Why Is WikiLeaks Reading from ShadowBrokers' Kaspersky Script?

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emptywheel
With its release of CIA source code today, WikiLeaks seems to be picking up where Shadow Brokers left off in his last post.
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Is There More to Trump's Thumbs Up Picture?

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emptywheel
Was the picture of Trump's thumbs up about winning the election, or signaling support for Mohammed bin Salman's grand plans for the Middle East?
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[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]

HJC's Manager's Amendment Blows Open 702 Metadata Queries

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emptywheel
Recent changes in HJC's reauthorization for 702 reveal that FBI is searching on metadata plus in the content it gets from Section 702 warrantless surveillance.
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About the Timing of the Binney Meeting

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emptywheel
The Intercept is reporting that, on Trump's orders, Mike Pompeo met with Bill Binney on October 24 to understand his theory arguing that the DNC hack was in fact a leak. In an interview with The Intercept, Binney said Pompeo told him that…
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"The Goals That Are Being Scored" ... the Carter Page Saga

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emptywheel
Carter Page's testimony was so whack, Trey Gowdy had to ask him to define how he uses the term "meet."
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Be Wary of Jumping on the Changing Veselnitskaya Claims

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emptywheel
Natalia Veselnitskaya now claims that Don Jr suggested his father, if he got elected, might reverse the Magnitsky sanctions if he won. But there are reasons to treat that claim skeptically.
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The Curious Timing of Kushner's visit to KSA and the U.S.' EITI Exit

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Rayne
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner — he of the shaky memory and a massive debt in need of refinancing — met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman within the week the US withdrew from an anti-corruption effort and Saudi Arabia cracked down on corruption. What curious timing.
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Manafort's Lawyers Will Challenge the Legitimacy of Prosecuting the Ukrainian Money Laundering

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emptywheel
There's a footnote in Manafort's recent filings that has more legal and PR merit than observers are making out.
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Mueller Has Enough Prosecutors to Continue Walking and Chewing Gum While We’ve Been Watching Manafort

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emptywheel
The experience of the two teams we've seen so far in the Mueller investigation may suggest where each is headed -- and what parts of the investigation we're not seeing.
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The Slow Death of Neoliberalism: Part 4A The Nature of the Person

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Ed Walker
Corporations are the perfect person in neoliberal theory. The elites see themselves as the best because they were selected by the market, Naturally they should rule the world.
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Space City Trash Talk

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bmaz
It was the best of times, and the worst of times, in Space City this week.
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JD Gordon Says Any Investigators He's Been Speaking with, He's Been Honest

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emptywheel
Curiously, JD Gordon chose to explain what he has told investigators about his role on the campaign overseas, where it'd get less attention than it might here.
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On Metadata and Manipulation: the First Guccifer 2.0 Documents

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emptywheel
The AP story on the DNC hack has revealed yet another layer of deception the first documents released by Guccifer 2.0.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley Has Spent the Week Cowering from His Party's Legal Problems

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emptywheel
Chuck Grassley has a responsibility to do something about the burgeoning scandal of his party. Instead, he has just been cowering.
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On July 2016 Panel, George Papadopoulos Used Same Cover Organization as Joseph Mifsud

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Jim White
When George Papadopoulos appeared, along with several elected Republicans, on a panel for the American Jewish Committee in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention, he used a cover identity that is associated with one of the organizations also affiliated with Joseph Mifsud. Papadopoulos did not appear to claim association with the Trump campaign during the appearance.
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The Cost of the Lawfare Surrounding the Steele Dossier Will Vastly Outstrip Its Original Cost

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emptywheel
If you're going to pay to develop dirt, make sure that the blowback from it doesn't cost more in terms of dollars and damage than the actual dossier itself.
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What Does the White House Know about Sam Clovis that Chuck Grassley Claims Not To?

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emptywheel
Yesterday, Chuck Grassley said there was nothing in the emails involving Sam Clovis that might endanger his nomination to serve in the US Department of Agriculture. But it sounds like the White House doesn't entirely agree.
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The False Statements George Papadopoulos Made about "Dirt" Were Designed to Hide Whether He Told the Campaign about the Emails

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emptywheel
Reading how the government described George Papadopoulos' false statements makes it clear he lied to hide that he had told the campaign that Russia had Hillary emails they were offering up as dirt.
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Jeff Sessions Unforgets the Discussions with Russians He Twice Swore He Didn't Know About

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emptywheel
Jeff Sessions has twice lied under oath about knowing about the Trump campaign's outreach to Russia. In his latest unforgetting -- via anonymous sources to the press -- Sessions was the hero of the moment. But if he was, it means he lied to protect the President.
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