails Hillary deleted from her server.
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