
A New Kind of Fake News Assault: 47 Sites (Including Zero Hedge) Steal an emptywheel Post
A week ago, close to 50 dodgy sites stole an emptywheel post on disinformation.
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Ruin a Movie with a Name: Get Carter (Page)
Erstwhile Trump campaign adviser Carter Page comes off looking sketchier than ever after TIME reported last evening that Page characterized himself as an informal adviser to the Kremlin back in 2013. Let's take a step or two back and take a look at the bigger picture surrounding Page.

Recently Released Mueller Emails Show How Conservative He Was, Not How Aggressive
CNN is wrong to suggest two FOIAed email chains on the FBI's requests from GSA indicate Mueller hastened the investigation.

Are There Other Emails about the June 9 Meeting?
Something has been bugging me about this NYT story from last week reporting that, in a conference call with Mark Corallo on July 9, 2017 (see the timeline of events below), Hope Hicks told him emails on the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting…

Trumpian Motion
Even if you don’t want to pay attention, the threatening noise and action are everywhere.

In Defense of Suspected Russian Agent Carter Page, Michael Mukasey Just Gave Defense Attorneys a Big Gift
Michael Mukasey, who no doubt filed scores of declarations in criminal cases saying that letting a defense attorney view a FISA application to see if DOJ misled the FISA Court would harm national security, just endorsed releasing a FISA application publicly to do just that.

Nunes Is So Dumb He Missed the Most Likely Way the Trump Campaign Might Have Been Wiretapped
Devin Nunes is so stupid his memo doesn't even mention the most likely way that the government, by targeting Carter Page, might have spied on the Trump campaign.

Asha Rangappa Demands Progressive Left Drop Bad Faith Beliefs in Op-Ed Riddled with Errors Demonstrating [FBI's] Bad Faith
In a piece bizarrely blaming the "progressive left" for Devin Nunes' recent memo stunt, Asha Rangappa demonstrates how little she knows about what has happened with FISA in the last decade.

What Jackie Wallace Said, And Less Important Super Bowl 52 Trash Talk
On Super Bowl Eve, two stories seem prime: The first is about former 3X Super Bowl player and NFL star Jackie Wallace, a story of the difficulty of recovery and redemption, and Will Bunch's story of the heartwarming good of the Eagles.

The Harm Releasing the Nunes Memo Caused
DOJ presumably believes the release of the Nunes Memo hurt national security in three ways: it helped those Mueller is trying to investigate, provided another reason for our foreign partners to hesitate before sharing intelligence with us, and makes it more likely some defendants will get to review their FISA application going forward. The latter is actually the sole benefit of this release, though it's probably the biggest worry DOJ has about it.

Under Cover of the Nunes Memo, Russian Spooks Sneak Openly into Meetings with Trump's Administration
When Chuck Schumer raised questions about why Russia's top spooks were visiting DC in the last week, Treasury and CIA both responded with contempt.

The Trey Gowdy Retirement
Mock him all you want. But I suspect Trey Gowdy's decision to get out of partisan hackery may be an important development for the Mueller inquiry.

Remaking the World
"I am scared of everything" I loud-whispered to him repeatedly. He got a little in front of me, where he gets when he thinks I might absentmindedly walk into traffic. He listened, and I explained that it wasn't just that I couldn't see my future, I couldn't even imagine it. Whatever sense I had yesterday for who I would be in six months, for who I would be for the rest of my life, it had slipped away as we had walked out of that office. All that was left was a warm, indecipherable fog.
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Another Kind of Recovery: Post-Maria Puerto Rico and Health Care Critical Infrastructure
Hope you don't need an IV soon. I'll be thinking of people who do while Trump bloviates tonight about the state of our disunion.

Trump Has Told Friends and Aides that Paul Manafort Can Incriminate Him
Apparently Trump has told multiple friends and aides that Paul Manafort could incriminate him personally.

Byron York Confirms that Many Names and Sources Implicated Carter Page as an Agent of a Foreign Power
In an attempt to spin the GOP refusal to make Adam Schiff's memo refuting Devin Nunes' one, an anonymous source that might be Tom Rooney makes it clear that there are far more sources implicating Carter Page as an Agent of a Foreign Power than just the Steele dossier.

Defense Department Rules Data on Failure in Afghanistan Is Not Releasable
In a new trick following on its previous attempt at retroactive classification, the Department of Defense has now decided that the war in Afghanistan is going so badly that even unclassified data now can not be released.

On Disinformation and the Dossier
In which I revisit the question of whether the Christopher Steele dossier might be disinformation -- and ask why Chuck Grassley wants to know if Oleg Deripaska knew of the dossier.

Carter Page Did Not Need to be a Spy to be Targeted Under FISA
Trey Gowdy says

FBI Decided Four Months after They Arrested MalwareTech that He Told Them He Hadn't Been Drinking before the Arrest
The back and forth on discovery issues shows some additional funny details in the MalwareTech case.
