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Waveland and The North Side, Sweet Home Chicago

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bmaz
The Cubs winning the World Series in the middle of the 2016 election shitstorm is a welcome thing. We are all long suffering Cubs fans at this point, waiting for the insane drought to be over.
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Threat Level Orange! Election Week Plot!

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emptywheel
The FBI leaked a terrorist threat, scheduled for Monday in maybe NY, TX, or VA, to CBS this morning. It leaked the story even though "the credibility hadn't been confirmed." Later in the day, it tried to hide that the FBI was the source of the leak.
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"Glitch!" FBI's Three Leaked Claims about the Delay in Obtaining a Warrant for Huma's Email

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emptywheel
The FBI appears to be trying to come up with an explanation for why they waited 3 weeks to get a warrant to read Huma Abedin's emails. Those claims aren't credible.
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Europe Gets Impatient for Yahoo Answers

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emptywheel
Predictably, European authorities are demanding answers about the scan of all incoming emails the FBI ordered Yahoo to do last year.
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Now Would Be a Good Time to Restore Statutory Authority of DOJ's Inspector General

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emptywheel
DOJ's Inspector General is one of the few entities that I think can start cleaning up all the misconduct being revealed by the leaks about the investigations into Hillary Clinton. Except the FBI has spent 6 years undermining the IG's ability to investigate the Bureau.
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Wednesday: Feliz Dia de los Muertos — Happy Day of the Dead!

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Rayne
In this Dia de los Muertos roundup: World Series Game 7, Rule 41, AT&T and net neutrality, Google spanks Microsoft, Slack smacks.
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My Boob Clinic Is Part of an International Spying Plot ... but Hillary's on It!

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emptywheel
Once again, the left, up to and including Hillary, has jumped on a dodgy story without vetting its substance. But this time it's personal -- because it involves my own doctor's office.
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If Richard Burr Jokes about Assassination in Secret, What Else Does He Joke about in Secret?

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emptywheel
Richard Burr makes the third inappropriate joke of recent years, the second about assassination. Given that this one, made to a small group of campaign volunteers, was not "public," it raises questions about what kinds of jokes he tells in his even more private meetings with spooks.
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Or Maybe the FBI Really Did Have a Reason to Stay Off the Russian Attribution?

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emptywheel
CNBC has an anonymous source claiming Jim Comey didn't want FBI tied to the IC attribution of the DNC hacks to Russia because of the election. But it would be consistent with past FBI leaks that the concern had more to do with the chain of evidence tying Russia to the leaks.
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Halloween Monday: Dying for Love

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Rayne
In this roundup: Turkish troubles, good tech bad tech, fickle market reaction, and Halloween tricks-or-treats.
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Anthony Weiner Creates a Virgin Birth for Evidence the Clinton Foundation Investigators Want

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emptywheel
In addition to reopening the email server investigation, by obtaining a new copy of thousands of Huma Abedin's emails, the FBI has also obtained via separate means information that Clinton Foundation investigators had been prohibited from obtaining.
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London Calling: What Is The NFL Doing? And other Trash Talk

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bmaz
Arighty then, this is going to be an abbreviated Trash Talk. I saw the Twitters yesterday, but spent the great majority of the day from early morning here, to mid afternoon, by which time I had some heat stroke and was paralyzed. Sorry about…
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The Story About Judicial Dysfunction Behind the Comey Whiplash

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emptywheel
Former DOJ officials would like you to believe the scandal surrounding Comey's behavior in the Clinton investigation is limited to this particular investigation. But it actually suggests far more is wrong at DOJ.
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Saturday: Hey! It's Apple Picking Season

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Rayne
It's apple picking season. Take that how you will. This is an open thread.
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Friday: Sinnerman

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Rayne
In this roundup: A look outside the U.S.' borders -- TTIP's near-death event, Turkey at risk, Chile and women's reproductive rights, more, and Sinnerman
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FBI Has Almost 20 Cybers Stationed around the World

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emptywheel
The FBI has almost 20 assistant cybersecurity legal attachés around the world. What rules do they have to play by?
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Consent of the Governed

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Rayne
This government instituted among men shouldn't forget how it derives its legitimacy: from the consent of the governed.
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Security, Territory and Population: Foucault on Power

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Ed Walker
The focus of Security, Territory and Population is power as exercised by government. In a Novermber 1980 interview, Foucault discussed his thoughts on power informally.
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