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Carter Page's incoherent ramblings may not actually be denial and deception. But Donald Trump's (and Paul Manafort's) sure look to be. 

Oh great, 412 pages to read, crazy-pants interview to watch, Twitter threads and blog posts to peruse, and now a timeline to check. Damn you, Page -- as if I had nothing better to do this week. This is an open thread.

I think the problems with the Steele dossier and how the FBI used it are probably the biggest reason why FBI hasn't put all the evidence they have showing Carter Page was happy to work for the Russians in an indictment.

It's interesting how certain narratives are pushed when tensions rise. But are they really theories or conditioning? What other conditioning might happen if media infrastructure changed? This is an open thread.

The redacted sections of Amy Berman Jackson's order ruling the search of Paul Manafort's condo proper strongly suggest she used the June 9 meeting as one basis to permit the government to keep Manafort's iPods.

Normally I agree that our habit of charging foreign nation-state spies with hacking in the US is problematic. But in the case of the election year operation, where Americans are going to be named in conspiracies with Russians, I think it may be necessary.

In a carefully performed role, Vladimir Putin just reenacted the June 9 Trump Tower meeting on the world stage.

We were warned in 1999, and again in 2013 if not earlier. Asymmetric warfare is here to stay.

Roger Stone's first instinct when seeing himself described in an indictment of those who illegal helped Trump get elected was to say he couldn't be the guy described in the indictment because he only speaks to Trump. Now he's backtracking on that.