Much More -- On The Chilling FBI/DoJ Approach, To The Reporting On The Flying Bribery Palace... From EW. Do read it all.

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Welp. The ironies here. . . never cease. I'll let EW tell the story, without additional fanfare.

Here's the latest -- from Ireland -- very well parsed, by EW -- do go read it all:

. . .Among the three stories NYT has published on Trump’s Flying Bribery Palace since DOJ dropped subpoenas targeting five journalists and their call records is one that lays out some of the ways DOJ deviated from normal leak investigation procedures before getting the subpoenas.

It elaborates on a point I made here: that Deputy US Attorney Sean Buckley, the guy who claims to be in charge of the entire leak investigation, described it as targeting a “potential leak,” not as something that had been confirmed via a criminal referral. . . .

As the story notes, both Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton testified in their confirmation hearings that nothing untoward went down with these subpoenas; Buckley’s representation to the court directly debunks Clayton’s testimony.

But Buckley just bought both men time, probably enough time for at least Clayton to get confirmed without further disclosures of DOJ’s abusive investigative methods, before Senate Republicans install the men permanently.

After DOJ withdrew the subpoenas, Judge Arun Subramanian memorialized those withdrawals, but also ordered DOJ to provide him — by Monday — with the backup to DOJ’s failures to follow normal process in obtaining third party subpoenas after the journalists had already been subpoenaed. . . . [That will never come.]

Now you know -- onward to a friend's Scottish bagpipes celebration, in a grove -- this early evening. Film at 11. Heh.

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