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To understand what the I Con the Record Transparency numbers mean, you first have to understand that these numbers measure just one part of all national security collection.

Contrary to what a lot of people understand of the case, Jeffrey Sterling was not the CIA's first suspect for the Merlin leaks to James Risen. Senate Intelligence Committee Staff Director Bill Duhnke was. As former CIA press person Bill Harlow…

Mueller seems to be closely investigating the overlap between oligarch bribery and foreign policy. Otherwise known as the Jared peace plan.

In the year since Trump has fired Comey, he has just exacerbated his woes with his repeated public efforts to obstruct the investigation. But his involvement in the messaging about the June 9 Trump Tower meeting is probably the most damning thing he did in the last year, one backing real "collusion," not a cover-up.

Greenberg Traurig just made Rudy quit the firm. The best part of that is the timing: the one year anniversary of Comey's firing.

Gina Haspel's answers about PPD-28 are consistent with a possibility that the Trump Administration made minor changes last year without publicly noting them.

One of Ron Wyden's questions of Gina Haspel makes it clear she was part of a successful effort to force DOJ and the White House to reauthorize torture in 2005 by torturing a detainee before approval had been finalized.

Among the weaknesses of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on election tampering are that it remains silent about Congress' past and future role -- including that of Mitch McConnell -- but it also never considered Russian compromise of vendors.

The Putin crony whose companies and person got charged in the Internet Research Agency indictment has made it clear he's going to inflict a cost on DOJ for doing so. It may have repercussions on how Mueller will proceed with other legal cases, not to mention similar cases in the future.

Given TS Ellis' focus on the probability Mueller charged Paul Manafort with tax charges only to get him flip in the investigation against Trump, I find it notable that Mueller's EDVA brief did not include language the DC brief did on doing just that.