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The Blind Squirrel’s Nut: Chuck Grassley Unwittingly Debunks Bill Barr

Last month, Bill Barr got Federalist Faceplant Margot Cleveland to claim that Jamie Raskin was lying when he said that the lead from an informant claiming that Joe Biden had been bribed was assessed by...

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Chuck Grassley Must Think the FD-1023 Informant Is Worth Killing Off

In their panic to do something to stave off the Hunter Biden guilty plea next week — and perhaps to bail Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler (who are represented by lawyers tied to Chuck Grassley) out of...

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“Nefarious”: Chuck Grassley Panics at Possibility that Gary Shapley’s...

Chuck Grassley continues,with the desperation and recklessness that may come from being the oldest member of Congress, to try to find something scandalous in the Hunter Biden investigation that won’t...

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The Utility of the Tim Thibault Smear for Insurrectionists

Back on September 12, when Matt Gaetz’ plan to depose Kevin McCarthy was a seeming fantasy, he appeared on CNN to complain that McCarthy’s concession to open an impeachment inquiry wasn’t enough. Even...

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Gary Shapley’s Handlers Revisit Past Leak Investigations into Chuck...

According to a press release on the website for Empower Oversight–the group handling Gary Shapley’s now-debunked media tour–Empower’s founder, Jason Foster, was the subject of an FBI subpoena to Google...

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Chuck Grassley and James Comer Brag that 40 Informants Couldn’t Substantiate...

Philip Bump notes that James Comer is now fundraising not just off his own conspiracy theories, but also Chuck Grassley’s. Comer presents himself as a warrior for the truth, standing up to the media...

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Donald Trump’s DOJ Shut Down a Burisma Corruption Investigation Opened while...

Right in the middle of an impeachment for extorting Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up dirt on the Bidens and Burisma, Bill Barr’s DOJ shut down a corruption investigation into Burisma’s Mykola Zlochevsky....

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What Matt Viser Won’t Tell You about Hunter Biden, His Dad, and Burisma

Phil Rucker has wasted yet more journalistic space and time in his obsessive pursuit of Hunter Biden dick pics. Today, it comes in a 4,800-word piece from Matt Viser rehashing what we already knew...

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James Comer’s War on Christmas: The Burial Ground of a Dick Pic Impeachment

Republicans have rolled out a shiny timeline in support of their impeachment stunt. It is riddled with unsubstantiated and at times, false claims. As one example, it states as fact that a $40,000 loan...

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How One New Hampshire Voter and One Politico Journalist Refused to Hold “a...

Politico has an interesting profile of a two-time Obama voter, who will today become a three-time Trump voter, New Hampshire voter Ted Johnson. It demonstrates that Johnson is driven by the very same...

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Congress versus the Constitution: Merrick Garland’s Second Reconstruction

Merrick Garland will be confirmed without cowing to Republican efforts to equate their own assault on the Constitution with political protest. But such efforts will intensify after he assumes office,...

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Arrest First, Learn about Right Wing Terrorism Later

Christopher Wray admitted the other day that the FBI is only coming to understand right wing militias behind the January 6 attack as they arrest and then continue to investigate them. The post Arrest...

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“Oversight:” Mike Flynn Lied to Protect Barbara Ledeen, Who Then Fed...

Emails between Mike Flynn and Barbara Ledeen raise real questions about whether her disinformation campaign was an effort to protect him, or a bid to hide her own complicity. The post “Oversight:” Mike...

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The Viral Twitter Thread in Which Darrell Cooper Confesses Republicans Were...

The Twitter rant that Trump supporters claim provides an excuse for the Trump attack on the Capitol ultimately amounts to a claim that likely 2016 Russian disinformation led a bunch of Trump...

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Ten Things TV Lawyers Can Do Rather than Whinging about Merrick Garland

In the face of Republicans' unrelenting attack on democracy, expert commentators who support democracy have a choice: They can defend the rule of law and shame those who have denigrated it, or they can...

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Jeffrey Rosen Targeted Project Veritas’ Office Manager Long before Merrick...

Project Veritas has been wailing that Merrick Garland's DOJ targeted their "journalists" for months, when in fact, Jeffrey Rosen's DOJ targeted their office manager. The post Jeffrey Rosen Targeted...

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John Durham Is Hiding Evidence of Altered Notes

Just before the Presidential election, DOJ confessed that a misleading date was added to some Peter Strzok notes via a blue sticky note. In a filing in the Sussmann case, Durham submitted a black and...

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FBI Approved Igor Danchenko as a Source before It Stopped Doing Back-Door...

Until 2018, the FBI did back door searches, including on FISA material, before they made someone a Confidential Human Source. That likely included Igor Danchenko. The post FBI Approved Igor Danchenko...

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Jeremy Liggett: A Little Bitty Fly that Jim Jordan Wants to Propagandize

Expect the case of Jeremy Liggett to feature prominently in the new propaganda committee that Kevin McCarthy had to give to the insurrectionists to get elected. The post Jeremy Liggett: A Little Bitty...

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How Tucker Carlson Duped the People His Producer Called “Dumb …...

What we've learned from Tucker Carlson's effort to lie about January 6 is that Tucker is the one lying about what happened. Before Tucker's propaganda gave reason to respond, DOJ, had actually been...

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