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Goldstone's Bare Facts: Attorney, Damaging Information, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Useful to the Trumps

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emptywheel
Rob Goldstone is right: he just did what we was told to do in inviting Don Jr to enter a conspiracy to violate election law. And the formula Emin Agalarov gave him to make that invitation included all the details needed to lay out receipts of the crime.
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August 2016: When Paulie's Panic Set In

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emptywheel
In August 2016, Paul Manafort was facing financial ruin and at least one blackmail attempt. What kind of desperate things might he have done to stave off ruin?
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Trump Tweets a Confession, Then Sekulow Admits His Client Has Been Lying about His Involvement

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emptywheel
Maybe the President and his lawyers think the best way to avoid an interview with Robert Mueller is to confess to everything before noon on Sunday morning? Because between Trump's tweets and Jay Sekulow's TV appearance, they just confessed to conspiring with Russia.
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On the Apparent Complexities of Charging Roger Stone

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emptywheel
A lot has gone on during the three months during which Roger Stone aide Andrew Miller has refused to appear before the Mueller grand jury.
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About That Styx Thing, A Re-Thinking

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bmaz
Had a busy day yesterday and then came to the stark understanding that a significant contributor to this blog had included a Styx Grand Illusion video in a post. I am hoping you can imagine my dismay! I still have not recovered. I just....I…
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The Russian NRA Spy: "Just Remember that It's a Grand Illusion"

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emptywheel
JD Gordon and Mariia Butina went to hear a live version of Styx' the Grand Illusion together in the heat of campaign season.
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GRU's Alice Donovan Persona Warned of a WannaCry-Like Event a Year before It Happened

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emptywheel
One of the articles serially published by the Alice Donovan persona attributed to GRU in the DNC hack indictment seems to have predicted global ransomeware attacks that would be launched a year later.
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Lawfare's Theory of L'Affaire Russe Misses the Kompromat for the Pee Glee

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emptywheel
As I disclosed last month, I provided information to the FBI on issues related to the Mueller investigation, so I’m going to include disclosure statements on Mueller investigation posts from here on out. I will include the disclosure…
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How ABC Broke a Story about Mueller LIMITING Questions on Obstruction and Claimed It Showed a Focus on Obstruction

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emptywheel
Why does the press treat statements Trump and Rudy make that the rest of us see as lies, but claims they present as big secrets as the truth? Robert Mueller is not focused on Trump primarily about obstruction and hasn't been for many months.
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The Non-EDVA Manafort Thread: Paulie Continues to Work for His Pardon

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emptywheel
Paul Manafort seems to be doing what he has been doing since he was first indicted: doing as much damage to Mueller's credibility (and now Rick Gates), as well as collecting information about the evidence Mueller has showing the conspiracy he and Trump engaged in with Russia to help him get elected, all in hopes he'll get a pardon for his troubles.
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Without Integrity: The Debunking of the Metadata Debunkers

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emptywheel
As I laid out a few weeks ago, I provided information to the FBI on issues related to the Mueller investigation, so I’m going to include disclosure statements on Mueller investigation posts from here on out. I will include the disclosure…
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Did GRU Learn that Democrats Had Hired Christopher Steele When They Hacked DNC's Email Server?

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emptywheel
The timeline laid out in the GRU indictment adds one more channel via which Russians may have learned that the Democrats had hired Christopher Steele to collect HUMINT on Russia's support for Trump: via stolen emails.
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Devin Nunes' Promise of Shock!! Shock!! in the Evolving Steele Claims in the Fourth Carter Page FISA Application

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emptywheel
Some details behind Devin Nunes' latest attempt to distract the right wing press corps.
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White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege In A Racially Divided America By Margaret Hagerman

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Ed Walker
Socializing affluent white kids in a racialized society.
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A Warning about Hype Surrounding the Manafort Tax Evasion Trial

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emptywheel
Paul Manafort goes to trial this week. But this trial is unlikely to provide the big Mueller break news outlets will hype it for.
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The MalwareTech Case Resets to Zero: A Dialogue Wherein the Government Repeats "YouTube" Over and Over

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emptywheel
The government's latest attempt to argue their ill-considered prosecution of MalwareTech makes sense reads like this: "YouTube! Try this dictionary! YouTube! Or maybe this dictionary! YouTube!"
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The Info Ops Unit at GRU, Not the Technical Hacking Unit, Hacked the State Boards of Election Servers

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emptywheel
The GRU indictment suggests a division of labor between the two GRU units cited in the hack: Unit 26165 did the technical hacking, whereas Unit 74455 did the information operations. If that division of labor holds, it suggests the hacks of State Boards of Election and VR Systems in the days before the November 2016 election, which were done by Unit 74455, may have been designed as propaganda.
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The Worm Turns: Neither Devin Nunes Nor Ron DeSantis (Thus Far) Support Jim Jordan's Impeachment Bid

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emptywheel
Ron DeSantis has not yet joined in the effort to impeach Rod Rosenstein. That suggests that even someone whose immediate electoral prospects depend on the vocal support of Donald Trump thinks doing so will be an electoral plus.
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BREAKING! NYT Discovers Tweets They Discovered 3 Months Ago

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emptywheel
Maggie and Mike rehash a story the NYT broke in April, all so Rudy can dismiss the seriousness of the Mueller investigation again.
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Journalist Records from the "Last Five Years"

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emptywheel
When DOJ responded to Ron Wyden's questions about whether they've changed their approach to seizing journalists' records, the government may have been engaging in linguistic parsing.
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