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The Witness List for the Michael Sussmann Trial

According to the transcript for the pre-trial hearing yesterday, here is the status of the witness lists. The most interesting one, to me, is Michael Horowitz, who presumably will testify that Rodney...

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Thirty Months after Disputing Michael Horowitz, Durham’s Team Suggests...

In Michael Sussmann’s filing explaining that he couldn’t include highly exculpatory notes — written by Tashina Gaushar, Mary McCord, and Scott Schools — from a March 6, 2017 meeting in his motion in...

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John Durham Is Prosecuting Michael Sussmann for Sharing a Tip on...

Thanks to those who’ve donated to help defray the costs of trial transcripts. Your generosity has funded the expected costs. If you appreciate the kind of coverage no one else is offering, we’re still...

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Apprehension and Dread with Bates Stamps: The Case of Jim Baker’s Missing...

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There Was No Crime Predicating the Durham Investigation

Deep in a NYT piece that suggests but does not conclude that John Durham’s purpose is to feed conspiracy theories, Charlie Savage writes, Mr. Barr’s mandate to Mr. Durham appears to have been to...

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“All Texts Demanded!” Right Wingers No Longer Worried about “Wiped” Phones,...

As noted in the last thread, more than twelve hours later on the same day that federal agents conducted a search on Jeffrey Clark’s home in Virginia, FBI agents seized John Eastman’s phone as he was...

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The Overt Investigative Steps into Trump’s Co-Conspirators TV Lawyers Ignored

The first overt act in the investigation into Donald Trump’s six co-conspirators happened on January 25, 2021. The Jeffrey Clark investigation started at DOJ IG On that day, DOJ Inspector General...

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“Ebb and Flow:” How David Weiss Volunteered for a Subpoena, or Worse

Politico and NYT have stories — relying on what Politico describes as, “more than 300 pages of previously unreported emails and documents exchanged between Hunter Biden’s legal team and prosecutors,” —...

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In His House Judiciary Committee Testimony, John Durham Confessed that...

Given all the discussion of Trump ordering prosecutors to go after his political enemies, I want to go back — way back — to comment on something John Durham said at his House Judiciary Committee...

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On the Missing Inspector General Report[s] about Wilbur Ross’ Lies

There was a big news blitz yesterday on the news that the Commerce Department’s Inspector General had concluded Wilbur Ross twice misled Congress about the rationale for including a citizenship...

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Why Did DOJ Delay Seven Months before Letting Jeffrey Rosen Testify?

On January 22 — after Jeffrey Rosen was no longer Acting Attorney General but before Trump’s second impeachment trial — Katie Benner published a story describing Trump’s efforts to get Jeffrey Bossert...

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The Two New Material Errors Are the News from the IG Report on Woods File Errors

Footnote 14 in a DOJ Inspector General Report summarizing the problems with the FBI’s compliance with the Woods requirement released last week claims to lay out why reviewing Woods file compliance is a...

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Andrew McCabe Got His Pension and His Cufflinks — But Is that Adequate...

As part of a settlement DOJ entered into yesterday to avoid giving Andrew McCabe discovery on the full extent of the politicized campaign against him, DOJ agreed to give him his retirement — and the...

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Hillary’s Candidate Briefing Was More Contentious than Mike Flynn’s

The DOJ IG Report on Carter Page revealed that FBI Agent Joe Pientka was selected as the FBI counterintelligence briefer for both Presidential candidates in 2016 in part to give him familiarity with...

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John Durham Had No Idea Michael Sussmann Provided Another Anonymous Tip on...

John Durham’s team has submitted a filing asking for an extension on its discovery deadlines in the Michael Sussmann case. It’s interesting as a relief map of the conspiracy theory-oops-I-mean-charge...

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John Durham Flew to Italy to Get Joseph Mifsud’s Blackberries But Never...

Back in 2019, when John Durham undercut DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s conclusion that, for all the problems in the Carter Page FISA, the investigation itself was properly predicated and...

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On Unrealistic Expectations for Mueller Report Obstruction Charges

Among those whinging that Merrick Garland hasn’t imprisoned Donald Trump yet, there is an apparent belief that the Mueller Report left obstruction charges all wrapped up in a bow, as if the next...

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Donald Trump Wanted Jim Comey Prosecuted for Bringing Government Documents Home

In the wake of news that Trump: Ripped up documents Flushed documents Took classified documents home A number of people are making the obvious comparison between his attacks on Hillary, especially his...

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It Is Not News that Bill Barr Lied to Protect Kleptocracy

Let’s talk about what Bill Barr did in his second tenure as Attorney General. Even before Jeff Sessions was fired, Barr decided — based on the false claims he saw on Fox News — that the allegations...

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