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Echo4:
That's the single strongest indictment of Rod Rosenstein that I have read. It explains why he, himself, was in no rush to fire Mueller.

It doesn't explain why Mueller did not scream bloody murder.

And yeah, that whole explains a ton.

oilcan:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/media-mistakes/616222/

Really sharp takedown of how media failures to filter for truth may threaten our democracy.   First half of the (longish)  piece gives you the gist.

barton:
This was the feature article in the Sept 21 New Yorker,  and it's a real eye-opener on the justice system in this country,  and also the strange and cruel limbo of ICE detention.   Exposes the rot,  and sheer blinding stupidity,  and monumental waste that a bureacracy can promote when it should be protecting us from real threats.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/the-man-who-refused-to-spy

barton:
Around 500 illegal aliens captured in Washington State, including around 200 members of the royalty.  They were found hiding in a tree.

https://apnews.com/article/murder-hornet-nest-destruction-threat-6107350cecb00e7e386c953b783b6ef2

barton:
From Reuters this morning....

The cyber spies are believed to have gotten in by surreptitiously tampering with updates released by IT company SolarWinds, which serves government customers across the executive branch, the military, and the intelligence services, according to two people familiar with the matter. The trick - often referred to as a “supply chain attack” - works by hiding malicious code in the body of legitimate software updates provided to targets by third parties.

In a statement released late Sunday, the Austin, Texas-based company said that updates to its monitoring software released between March and June of this year may have been subverted by what it described as a “highly-sophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state.”

The company declined to offer any further detail, but the diversity of SolarWind’s customer base has sparked concern within the U.S. intelligence community that other government agencies may be at risk, according to four people briefed on the matter.

SolarWinds says on its website that its customers include most of America’s Fortune 500 companies, the top 10 U.S. telecommunications providers, all five branches of the U.S. military, the State Department, the National Security Agency, and the Office of President of the United States.

The breach presents a major challenge to the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden as officials investigate what information was stolen and try to ascertain what it will be used for. It is not uncommon for large scale cyber investigations to take months or years to complete.

“This is a much bigger story than one single agency,” said one of the people familiar with the matter. “This is a huge cyber espionage campaign targeting the U.S. government and its interests.”   

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