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In spite of the fact that -- as Buzzfeed reports -- Felix Sater has past relationships with six members of Mueller's team, they didn't get around to interviewing him until after Mike Flynn's plea deal.

Back in June, Putin imagined that any Russians (not connected to the state, of course!) who hacked the US would be patriots. Now, he's suggesting they'd be Others, not true Russians. What changed?

David Corn and Michael Isikoff tell the same story about how Obama ordered his NSC to stand down from any aggressive response to Putin's hack of the election.

Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska just wrote a very well executed column seemingly attempting to get ahead of something in the Mueller investigation.

In Roger Stone's denial of conspiring with the Russians yesterday, he effectively admits to reaching out to the person he believed at the time to have hacked the DNC.

Sam Nunberg's the one leaking his subpoena to half the journalists in DC. Is he doing it to protect Bannon?

The most interesting thing about a subpoena Axios replicated is that it places the start date for Mueller's interest at the moment when Felix Sater was envisioning a real estate deal in Moscow might get Trump elected.

Hicks has now committed to a story that suggests the lie about the Sergey Kislyak conversation came from Flynn and not someone else, someone like Kushner or Trump himself, even while she has dodged answering about whether any of those other people asked her to lie about that or similar issues. 

A motley collection of things on my desk, fit only for an open thread -- stock and commodities markets this morning, a little playing with language, some cyber. The usual around here.

Brief reflections on my series on Trumpian Motion.