Cyber Crime

Julian Assange of Wikileaks arrested, to face extradition (Updated)

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When he was CIA Director, Mike Pompeo denounced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a “narcissist” who works in concert with Russia, and declared “It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.” CIA chief calls WikiLeaks ‘non-state hostile intelligence service’. Maybe Pompeo should have … Read more

Donald Trump’s ‘dezinformatsiya’ propaganda campaign in 2020

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Some tidbits from today’s Washington Post narrative piece on the Trump 2020 campaign, Trump’s massive reelection campaign has 2016 themes — and a 2020 infrastructure: President Trump and his advisers are launching a behemoth 2020 campaign operation combining his raw populist message from 2016 with a massive data-gathering and get-out-the-vote push aimed at dwarfing any previous … Read more

Michael Cohen to bring receipts today

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When Michael Cohen plead guilty to lying about making secret payments to Donald Trump’s illicit sexual paramours in violation of campaign finance laws, in his allocution to the court pleading guilty he stated stated that he was directed to make the payments by an unindicited co-conspirator “individual-1” — Donald Trump. In his public testimony today … Read more

Trump administration leaves the door open for social media manipulation by foreign states of 2020 election

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This past week, it was reported that Trump’s DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling: Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized, according to three current and former Department of Homeland Security officials. And now, those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare adequately … Read more

The Russia investigation is closing in

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On Tuesday, Judges Tatel, Griffith and Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a contempt citation against the unnamed defendant in In re: Grand Jury Subpoena, the case of the mystery subpoena filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against a foreign bank first reported by Politico late last year. The full ruling is here. (h/t Lawfare Blog).

This follows the Supreme Court ruling mystery company must pay fines while it challenges Mueller-related subpoena.

The Supreme Court Monday turned away an effort by an unnamed foreign government-owned corporation to resist a subpoena related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

The court’s order restores a daily fine the company will face that had been put on hold by Chief Justice John Roberts while the full court considered the issue. It is an apparent loss for the company and marks the full court’s first foray into the Mueller probe.

The order will put pressure on the company to turn over information to the grand jury or otherwise cooperate with Mueller as contempt fines continue to accumulate.

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