
The Universe of Hacked and Leaked Emails from 2016: DNC Emails
This series will try to capture what we know about four sets of emails Russians may have been dealing in 2016: the DNC emails, the Podesta emails, the DCCC emails, and the mythical emails Hillary deleted from her server.

Talking Heads Trash Talk
As I, er, complained of in the Khashoggi post, a talking head came to my hood Wednesday to "engage". That was Chuck Todd and Meet The Press. It was a sham. Most all decent seats were RSVP'd or assigned to news people. There was nothing, and…

Yevgeniy Prigozhin's Paid Trolls Prove His Legal Challenge to His Indictment To Be False
Even while Yevgeniy Prigozhin's American lawyers were arguing that he and his company, Concord Management, had no idea it was illegal to troll in the US without registering, his trolls were exhibiting that they knew that was illegal.

Going To Cut Khashoggi Into Little Pieces
As a terrible week comes to a close, Trump's supporters, both in Congress and the insane right wing press, are now out pushing scurrilous and scandalous bullshit about Mr. Khashoggi, not to mention now playing up the celebration of Trumpian…

In What May Be a Second Bid to Go after Yevgeniy Prigozhin and Vladimir Putin, DOJ Charges Prigozhin's Troll Accountant
EDVA just charged the accountant Putin crony Yevgeniy Prigozhin uses to launder his Concord Consulting money into influence operations affecting US politics. This is probably a bid to shore up the theory of the case against Prigozhin.

PSA: Don't Misunderstand the Function of a Mueller Report
Politico ran a straw man argument, assuming that everyone agrees with its author that the Mueller report will be the great reveal. That's probably not correct.

Who Told Carter Page that James Wolfe Was the Source of the FISA Leak?
Carter Page made it clear to James Wolfe that he believed he was the source for the leak of his FISA warrant.

On Corey Lewandowski's Big Legal Bills and Mueller's Deadline from Rosenstein
Quarterly political spending reports are out and they provide some hints about which current or former Trump aides have been spending a lot of time with Mueller's investigators. The NYT reported the other day that the Trump campaign has paid…

Rattled: China's Hardware Hack - PRC's Response
This is an analysis of the initial response Bloomberg Businessweek received from PRC's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to its story, The Big Hack.

Still Rattled: Fallout and Pushback
Bloomberg Businessweek's The Big Hack drew a rash of criticism from across the tech industry and info security professionals, though they remain in denial about supply chain hacks.

The First Amendment Wall-Splat that Anticipates Any Defense of a Trump Conspiracy or WikiLeaks Charge
According to the logic the Trump campaign lays out in its First Amendment response to a Democratic lawsuit pertaining to the release of the DNC emails, the Democrats' failure was in not finding foreign hackers to steal and then publish Trump's tax returns.

Guccifer 2.0 Cleaned Up His "Collusion" Three Months after the Fact
Three months after the original Guccifer 2.0 FAQ post was published, someone corrected a misuse of the word "collusion."

Homeland Security Chair Ron Johnson Thinks It Scandalous that Lawyer of Hacking Victim Talks to FBI about Hack
Ron Johnson, all riled up by reading yet another obviously problematic John Solomon piece, thinks it scandalous that the lawyer of a hacking victim talked to the FBI about that hack.

Mid October Trash Talk
Welp, we had a good discussion about the reply function yesterday, but time to move on to some proper Trash Talk.

That Ongoing Grand Jury Investigation that Michael Cohen's Loot Is Feeding
When the NYT asked for warrants targeting Michael Cohen to be unsealed, SDNY revealed there's still an ongoing grand jury investigation using those materials.

The Reply Button
Thank you readers and commenters for your relentless advisory that "The Reply Button Is Not Working". Swell, but here's the deal: we're not guarantors of blog commentary perfection for you.

Democracy Against Capitalism: Index To Posts
Links to posts on Democracy Against Capitalism.

Trump's Open Book Test Still Poses a Big Perjury Risk
Mueller has finally given Trump an open book test on his involvement in conspiracy with the Russians. In spite of the terms favorable to the President, he may not be able to avoid perjuring himself.

Mueller Juggles Plea Agreement Housekeeping
In the last two days, both Rick Gates' and Paul Manafort's plea deals have made news.
In Gates' case, his lawyers have filed an unopposed motion to liberate him from his GPS device and curfew, arguing that the leverage of the plea deal itself…

Offering John Podesta Emails While Selling Deleted Hillary Emails
Recent reporting on the Peter Smith effort to obtain Hillary's deleted emails intersects more closely with the Guccifer-led effort to dump Podesta's emails.