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The Manafort indictment is so solidly within the scope of Mueller's authority because the larger project is to demonstrate that, by bypassing the agencies mandated with preventing foreign sabotage of our democratic process, the Russian-backed efforts broke a more fundamental law. 

The most interesting aspect of the Mueller indictment of 13 Russian trolls and their managers is how it parallels the conspiracy to defraud the US charge against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates.

Bring your discussions about guns here. Keep them out of other threads so that others can have uninterrupted discussions on topic.

Everything is on hold in the Rick Gates plea, including the details on what other crimes he has committed.

A 2016 scuffle in Moscow between an American diplomat and a FSB guard didn't occur in complete isolation. Rather, an academic speech by an erstwhile foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign didn't happen completely independent of other political events in Russia.

Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have gotten so paranoid about Christopher Steele they're seeing him where Mike Flynn probably really lurks.

Will Hurd is normally an adult, but departed from that norm when he voted to release the Nunes memo. Now, he's trying to spin criticism of the Nunes memo hoax as Russian disinformation.

Centrists haven't figured out that their habitus isn't working, let alone how to change.

The hearing transcript on the release of the Democratic memo had one nugget of news: The FBI hadn't even subpoeaned George Papadopoulos' social media call records until after he was interviewed two times.

If the Rob Porter scandal hadn't broken, would the White House have just continued to let multiple staffers who couldn't get clearance continue to work with the nation's most sensitive secrets?